What We Mean When We Say "Pitch"

[sachem_head]

With the Red Sox (and the rest of MLB) in Spring Training (our diaper lady was just bemoaning John Lester's recent four-run outing), I watched the American remake of Fever Pitch last night. In the original movie (starring Colin Firth), the main character is obsessed with Arsenal, the football club in London -- as in Nick Hornsby's novel, from which

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Moving on to baseball.

[redbaydreamer]

I really couldn't wrap much interest around the NCAA Basketball finals this year. No team that interested me much was doing well. I guess watching OU play OSU might have been cool, but.... I was thinking about Baseball the other night and how much we enjoyed watching the Cardinals make their way to the World Series and beyond. It was fun, what baseball is all about. But then I remembered that we only have local channels now and seeing the Cardinals play before the post season is probably only going to happen in a bar. I am not enough of a fan to just pay for more channels in order to see them, but I might just try to figure out when dinner at Applebees or some such place might get me a chance to see them play. But then I don't think school teachers are a lower class, so I am not the normal American, I guess.