I totally lied to you about having seen our last baseball game of 2009.
We splurged — and by splurged I mean we spent ten bucks apiece, instead of $7 or $8 — on Bulls/Yankees International League Championship Series tickets for last night. Fourth row on an aisle, tucked right up against he Yanks’ dugout. God love minor league baseball, even if most of the relative big names on either of those rosters are up to the big clubs for 40 man rosters already. It rained on us, and Ian Kennedy struck out six in three innings. And of course in October there’s Carolina’s “Fall World Series”, basically glorified intra-squad scrimmages open to the public, and by the time that’s done season tickets for Carolina’s 2010 season have gone on sale, and by the time we’ve got those, well, it’s only three months or so until pitchers and catchers report and Carolina starts playing for real.
While you’re still thinking about baseball, actually, check out the Loss Column’s post on O’s rookie Nolan Reimold, including some aesthetically gorgeous (and true!) promo as the O’s front office pushes for him to be voted AL Rookie of the Year. I’m mostly interested in how lovely the promo is as a piece of, well, art, but regardless, since shep. and I saw Reimold with Norfolk in April, he’s very quietly become a cornerstone of a very talented, very very young baseball team that still doesn’t quite know how to put it all together yet. Should Reimold really be AL ROY? No, probably not. Does he give me a hell of a lot of hope for the future of the Orioles, even though they’ve been even more of a bipolar trainwreck this year than usual? Yeah. Yeah, he does.
And also speaking of our youth movement, please to be enjoying this video of Matthew Richard Wieters hitting a walk off home run to win the game for the O’s last night. If you let it keep playing, it’ll auto-load video of the Wiets throwing Carl Crawford out twice, after. Which is also pretty awesome. That’s our boy.
Man, I wish there was baseball was year round.
brand new kind of photography 