America - Sports are Terminally Boring

So, baseball. Baseball, baseball, baseball. Bloody hell it’s dull.

After the ice hockey success it seemed like a good idea to see some more sport, and the Colorado Rockies were playing the Los Angeles Dodgers at a roughly sensible time and, most importantly, for not very much money. A nice night out, yes?

NO! One thing they neglected to mention is that nothing of interest whatsoever happens for 95% of the game. We managed to amuse ourselves for quite a while by extrapolating the rules from what we saw, but I have no idea why anyone else was there. Shockingly few runs were scored, the players spent a long time talking to one another and not throwing balls, and there was yet more of the half-arsed chanting we were privy to in Toronto. By far the best bit of play was when one man broke his baseball stick in two.

Luckily, there were two redeeming features of the evening. First, I got a footlong hot dog. Second, the moon was very pretty. I took a lot of photos of the moon. They even put it on the big screen overlooking the game during the really dull moments.