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Halfway Around The World, The Sport's Section Baseball Fan

It's that time of year again. Although the NBA season has not ended, sports this time of year are rather dismal. Sure you have golf, and the NBA Playoffs are coming up (NOTE TO NBA: 8 teams in the playoffs is PLENTY!!!), but beyond that, you have baseball, and yah, more golf. Along with a host of other meaningless sports that no one really cares about.

For me, I haven't every been too much into baseball. That being said though, I do follow the Oakland A's in term of the 'boxscore', as in, I am a statistics fan, I enjoy breaking down the stats from the games the next day more than I like actually watching the game itself. I do enjoy the game itself more than I did when I was younger, when I found baseball to be about as boring as watching grass grow.

The A's normally played late at night my time, being a couple of hours behind me, pacific time, and playing their games usually around 7 to 8 pm their time, I wouldn't get the scores till around midnight or so. Over here in Iraq however, it's really different, because of course I open up Yahoo sports around noon here and I'll find the game listed for today that is not yet being played, and so I click on "Yesterday" to get the score for a game that was just played in the last couple of hours my time.

Then I think "well, tonite's game" as though a game will be played in just a few hours, when in fact the next game isn't going to be over with for another 20 to 24 hours, depending on when I am looking at the LAST game's score. Oh man I get confused writing this myself.

About the A's, they are really doing well considering they lost two bonified all star pitchers in Tim Hudson and Mark Mulder. But youngsters like Joe Blanton have stepped up big time, and Houston Street is a fabulous reliever. I haven't had much of a chance to really look into the added offense on the team, oh well.

I hope my guys by the bay do well, and that they do better than Shoe's guys by the OTHER side of the bay haha!!

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It’s true the way I feel
Was promised by your face
The sound of your voice
Painted on my memories
Even if you’re not with me

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