Baseball at the Angel Stadium

Time for finally getting some summer holiday pictures together.  One of the highlights of my holiday was watching my first game of baseball.  Not entirely sure of everything that was going on but absolutely loved it.  Thought I might be going to see LA Dodgers but the local knowledge was for LA Angels and so we rocked up there instead.  The whole family enjoyed it and with some of the games we saw on TV as well, we were hooked.  Was pleased to see '42', a film about racism and baseball, on the plane home and with the headlines that a British politician made about 'Bongo Bongo Land', it should be a must see film for one and all.  

Further joy was had on returning to find Major League Baseball on BT Sport.  Despite (or because of) the Ashes series, and seeing a lot of Exeter City this year, this was my favourite sports event of the year.  

Further thoughts here: Like the Ashes with hot dogs.  This is, after all, supposed to be about the pictures.  

It's like the Ashes with hot dogs...

The Angels Stadium - one of my favourite pictures from holiday

The Red Sox did it.  Or rather, David Ortiz did.  A convincing 4-2 win over St Louis and I confess that I watched pretty much all of it.  Great stuff.


We're talking baseball, in case you're wondering.  I don't fully understand how it works but having seen a game in the summer, I was immediately hooked.  A friend took us to see the LA Angels.  We chose Mike Trout as our favourite player before we saw him play because how can you not root for a guy with a name like that?  Turns out he's their star player but we didn't know that - honest.   "We" beat the Toronto Blue Jays.  A brilliant evening that the whole family enjoyed.  Normally that would be the end of it but on returning home I found that, due to a BT broadband line, I was able to watch baseball here too.  Hence being able to watch the World Series.  Had we made the trip to watch the Dodgers instead we'd have had a longer season as they were contenders at one point.  But you know how it is, support your local team.      

I see that there is a South West League over here.  It comprises four teams, Bristol, Plymouth, Exeter and (oddly) Torbay.  If I was ten (or twenty) years younger...  As it is maybe I'll take a camera along sometime.