Is Baseball.
After 24 hours or so of recovery sleeping, I headed out with a bunch of people from the hostel on a mini pub-crawl. The pubs had atmosphere, the beer was cheap and we even got to see a pretty decent live band.
Towards the end of the night I made friends with [read 'arm-wrestled'] three Canadian Radio Announcers and fanatical Yankee fans. They were down from Vancouver for the baseball series against the Mariners. Excited at the prospect of an oversized mascot, they drugged me, dressed me in a Yankee's shirt and dragged me along to the game.
To say that America is baseball crazy is a significant understatement. I checked a Seattle Mariners program and found that they literally play every single day - 30 times in May. Apparently most teams rotate about 5 pitchers while all the other players have no choice but to suit up every day. The game I saw was on a Sunday afternoon and the 45,000 person stadium was almost filled. Not bad for a city of 580,000 people!
Cheers to Matt, whose expert commentary helped me better understand the intricacies of America's favourite game. I'm looking forward to catching up with the boys again when i make it up to Vancouver!
To say that America is baseball crazy is a significant understatement. I checked a Seattle Mariners program and found that they literally play every single day - 30 times in May. Apparently most teams rotate about 5 pitchers while all the other players have no choice but to suit up every day. The game I saw was on a Sunday afternoon and the 45,000 person stadium was almost filled. Not bad for a city of 580,000 people!
Cheers to Matt, whose expert commentary helped me better understand the intricacies of America's favourite game. I'm looking forward to catching up with the boys again when i make it up to Vancouver!
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