I must admit that being in two fantasy baseball leagues this year has me a bit more excited about baseball season starting than I\u2019ve been in past years.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re going with some friends in a couple weeks to see the local Oakland A\u2019s take on the Red Sox, which promises to be a gluttonous all-you-can-eat night of bacchanalian delights.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take a break in the action to sigh at the fact that one of my pitchers, Atlanta SP1 Brett Myers has already let up three home runs after recording only four outs. Keep it up!<\/p>\n
I also purchase 5 pairs of tickets for Katie and I to go to a bunch of other Oakland A\u2019s games that were on their promotional $2 ticket nights. Excepting for the fact that the ticket \u201cconvenience\u201d and \u201cprocessing\u201d fees are more than the actual ticket price in those cases, it was a frugal way of promising ourselves five nights at the Oakland ballpark this year. The decision was partially influenced by the fact that our house is a mere BART stop away from the stadium.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m excited because Matt Holliday, who is on both of my fantasy teams, plays for a local team. Additionally, the A\u2019s rotation \u2013 while currently in a bit of disarray \u2013 is fielding a few youngsters with huge potential. I hope that we\u2019ll get to see them pitch at some point this season.<\/p>\n
Katie is always excited about going to the ballpark (and rightfully so) because you get to throw peanut shells on the ground, an activity that is not available in most of the United States.<\/p>\n
This excitement may fade, but the anticipation of a season of drama and injuries and pennant races is something we should all try to hold on to. I know it\u2019s hard when you\u2019re from Pittsburgh and the biggest story that might involve your baseball team this year is the fact that they lost a preseason game to Manatee Community College. NO LIE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Still, anything could happen. This is baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I must admit that being in two fantasy baseball leagues this year has me a bit more excited about baseball season starting than I\u2019ve been in past years. We\u2019re going with some friends in a couple weeks to see the local Oakland A\u2019s take on the Red Sox, which promises to be a gluttonous all-you-can-eat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-baseball","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}