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One of life's little pleasures...
Not being a football fan, or soccer
fan for any US blog readers, I successfully managed to exorcise myself
of that particular obsession years ago after spending much of my formative
years following Portsmouth FC fruitlessly around the country, I know enjoy
a game or two of baseball.
Having dismissed the game as being nothing
more than "just grown up rounders" I now love sitting in the
cheap seats at Turner Field on a balmy sunny evening watching a good game
of baseball with a beer and a bag of ball nuts.
Getting hooked on baseball kind of crept
up on me whilst travelling around the USA with a previous job.
Sitting in a hotel room of an evening
or more usually over a long, homesick weekend, I would inevitably end up
watching some game or other on the TV with a beer and a box of Dunkin Donuts.
After skitting all over the US on business
and pleasure my family and I fell in love with Georgia, and in particular
the North Georgia Mountains, and we've ended up following the 'home' team,
the Atlanta Braves.
When we're in the US taking our annual
holiday, we always try to catch as many games as we can, last year managing
to catch three home games at Turner Field too !!!
Slowly getting used to the flow of the
game and the terminology etc has been a long job, but after following the
Braves for about five years now, I adore it.
It's always tough coming home after
the holidays and having to suffer long and painful withdrawal symptoms
of not being able to see ANY baseball whatsoever in the UK is tough.
But Channel 5 have started to push baseball
here in the UK and they screen a Sunday night game at 1:05 am. A bit late
I know, but better that than nothing at all.
Obviously they can't show any bias towards
a particular team, but it's so, so nice when they show a Braves game.
Last night... yup, it was the Braves
vs Washington.
So, out with the ol' blank VHS tape,
set up the timer and fingers crossed I'll have taped the whole game, normally
around 3 hours, for digesting over the next few nights.
I've avoided checking score too, so
I can enjoy the game.
"Take me out to the ball park....."
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