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Oakland/Boston Meatball Game: Coffee Fog
From Monkeyball @ Athletics Nation:
sal·vage [sal-vij]: noun, verb, -vaged, -vag·ing.
1. the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
2. the property so saved.
3. compensation given to those who voluntarily save a ship or its cargo.
4. the act of saving anything from fire, danger, etc.
5. what the Oakland Athletics ballclub must do in the third game of every series in the second half of 2008
Living in San Francisco, I try not to wake up on weekends until after the fog’s burned off, but today’s a morning game and even though I don’t remember the last time we won a series, I need my A’s fix.
I’m eating blackberry waffles at my Boston friend’s house. Even though she’s a Bosox fan, she’s wearing an A’s hat. I can’t decide if I like that or not.
Last night I had a dream that Mark Ellis has been kidnapped and kept in
small dessert ranch. I don’t remember much else about the dream,
except that I’m just remembering it now as Mark gets tagged out in the
first in an attempt at a double.
The Meatball 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 #210
2. mlb.com #210
3. wikipedia.org #8
4. yahoo.com #1
5. sfgate.com #865
6. athleticsnation.com #142,844
7. oaklandfans.com #6,953,227 (it’s good to see this site on the first page of a google search)
8. go.com #70
9. cnn.com #53
10. sportsline.com #591
Total: 7,097,509
Oakland Athletics Alexa rankings of top Google Web Search:
1. mlb.com #210
2. mlb.com #210
3. wikipedia.org #8
4. boston.com #654
5. mlb.com #210
6. ticketjones.com #977,788
7. go.com #70
8. cnn.com #53
9. mlb.com #210
10. yahoo.com #1
Total: 979,414
Boston wins! It’s pretty boring the the same site (MLB.com) is listed so many times in a google search.
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
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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