6-14, Stomper Steals Show From A's Game.
(Friday night)
I'm waiting for the train home at the Coliseum's BART station, 11pm. The cement seats smell like urine and I haven't quite come to terms with being in third place - the playoffs nowhere in sight.
We saw it coming. The Rangers have out played us before. In fact, every time that we've played them this year...
But let's go back to a time when the A's first landed in Tokyo as spring training's darlings; looking good in custom suits, ready to take on 2007's World Champions, and win the series. When summer had just begun and we were ESPN's top team. Back when we could have done it, when the fan's had faith and when Stomper, the A's mascot, was merely a side
show.
Stomer's got some hot dance moves. He and some kid did a little hip hop dance show that ended with the kid doing a flip over Stomper's shoulder. It was so sweet.
In fact, it might have been the only sweet aspect to tonights game against the Rangers where the A's just gave up half way through and started playing like the Giants. Bay Area bottom feeders shoveling dirt over our graves one pitch and missed catch at a time. Who cares about the A's now?
(Saturday Morning)
Okay, let's do the numbers.
The Game: Comparing the Alexa rankings (the lower the ranking = the higher the site's traffic) of the top sites from google web searches. Whoever has the lowest total ranking wins!
Oakland Athletics Alexa rankings of top Google Web Search:
1. mlb.com #208
2. wikipedia.org #8
3. go.com #65
4. cnn.com #53
I'm waiting for the train home at the Coliseum's BART station, 11pm. The cement seats smell like urine and I haven't quite come to terms with being in third place - the playoffs nowhere in sight.
We saw it coming. The Rangers have out played us before. In fact, every time that we've played them this year...
But let's go back to a time when the A's first landed in Tokyo as spring training's darlings; looking good in custom suits, ready to take on 2007's World Champions, and win the series. When summer had just begun and we were ESPN's top team. Back when we could have done it, when the fan's had faith and when Stomper, the A's mascot, was merely a side
show. Stomer's got some hot dance moves. He and some kid did a little hip hop dance show that ended with the kid doing a flip over Stomper's shoulder. It was so sweet.
In fact, it might have been the only sweet aspect to tonights game against the Rangers where the A's just gave up half way through and started playing like the Giants. Bay Area bottom feeders shoveling dirt over our graves one pitch and missed catch at a time. Who cares about the A's now?
(Saturday Morning)
Okay, let's do the numbers.
The Game: Comparing the Alexa rankings (the lower the ranking = the higher the site's traffic) of the top sites from google web searches. Whoever has the lowest total ranking wins!
Oakland Athletics Alexa rankings of top Google Web Search:
1. mlb.com #208
2. wikipedia.org #8
3. go.com #65
4. cnn.com #53
5. scout.com #1,499
6. yahoo.com #1
7. athleticsnation.com #143,039 (Click this link! It will take you to an awesome post!!)
8. sfgate.com #863
9. sportsline.com #591
10. shop.mlb.com #208
Total: 146,317
Texas Rangers Alexa rankings of top Google Web Search:
1. mlb.com #208
2. txdps.state.tx.us #2572 (Dept of Public Safety website)
3. texasranger.org #946,308 (Texas Ranger museum)
4. imdb.com #33
5. cnn.com #53
6. texasrangers.org #5,363,006 (totally awesome site!)
7. go.com #65
8. wikipedia.org #8
9. yahoo.com #1
10. lsjunction.com #451,765
Total: 6,763,939
A's win! But I'm mad that none of these mentioned that an orange cat had ran across the field in the 4th inning last night.
Other than that, this was fun. I got to learn the history of the actual Texas rangers from this google search. I'm reading Blood Meridian by Cormick McCarthy, so I'm pretty into it -- not enough to be a fan, of course.
Last night, I wore my glasses and brought my laptop to the game. At the restaurant in the coliseum, the guys at the table next to me asked if I was a scout. My laptop's about 7 years old with neon pink duct tape holding the battery in place, but I pretended that I was a scout anyway. I work with the Nationals but lived in San Francisco.
6. yahoo.com #1
7. athleticsnation.com #143,039 (Click this link! It will take you to an awesome post!!)
8. sfgate.com #863
9. sportsline.com #591
10. shop.mlb.com #208
Total: 146,317
Texas Rangers Alexa rankings of top Google Web Search:
1. mlb.com #208
2. txdps.state.tx.us #2572 (Dept of Public Safety website)
3. texasranger.org #946,308 (Texas Ranger museum)
4. imdb.com #33
5. cnn.com #53
6. texasrangers.org #5,363,006 (totally awesome site!)
7. go.com #65
8. wikipedia.org #8
9. yahoo.com #1
10. lsjunction.com #451,765
Total: 6,763,939
A's win! But I'm mad that none of these mentioned that an orange cat had ran across the field in the 4th inning last night.
Other than that, this was fun. I got to learn the history of the actual Texas rangers from this google search. I'm reading Blood Meridian by Cormick McCarthy, so I'm pretty into it -- not enough to be a fan, of course.
Last night, I wore my glasses and brought my laptop to the game. At the restaurant in the coliseum, the guys at the table next to me asked if I was a scout. My laptop's about 7 years old with neon pink duct tape holding the battery in place, but I pretended that I was a scout anyway. I work with the Nationals but lived in San Francisco.
A ferral cat runs onto the on-deck circle during the Texas Rangers vs. Oakland Athletics baseball game Friday, July 25, 2008, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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