Tuesday night, I made my first try at attending a weeknight Baltimore Orioles home game as a Northern Virginia resident. According to O’s owner Peter Angelos, this has always been an easy, convenient and reasonable thing to do, and therefore it was completely unnecessary for Washington to have its own team.
So let’s look at the timeline for a 1905 (7:05 pm) start at Camden Yards.
24 August 2006 / 0 Comments / Tags: baseball, travel, novaI could have been a Mets fan. In late 1988, I took notice of Gregg Jefferies (talk about mistakes) as the Richmond Braves’ season ended, after seeing baseball in person for the first time that summer. For Halloween, I demanded to be the Mets’ rookie shortstop, and my mom dutifully ironed a number 9 onto the back of the pinstriped shirt we had bought in the mall a few months before. A year later, though I would decry the injustice of Jerome Walton winning the National League Rookie of the Year award, I really couldn’t have cared less about the pride of Flushing, Queens. I was a nine-year-old kid. Easy come, easy go, I guess.
Sports team loyalty is like that. Though people try to establish rules for sports fandom, the actual practice of choosing and holding an allegiance varies quite a bit. Just take a look at the hockey blogs riffing on this theme:
So here goes. Read More »
22 August 2006 / 0 Comments / Tags: hockey, baseball, football