BEEEIISSSSBOOOLLLLL!

I gotta make this quick, the A's are about to come on:

Something about April always makes me perk right up. Spring has sprung (cliché alert) and I'm all ready to go out and play. My hormones are raging and I feel like I can get any girl I want (yeah right,) I want to go run for miles and lift heavy things to make myself feel manly. But, most of all, I want to play ball! Baseball's here. And I freakin love it.

America's pastime is, by far, my favorite sport, both to watch and to play. There's nothing like sitting a the ball park with a beer and a dog and watching your team play. True, I've never actually had a beer at the park, but I'm guessing they're pretty tasty. Maybe someday I'll make it to an A's game without my dad. I have, however, downed ten hot dogs in one game...because when they're a dollar, why not?

Some of my earliest memories growing up involved the Oakland Coliseum. It didn't used to be massively ugly monstrosity that it is now, thanks to Al Davis. It used to be a great ballpark for baseball, and had a gorgeous backdrop of the Oakland hills out to center field. The bleachers were actually bleachers, and there wasn't an ugly orange seat that sat empty. The A's fell into a lull in the mid 90's, but picked it back up in the early 2000's, making several playoff appearances, and even got to the ALCS in '06. In September of 2002, I got to see them win their 20th game in a row, an AL record, and it was probably the most dramatic game I've ever seen, ending on a walkoff homer by Scott Hatteberg. The game even got like a whole chapter about it in the book Moneyball. My A's love runs deep.

This season the white elephants started off 4-1, which is a shock and has me hoping they can continue the magic. Of course they lost the next game to go 4-2, but today they have a chance to take the first series they play in Anaheim from those freakin Angels. Also, since my good friend Taylor finally stopped being a moron and proposed to his long-time girlfriend Carly, I'll be heading home in June for the wedding. I decided to see if the A's were in town that weekend, and was bummed to see they were playing an away series. Then I noticed that series was against San Francisco! So it looks like I'll get to catch a game when I'm home, and then head out to the city for some nasty Chinese food. Times is goood!