My boy Dan Haren of the Oakland Athletics is starting tonight’s MLB All Star game and you couldn’t make me miss it if you, well. I don’t know, you just won’t be able to make me miss it.
I’ve loved Oakland baseball since I was a tike living in Fremont, California in the 1980s. You could get on the BART train in be at the Coliseum in 20 minutes. In ‘88 an ‘89 I couldn’t begin to tell you how many weeks I spent bugging my mom to take to me games, because watching the Bash Brothers and Dave Stewart and Dennis Eckersley and Rickey Henderson on TV just wasn’t good enough.
Well, fast forward 18 years (geez) and I’m nearly salivating over the chance to see on TV not even my whole team, but just one of the players. Yeah, Haren is the only representative from Oakland playing for the AL team, but he’s a good one.
It might be the only time this year I’ll actually get to see him play, since ESPN doesn’t see fit to actually show baseball games between teams other than the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox (seriously, I have a theory that you could call ESPN’s head office to complain about this and they’d go “there are other baseball teams?” before hanging up and putting on some ridiculous NFL preview smack dab in the middle of July. But anyway.) and the schedule on their web site shows that Oakland games will not be televised even once this year by ESPN.
Unless of course, they make the playoffs. Not looking too good.
So, I get to enjoy an inning or two of baseball tonight. Finally!
I promise I’ll start blogging soon about things that matter. I’m just getting started on this thing.
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