Baseball

Charles Schwab Field Omaha
Why are there four different fonts in this sign?

We've been watching Oregon State in the playoffs. First we had three games against Florida State in the Super Regionals in Corvallis. They won two out of three, so they moved on to the Men's College World Series in Omaha. They won their first game there against Louisville, but the next game was against Coastal Carolina University who were on 55 game winning streak. How do you even do that? Oregon lost this one. I expect there will be another game soon.

Ran into a couple of weird takes on baseball. I stopped in a bookstore in northwest Portland the other day, picked up a book and read a couple pages, see if it's going to grab me. We've got a kid going to play in a baseball game with his dad. The old man is a bit of a baseball fanatic, the kid not so much. If you ever watch baseball you may know that the scoreboard often shows Runs, Hits and Errors. The kid doesn't like errors. He points out that no other sports have 'errors', or at least they don't count them. Doesn't like being told he made an error, or something. Baffles me why anyone would be bothered by this. Of course, when I played baseball as a kid, everything I did was probably an error, but nobody bothered counting. Still don't really know what counts as an error, but then my old man wasn't a baseball fanatic.

Then while my wife and I are watching the Oregon State game, it comes out that she doesn't like playing baseball because she doesn't like being called 'out'. People are just funny.