As I awoke this morning, I had the hardest time pulling myself out of bed and going to work. Hundreds of illnesses and excuses whirled through my head as I contemplated calling in sick. Unfortunately, no one would believe for a minute that I was sick today knowing full well that it is opening day. I wanted so bad to sit at home, my feet up watching a triple header on the satellite dish as baseball arrived in America for the 2000 season. I know that baseball officially kicked off last week but I have a hard time accepting the fact that opening day was held in Japan between two teams that I could care less about. At work, I set up a series of computers to stream audio from the games going on around the league. At one point I was listening to three games at the same time all while connected to ESPN’s Gamecast so I could graphically see what was happening. I will readily admit that perhaps my productivity did suffer a bit but being the positive person that I am, I like to think I was merely stress testing the network and the Internet to determine whether we had enough bandwidth to run multimedia in the corporation. I can now confidently say yes our network can safely survive the beginning of baseball. I can hardly wait for tomorrow when I won’t have to watch regular season baseball on television any more.
Take That PECOTA!
The thing about baseball is that it brings out the oddest demographic of people to follow the game. There are of course the casual fans who watch...
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