Poking around, trying to familiarize myself with these trails a bit prior to the TARC 50 next month (which I am in no way shape or form...
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Despite their URL, the official name of the Baltimore Marathon is the Baltimore Running Festival, which is fortunate, from an acronyming perspective. Today marks the end of week 1 of 18 weeks of preparation for that event (you can follow my training here). Today is also Father’s Day – to celebrate my dad & I went to Fenway last night to watch the Red Sox lose 4-2 to Milwaukee. We had a pretty good time, I think it’s the first game we’ve been to since 2009, when my old people came to San Francisco & we went to see the Giants beat the Braves. The highlight last night might have been the bus ride back to Allston where we sat behind two moderately to highly inebriated Irish kids, one of which was sporting a 5cm wound on his scalp from an injury of indeterminate origin. The discussion centered around whether the proper solution to such a situation was a trip to the ER to have it stitched up, or whether “lots more beers (and vodka!)” would make things better. Given their professed lack of health insurance I believe they went with the latter option. I woke up this morning wondering how that dude was feeling, & glad I was not him.
Despite LZ being gone off & about in France this past week, I’m little short for week one. Next weekend, the Warrior Dash!
To preface: it’s still early. But as of this morning the Red Sox are behind both the Kansas City Royals and the Washington Nationals in terms of winning percentage. While this may make some turncoats happy, it does not make me.
But regardless, a great ticket at no cost to myself makes for a reasonably pleasant evening, even if the bats didn’t show up and we had some fielding issues (it should not be possible to bunt yourself to third). Buchholz pitched great! The game itself was even better in that the 70% chance of thunderstorms proved to be an empty threat as they moved off to the south.
Unrelatedly – I’m testing out the new Facebook like button on the photoblog. I’m not sure if this is going to stay up or not, but am curious what people think about it. We had been using WP Likes but that plugin is frustrating in that you can’t tell who favorited something. The new facebook button (courtesy of ajb{log} works pretty well, though I’m not particularly pleased that it shows both first and last names on the posts. Facebook may support full non-anonymity but I don’t think the rest of us are quite there yet.
I don’t care. I just don’t. I cannot muster false rage or righteous indignation. Shaughnessy has enough hyperbolic bile for all of us. I have simply been too happy, have experienced too many beautiful moments because of this man’s swing to sit back and pretend like those memories are all gonna disappear.
If we’re honest, it’s not really a surprise. And until that list is fully published, it won’t surprise me when any other player in the league gets retroactively busted for some sin committed six years ago. Your favorite guy? Ten to one he’s on there too. Just love em anyway.
Lucky me got to see the Red Sox get torn up tonight. The Oakland Coliseum is my fifth MLB park, following Kaufmann Stadium in Kansas City, Wrigley Field, Busch Studium and Fenway. Without naming names or giving too much away, it’s safe to safe that that dump ranks in the bottom 20% of those in terms of charm and atmosphere. Since the Red Sox were getting their hats handed to them, I spent the bulk of the game wondering why A’s has an apostrophe in it. If you can suspend doubt to believe what randomness there is to be read, it’s not possessive, not a contraction, but rather an appropriate pluralization of a single letter. Still, it looks ridiculous. I will never wear an A’s logo.
Oh. And the Giants had a stealth bomber flyby in their game against the Dodgers. The A’s on the other hand had several commercials for fireworks that they’ll supposedly have against the Rays later in the season.
People you, me and we know are at Fenway AS WE SPEAK enjoying the remnants of a massive 1-0* offensive explosion. I am not one of those people, and odds are good that neither are you. So for us, the little people, those who fall outside the Red Sox ticket holders circle of trust, here’s some cool time-lapse footage of Fenway from Tom Guilmette.
I set the camera to 1080p 30p and ran the interval recording at 1 frame per ten seconds of time elapsed. These settings turned a 7 hour 15 minute event into a 1 minute and 27 second time lapse. The pan head moved about 160 degrees, left to right.
I ran the camera in auto iris, auto white balance and manual focus. I am still having trouble setting the wide angle 18mm lens to infinity. You will notice that this video is slightly out of focus. I think it is because I am using a cheap lens. You will notice the white balance changes as day turned to night.
*I have Toronto in my office’s 13-run MLB pool, and I can definitively say that this is their first shutout of the season, giving me a desperately need zero cell. Thanks!
Better than disgusto quote-unquote tacos, yet another parade or even Harvard streakers, it’s our special commemorative World Series edition of Deconstructing Dinner. Mad props to the female half of my krewe, Steven & Bonita too.
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