{"id":337,"date":"2017-01-15T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=337"},"modified":"2017-01-15T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T21:14:10","slug":"baseball-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/baseball-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Begins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the 2017 season started for me when the 2016 season ended. \u00a0I just didn&#8217;t realize it until just now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a sports fan. \u00a0I love the beginning of each season of whatever sport it is at the moment, from football to hockey to soccer.<\/p>\n<p>But baseball&#8230; it never stops. \u00a0Even before I started playing table top sports again back in 2014, I&#8217;d always have some kind of baseball game on one of my game consoles, and play a game or two, shortly after the season ended. \u00a0I&#8217;d monitor what was going on with the Giants and Mets during the Winter Meetings.<\/p>\n<p>And right now, I&#8217;m watching MLB Network, having started with a show about the first Hall of Fame class in 1939, then a round table show about this year&#8217;s Hall of Fame candidates (Tom Verducci is still a jerk), and now watching a show about Mike Piazza.<\/p>\n<p>Piazza started his career as a Dodger, so of course I hated him. \u00a0Him being a Dodger *catcher* made me hate him more.<\/p>\n<p>*glares at Mike Scioscia*<\/p>\n<p>When he became a Met, I still hated him. \u00a0Until that day we were gaming at Glenn&#8217;s house while a NASCAR race was on. \u00a0Jeff Gordon was back deep in the pack, and I said that if he won the race, I&#8217;d start rooting for Mike Piazza as a Met. \u00a0Gordon went on to win, and I reluctantly started rooting for Piazza.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the Clemens beaning. \u00a0I was never a big fan of Rocket Roger, so when he hit Piazza in the head, and then later threw a shard of a bat at him in the World Series, I became a huge Piazza fan.<\/p>\n<p>What truly cemented me as a fan was September 21, 2001. \u00a0The home run Piazza hit against the Braves. \u00a0They just showed it on TV, and I got chills and started crying again. \u00a0It was one of the best moments I&#8217;ve experienced as a baseball fan.<\/p>\n<p>I say &#8216;one of&#8217; because, as I had that epiphany that I mentioned at the start of this, so too do I realize that there will never be one &#8216;best&#8217; moment as a fan.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>watching a rookie named Dwight Gooden pitch in his first All-Star Game<\/li>\n<li>all the milestone home runs Barry Bonds hit, many of them in person<\/li>\n<li>Willie McCovey&#8217;s last game, sitting with my grandpa<\/li>\n<li>the last out of the 2010 World Series<\/li>\n<li>Johan Santana pitching the first Mets no-hitter<\/li>\n<li>attending World Series games with my long-time childhood friend<\/li>\n<li>having my aunt take me out of school to attend Opening Day with her and my grandpa<\/li>\n<li>the Sunday doubleheaders with the family, in General Admission, Section 28<\/li>\n<li>attending the first <em>Star Wars<\/em> Day at AT&amp;T Park with my nephew<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen so many &#8216;best moments&#8217;, and will probably see more in the seasons to come.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-338\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Baseball-is-life.-The-rest-is-just-details.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Baseball-is-life.-The-rest-is-just-details.jpg 500w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Baseball-is-life.-The-rest-is-just-details-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the 2017 season started for me when the 2016 season ended. \u00a0I just didn&#8217;t realize it until just now. I&#8217;m a sports fan. \u00a0I love the beginning of each season of whatever sport it is at the moment, from football to hockey to soccer. But baseball&#8230; it never stops. \u00a0Even before I started &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/baseball-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baseball Begins?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34,20],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friends","category-sports","tag-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}