July 8 - Slept late. Met more of Andrea's cousins. We then went
to the Circuit City to get my stuff installed. The mall that this
particular CC was in was really, really lame. One very bad record
store, one pathetic book store, and nothing much else. Andrea and I
milled around and mostly talked until the stereo was finally
installed. We made our way downtown, and went to the Coca-Cola
Pavilion downtown. A true monument to capitalism. We went to the
Underground, which is a large mall under downtown. Found some food,
and found a better record store. Went to the game. We were running a
little late, but the game was rain-delayed 25 minutes, so I didn't
miss anything. Andrea had got her ticket later, so our seats were far
apart, but she found me later, and we sat together because of
no-shows. It only took two hours for Bob Tewksbery to shut out Greg
Maddux and the Braves as St. Louis won 2-0. (Another note for
baseball fans: Maddux lost four times in 1994. I saw two of them).
Atlanta Fulton County Stadium is going to be replaced for the
Olympics, and that's probably a good thing. It's yet another boring,
circular, multi-purpose stadium. They had a fire there a couple of
years ago. Lightning had struck the satellite dish that received
out-of-town scores, so that scoreboard just sat dark. The colors are
hideous, an awful light blue and a dark red. I don't mind the
tomahawk chop, but they never got it really going for my video. Darn.
Getting out was pretty awful, as downtown Atlanta is a maze and not
designed very well.
The retrosheet.org link contains a link to a SABR (Society of American Baseball Research) story on the same game:
2020-07-08 I'm a little more woke now. The Tomahawk Chop bothers me a lot now. And the Braves are thinking about trying to ditch it: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/atlanta-braves-considering-eliminating-controversial-tomahawk-chop/ar-BB16uejd?li=BBnb7Kz
Good riddance (if they follow through).
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