Wednesday, April 06, 2005
ONE DOWN
People like to make a lot of the first game of the season (see The LA Times today, as Richard points out), so let's try not to do that. It's a human reaction, of course, to assign maximum value to the most recent event, especially when we haven't had baseball for so long.
I've come to a place where the season doesn't really end for me; the games just go on pause for awhile while some rosters reshuffle. Thankfully, most of the Angels seem to be on the same page. Going back to the ALDS, Vlad homered to right-center on two consecutive swings, and The Big Mango had a typically queasy but effective game.
However, I must also admit that I wore the same shirt yesterday as I did a year ago on opening day, and can't help but notice that Bartolo Colon victories in the first game of the season involving the Angels turned out quite nicely in 2004 and 2002. Despite the ridiculous 0-15 stretch Angel batters put up in the middle of the game, nothing discouraging happened last night. Now there are only 161 more.
People like to make a lot of the first game of the season (see The LA Times today, as Richard points out), so let's try not to do that. It's a human reaction, of course, to assign maximum value to the most recent event, especially when we haven't had baseball for so long.
I've come to a place where the season doesn't really end for me; the games just go on pause for awhile while some rosters reshuffle. Thankfully, most of the Angels seem to be on the same page. Going back to the ALDS, Vlad homered to right-center on two consecutive swings, and The Big Mango had a typically queasy but effective game.
However, I must also admit that I wore the same shirt yesterday as I did a year ago on opening day, and can't help but notice that Bartolo Colon victories in the first game of the season involving the Angels turned out quite nicely in 2004 and 2002. Despite the ridiculous 0-15 stretch Angel batters put up in the middle of the game, nothing discouraging happened last night. Now there are only 161 more.
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