Date: Friday, 5/23/08
Time: 7:05 PM (ET)
Time of Game: 4:09.
Time: 7:05 PM (ET)
Time of Game: 4:09.
Attendance: 39,947.
Weather: 59° F, Wind 6mph from Left to Right, Cloudy, No Precipitation.
Winner: TEX, 13-9
Home win record after this game: 8-2
Distance driven so far: 3966.29 mi
Comments: The Cleveland Indians had lost this one before they ever set foot on the field. Coming off a 7 game losing streak, and a sweep by the White Sox, the Indians' pitching, despite their adoring and raucous fans' pleas, could not stop the onslaught of the Texas Rangers. The Rangers scored 13 runs and only needed one home run to do it. They let my home win record slip to 8-2.
Progressive field is big and loud. While the stadium is visually pleasing, the fans really make the experience here. They are all attentive to the game and
right down to the five year old who barely knows what is going on, they are jubilant in success, and crushed in failure, and no one got on my case for wearing a White Sox cap. In the bottom of the ninth, there was a ten-year-old kid in front of us asking the manager to pinch hit Lofton, mentioning knowingly: "He IS available, you know."
I went to the game with my friend Tony who will be starting his Emergency Medicine residency in Cleveland in a couple of weeks. The ER program he's attending covers the event medicine to some of the sports teams that play in this city, including the Indians, and the Browns. This makes me terribly jealous, but such a windfall of auspicious luck could not have happened to a better person. Tony and I know that living life is about working to allow yourself to do things that you wa
nt to do. Sure, on some level we have the privilege as medical students to be entering a field that is interesting to us. But work will never give us the peace of mind and contemplative environment to truly allow us to experience a sense of peace from expressing ourselves through action and thinking.
Giving ourselves time to truly know ourselves, thats what life really is about. Doing things that help us get closer to understanding ourselves through contemplative action are good for ourselves and usually are good for the world.
Winner: TEX, 13-9
Home win record after this game: 8-2
Distance driven so far: 3966.29 mi
Comments: The Cleveland Indians had lost this one before they ever set foot on the field. Coming off a 7 game losing streak, and a sweep by the White Sox, the Indians' pitching, despite their adoring and raucous fans' pleas, could not stop the onslaught of the Texas Rangers. The Rangers scored 13 runs and only needed one home run to do it. They let my home win record slip to 8-2.
Progressive field is big and loud. While the stadium is visually pleasing, the fans really make the experience here. They are all attentive to the game and
right down to the five year old who barely knows what is going on, they are jubilant in success, and crushed in failure, and no one got on my case for wearing a White Sox cap. In the bottom of the ninth, there was a ten-year-old kid in front of us asking the manager to pinch hit Lofton, mentioning knowingly: "He IS available, you know."I went to the game with my friend Tony who will be starting his Emergency Medicine residency in Cleveland in a couple of weeks. The ER program he's attending covers the event medicine to some of the sports teams that play in this city, including the Indians, and the Browns. This makes me terribly jealous, but such a windfall of auspicious luck could not have happened to a better person. Tony and I know that living life is about working to allow yourself to do things that you wa
nt to do. Sure, on some level we have the privilege as medical students to be entering a field that is interesting to us. But work will never give us the peace of mind and contemplative environment to truly allow us to experience a sense of peace from expressing ourselves through action and thinking.Giving ourselves time to truly know ourselves, thats what life really is about. Doing things that help us get closer to understanding ourselves through contemplative action are good for ourselves and usually are good for the world.
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