Apparently there's one more day in September this year: October 1st.
I still haven't figured out what to do on off-days. (On a random note,
piney61 has - check out the picspams she posts when the Sox take a day off!) I suppose I can do my homework without any distractions, but tonight there is a very exciting distraction that I will undeniably be paying attention to - the one-game playoff between the Padres and the Rockies.
I went to a Rockies game once. My family has some old friends who moved out to Colorado who we went to visit two summers ago (the summer of '06), and we bought tickets for a Diamondbacks-Rockies game at Coors Field. It rained that morning, but the game wasn't rained out. I was raised in a Mets family, so I happened to own a Kaz Matsui shirt, which I wore to the game that day. Kaz didn't play, much to my disappointment. I'd always had a soft spot for him, even when most of the Mets fans didn't.
(I really have a thing for second basemen, now that I think about it. Hmmm. By the way, Jed Lowrie, one of my favorite prospects, played second base at Stanford. As I mentioned a few entries ago, he and Pedroia sort of traded positions after college - Pedroia was a shortstop at ASU.)
I have the starters for our ALDS games written down on my calendar. Seriously, if you looked at my wall calendar and found October 3rd, you'd only see one word written there: Beckett. Likewise, Matsuzaka is on the 5th and Schilling is on the 7th. This week, my college has its reading days, so I have Monday and Tuesday off from class. That means I can focus on baseball all weekend and then get back to work on Tuesday, a date on which the Sox and Angels will not play. (If a fourth game is needed, it'll be on Monday, and the fifth game would be on Wednesday.)
In unrelated news, I took my Japanese midterm today, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it was. Unfortunately, I managed to embarrass myself by forgetting how to write one of the hiragana characters needed to spell out the word 'baseball' in Japanese (yakyuu). The number of times I have written 'yakyuu' is ridiculous, so the fact that I totally blanked on 'ya' is incredibly humiliating. I don't believe I have told this story yet to anyone but
hanachan01 (in an e-mail), but my Japanese professor was using these self-made flash cards, and in the upper right corner of the one with the picture of a batter at the plate there was a man playing ping-pong. I stared blankly for a moment, then dropped my head so that I wouldn't have to explain why I was laughing to anyone. (I am pretty sure I'm the only person in my Japanese class who knows about the Dustin Pedroia vs. Brady Quinn ping-pong saga, anyhow.)
I'm keeping myself busy at the moment writing a sociology essay and skimming the internet for anything I can find on the aforementioned Jed Lowrie. I genuinely like him. Really. He'll probably be getting one more year in Pawtucket, but perhaps he'll see some playing time if something happens to Lugo or Cora next season (heaven forbid anything happens, of course, but it did work for Jacoby Ellsbury). A part of me would love to see a Pac-10 middle infield, actually.
Speaking of Pac-10, I'll leave you with this: here's Jed with Jacoby (Jed's on the right, obviously). Enjoy, and don't forget to keep an eye on that one-game playoff...
piney61 has - check out the picspams she posts when the Sox take a day off!) I suppose I can do my homework without any distractions, but tonight there is a very exciting distraction that I will undeniably be paying attention to - the one-game playoff between the Padres and the Rockies.
I went to a Rockies game once. My family has some old friends who moved out to Colorado who we went to visit two summers ago (the summer of '06), and we bought tickets for a Diamondbacks-Rockies game at Coors Field. It rained that morning, but the game wasn't rained out. I was raised in a Mets family, so I happened to own a Kaz Matsui shirt, which I wore to the game that day. Kaz didn't play, much to my disappointment. I'd always had a soft spot for him, even when most of the Mets fans didn't.
(I really have a thing for second basemen, now that I think about it. Hmmm. By the way, Jed Lowrie, one of my favorite prospects, played second base at Stanford. As I mentioned a few entries ago, he and Pedroia sort of traded positions after college - Pedroia was a shortstop at ASU.)
I have the starters for our ALDS games written down on my calendar. Seriously, if you looked at my wall calendar and found October 3rd, you'd only see one word written there: Beckett. Likewise, Matsuzaka is on the 5th and Schilling is on the 7th. This week, my college has its reading days, so I have Monday and Tuesday off from class. That means I can focus on baseball all weekend and then get back to work on Tuesday, a date on which the Sox and Angels will not play. (If a fourth game is needed, it'll be on Monday, and the fifth game would be on Wednesday.)
In unrelated news, I took my Japanese midterm today, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it was. Unfortunately, I managed to embarrass myself by forgetting how to write one of the hiragana characters needed to spell out the word 'baseball' in Japanese (yakyuu). The number of times I have written 'yakyuu' is ridiculous, so the fact that I totally blanked on 'ya' is incredibly humiliating. I don't believe I have told this story yet to anyone but
hanachan01 (in an e-mail), but my Japanese professor was using these self-made flash cards, and in the upper right corner of the one with the picture of a batter at the plate there was a man playing ping-pong. I stared blankly for a moment, then dropped my head so that I wouldn't have to explain why I was laughing to anyone. (I am pretty sure I'm the only person in my Japanese class who knows about the Dustin Pedroia vs. Brady Quinn ping-pong saga, anyhow.)
I'm keeping myself busy at the moment writing a sociology essay and skimming the internet for anything I can find on the aforementioned Jed Lowrie. I genuinely like him. Really. He'll probably be getting one more year in Pawtucket, but perhaps he'll see some playing time if something happens to Lugo or Cora next season (heaven forbid anything happens, of course, but it did work for Jacoby Ellsbury). A part of me would love to see a Pac-10 middle infield, actually.
Speaking of Pac-10, I'll leave you with this: here's Jed with Jacoby (Jed's on the right, obviously). Enjoy, and don't forget to keep an eye on that one-game playoff...
