The World Series starts tonight. Neither the A's nor the Guardians are in it, so it is a safe bet that I won't be going to any more ballgames this year, which means it's time for my annual tradition of counting up all the games I've been to both this year and lifetime ( Read more... )

I was in San Francisco from September 16 through 20 for work. My coworkers Vivek, Steve and I convened by the bay for Dreamforce, Salesforce's annual conference. We attended sessions, met with prospects and clients, and did conference things. More interestingly, we took a bunch of customers out for dinner and had some fantastic meals ( Read more... )

On Saturday, June 22, I went to the Guardians game with my friend Todd at Progressive Field. I'm not going to start writing about every single baseball game I go to, or at least not today, but somewhat uniquely, this ballgame had a concert after it. Obviously we had to stick around to see DJ Diesel spin records and entertain the crowd ( Read more... )

Last year I restarted my streak of attending the Guardians home opener. Or if you prefer, since the name was changed from the Indians to the Guardians in 2022, it was my very first Guardians home opener. Either way, I was back at the home opener for the first time since 2019 and for the 16th time in the last 21 years. Why then, did I skip the 2024 ( Read more... )

I spent a lot of time playing youth sports as a kid. For baseball alone ( Read more... )

The 2022 season was the worst Oakland A's season of my lifetime. The 2023 season said "hold my beer!" and sunk to new depths of terrible baseball. In 2023 the A's ( Read more... )

On comparatively short notice, I bought a ticket to see The Baseball Project at the Beachland Ballroom on Thursday, August 24. A major part of the appeal was that much like The Beths, a whole bunch of my friends were at the show, including EJ, Lazybones (and her mom), Colleen & Kevin, Brandt & Candy and Ed ( Read more... )

The first memory I have of paying attention to professional sports was in the fourth grade. I've read that most people become sports fans because of their parents, but my baseball obsession certainly did not come from my parents. My father was happy to play catch with me in the backyard, but that's as far as his interest in baseball went, and that ( Read more... )

Some six year ago, I finished my baseball stadium tour by visiting the last four parks I hadn't visited in one trip to California. At that time, I called out several potential future options that were on the radar. Of those options, only one has come true in the intervening gap. The Texas Rangers built a brand new stadium called Globe Life Field. ( Read more... )

On Friday, April 7, I went to my first home opener since 2019. My buddy EJ and I sat 300 section over right field, one level up from where we sat for my last game of 2022, a playoff victory over the Yankees. This was the first time I'd sat in that section in I don't know how long - at least since before I had season tickets in 2014, and maybe a lot ( Read more... )