My Opening Day Odyssey

[OFFNY]

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Although I was not at today's game in Baltimore, I nonetheless had a very peculiar experience in my quest (and determination) to watch the Orioles' first contest of the season against the Blue Jays.

It was 2:30 PM, half an hour before the first pitch, and all of a sudden my Internet service went out. I called the cable company, and they said that it should be resolved by 6:23 PM ......... 6:23 PM ??? The game will be over by then !!!

 

So ........ I was thinking of what sports bar I could go to in order to watch the game AND keep track of Kevin Gausman's pitch-count for each and every inning that he was in the game. Brewster probably has a couple of sports bars, but because of the fact that I had no Internet service, and I couldn't go on line to see where they were. The closest sports bar THAT I KNEW ABOUT was 20 minutes away, on the border of Danbury, CT and Bethel, CT.

 

So I got in my car at about 2:45 PM, and hoped that I could get there in time for the first inning. Since Danbury, CT is Metsland and Yankeeland, all of their TV  sets were on the Mets-Braves game, so I had to ask one of the waitresses if she could turn on the Orioles-Blue Jays game. She did, although I had to settle to listening to the Mets-Braves game audio. Lo and behold, when she got the channel for the game turned on, Gausman was about to face the 2nd batter in the top of the 1st inning after he had ceded a single to the first man that he faced. So, I simply started counting all of Gausman's pitches from that point onward for each individual inning, and subtracted that from his overall total after he was removed from the game to know how many pitches that Gausman had thrown to the first batter of the game that singled.

 

Mission accomplished. 0 

 

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[callahan09]

Sounds kind of exciting actually.

Curious, do you not have a smartphone that can allow you to search for a sports bar?

[OFFNY]

17 minutes ago, callahan09 said:

 

Sounds kind of exciting, actually.

Curious, do you not have a smartphone that can allow you to search for a sports bar?

 

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No, I don't.

I just have a regular cell phone.

 

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[MDtransplant757]

I was stuck in my Astronomy lab. If those things didn't matter, I'd be at home for first pitch

[schittenden]

10 hours ago, OFFNY said:

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No, I don't.

I just have a regular cell phone.

 

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What is this "regular cell phone" of which you speak?

[OFFNY]

7 hours ago, schittenden said:

 

What is this "regular cell phone" of which you speak?

 

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I don't know. I just use it for calls made and received, and for leaving and receiving messages. It doesn't take pictures, and I don't have internet access on it. I just buy a phone which takes the same sim card as the previous one when I need a new one, which is pretty rare. My previous cell phone actually survived the washing machine. I continued to use it for several more years before it finally died.

 

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[Redskins Rick]

7 hours ago, schittenden said:

What is this "regular cell phone" of which you speak?

ROTFLMAO!!!!