Baseball

Today I learned about baseball. I know that if you’re my family, or anything like my family, you probably just cringed. Baseball is not, and never has been, my sport. I don’t like playing, and I don’t particularly like watching, because of the minimal activity level. It’s simply not exciting for me to spend three hours watching one person throw a ball and one person swing a bat. I’m not trying to insult anyone who enjoys the sport, I’m simply trying to convey my viewpoint. Given this background, the fact that I spent 3 hours at a Royals game tonight is probably rather surprising. My community was fortunate enough to obtain free tickets to the event and so we went together! Fortunately, the weather was absolutely beautiful and the ballpark was really well-designed and quite wonderful (see pictures). The reason I learned so much about baseball was Aimee. This was her first baseball game ever! So we spent a good portion of the beginning of the game texting Ross all sorts of baseball questions, such as: What’s a good batting average? What are other ways to measure baseball greatness? What does RBI stand for and how do you calculate it? And so on. All in all, a great, late night! (Though it makes getting up at 6:45am difficult.)