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Five Years Ago

Five years ago tomorrow, I watched my first, and as yet only, live game of baseball. I had opportunities to watch a game in New York the previous year, but I decided, having followed the Angels since baseball was first broadcast live in the UK in 1996, I wanted my first game to be at Angel Stadium. A two day detour from a working vacation at the poker World Series in Las Vegas provided the opportunity.

It is unlikely that anyone there that night, apart from me, has any recollection of the game, a 7-6 victory over the Tigers. No-one hit a home run, Sele pitched like Sele, most of the runs came via the sac fly, and the most exciting event was Julio Ramirez trying to convert a triple into an inside the park home run, and being thrown out by fifteen feet.

And it's unlikely that many of the fifteen thousand people there gave the Angels (16 - 16 at the start of play) much chance of going all the way in 2002, but the rest, as they say, is history.

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What were you doing workwise there?  Are you a professional card player?

Nice post by the way.

Angels Baseball 2007!............I need a drink.

by hauldog on May 8, 2007 3:32 PM PDT reply actions  

If you play poker
cupie and I will happily take your money, go ahead, chase a flush...

by Rev Halofan on May 8, 2007 3:42 PM PDT reply actions  

OK
That's my flight paid for!
5,444.82 miles from Home Plate

by UK Halo on May 8, 2007 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions  

Happy Anniversary!
Unfortunately, after 1986, I burned all of my ticket stubs and made it a policy to destroy any ticket stubs right at the conclusion of any game (except for Hooters' victories (10 runs or more gets you 10 free hot wings at Hooters)).  This was for superstitious reasons.

So I have no idea what games I have been to...  

But, I might like to think I was one of the few in attendance at that game in '02.  It sure as heck sounds like one of the 15 - 20 I attended that year as I usually used to stick to weeknight games due to lighter crowds.  It was an attempt to get the $3 dugout seats -- AAA discount on nosebleeders and then a game of "dodge the old fogey ushers" to sit within a few rows of the dugout!

'86 never happened!

by Downing Rules on May 8, 2007 4:48 PM PDT reply actions  

15,003 in attendance
almost sounds absurd by today's standards, just five years later.
"When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know" - Bill Parcells

by johnnyangel101 on May 8, 2007 9:03 PM PDT reply actions  

great post!
I enjoyed reading it.
With win-win-win, we all win!

by lightupthehalo on May 8, 2007 10:53 PM PDT reply actions  

I remember...
when seats behind homeplate were 15$.

I remember... when the Rams played in Anaheim Stadium.

I remember... when Tim Salmon wasn't even an Angel yet.

Of course, I was too young and inattentive to appreciate any of this, but I was there. God DAMN do I need to get back.

Also, my record last summer was an abysmal 2-10 at Angels games (2 away @ LAD -- both loses). I'll have to get to me some wins this summer.

by shiftyeyedgoat on May 9, 2007 4:18 AM PDT reply actions  

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