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... )

After the depressing 2020 partial season without fans and the arguably more personally depressing 2021 season I didn't attend, baseball was back in 2022! I didn't make it to the home opener, but I did make it to a total of 12 games over the season ( Read more... )

I already cited my top 10 "I was there" moments for baseball. I'm going to touch briefly on five more sports moments that I was present for. These are also in no particular order.

1. I have only been to one NFL game in my life. That game happened to be the first Monday Night Football in the history of the "new" expansion Browns on Monday, December ( Read more... )

There's a meme that jokes about how power comes from bragging which concerts you've attended. In a similar vein, for years I've alluded to a long ago post that highlighted some of the more important sports events I've attended. I haven't been able to find this post, and I've come to believe that I never actually wrote it, just imagined it. It's ( Read more... )

According to the latest calendar from The Cleveland Cinematheque, Saturday, March 29, was the worst attended day in the Cinematheque's history. They showed Kubrick's Fear and Desire and The Good, the Bad, the Weird and got only 12 people for both. That weekend was the Cleveland International Film Festival and there was also a blizzard, so this poor ( Read more... )