Oakland A’s v Boston Red Sox
Aug 29th, 2006 by Ashley
{Sport’s infiltrating into my life.}
Our plan was to visit Stanford yesterday evening. Huang kindly promised to give us a tour. But The night before we changed our mind, thinking, it’d be a shame going back without watching an MLB game. So our understanding tour guide agreed to postponed our tour to Tuesday, and we bought three tix to the A’s v Red Sox game!
I was kinda reluctant, to be honest. I wasn’t feeling well and I was never a big fan of baseball (except for the four years in college). But I had to be there in order to take Will Call ticket no matter what, so there I went. I took Bart instead of driving, knowing on game day the traffic might be a hassle. On my way, there were plenty of A’s fan and some Red Sox fan aboard. When I arrived Coliseum, it was crowded and people filled the tube leads to the stadium. All green and yellow in sight, strangely, I started to grow excited. “I’m going to a ball game!”
The day was really nice, but trust me it was chilly. I had a long sleeve T-shirt and a jacket. Then I put on another sweater with hat and my Chelsea scarf. I looked totally out of place. “Wearing Chelsea scarf to A’s and Red Sox game? What’s she thinking?!” I know, even wearing Raider shirts make more sense. But what the heck, I’m proudly out of place. And I was kinda happy that some Red Sox fan recognized Chelsea.
The first two innings were fast. But in the third, A’s started the kill. The old gentleman sitting next to me were die-hard A’s fan from Hawaii. He was so busy cheering and yelling and high fiving with other A’s fan, but he still took some time to chitchat with me. (Though I was kinda afriad that he might hit me when I cheer for Red Sox. btw, we totally sat on the enemy’s side.) Anyway, I managed to hide my allegiance so he was fairly nice to me. (I’m not a real Red Sox fan anyway. I just support whatever team that’s from east coast cuz I hate this freaking California.) He also told me that there was a Raider game last Friday, which explain the yard marking on the grass.
Til the 8th inning, Red Sox did managed some great catch, but 3 up 3 down didn’t help the game. So we left at the begining of the 9th inning, by then it was already 9-0, cuz we believe the Red Sox was not going to revive all of a sudden (though J said, baseball games begin on 9th inning second half, clearly there wouldn’t be a 9th second half.) and by leaving early we can avoid the traffic. It was a nice experience overall. Oh, and did I mention that A’s hit 3 home runs?
There were 30109 people last night in McAfee