The Worst Damn Sports GBLOG Period

In an effort to utterly confuse Kark Hungus, Those Aren't Pillows and The Wood Dog Blog agreed to post a running Game Blog of the Ichrio vs. Dice-K baseball game (on 4/11) that was hyped by ESPN and MLB all week. He is a Red Sox fan, I am a Mariner fan, so this made sense.
As the following email exchange shows, we agreed to start our gblogs at 3:45 for a 4:05 first pitch:

From: [Wood Dog]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:56 PM
To: [Those Aren't Pillows Guy]
Subject: Glog

So when do we start our game blogs? 4:05pm first pitch? Or 3:45? If it’s 3:45 then I can include this email as part of the log. I hate the term “glog” by the way for “game log”. I am going to use “GBLOG”.

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From: [Those Aren't Pillows Guy]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:56 PM
To: [Wood Dog]
Subject: Re: Glog

I would include this email in your GBlog if I were you. I'm still going to glog.That was I can start a subsite called Glogjammin.

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And so it began.

3:50 - I throw on ESPN II looking for some pregame. Yes, I work from home, in my basement, and I have the luxury to at times throw on the television during an important event and "work" with the game, err, event on in "the background". It never affects my work production in the slightest. [Editor's note: he is writing up this blog a week later on Thursday at 4:10pm, with no hint of work being done]. So I throw on The Deuce 15 minutes before game time and there is a sweet looking show called "NASCAR NOW". Oh, by "sweet" I mean "ridiculous". The two guys on the show are talking about the "Texas Bump" which I have to think is a NASCAR term that, like all NASCAR terms, is stupid. Then I realized what was really shocking me about the show. The two guys on the show were black, and then MY GOD, they brought on a WOMAN to discuss the sport too. Isn't NASCAR a "Redneck's Only" sport? Was I wrong about NASCAR? I realize that I don't care enough to look into this.

4:05 First Pitch. Ichiro is batting .111 this season. Dice-K is SOOO overrated. I don't think this is going to be the epic battle the fans from Japan were hoping for. Ichiro K's.

Did you know that Ichiro has a TV show back in Japan that he records during the off season? It's called "Ichiro Versus" and is supposedly an intellectual game show that, like all shows broadcast in Japan, has no real comparison in the U.S. I'm not sure if people realize how huge this guy is over there. He is like if Brad Pitt was also one of top players in the NFL big. When he came to Seattle, there was a $1 millon bounty offered by a Japanese tabloid for a naked picture of the guy. That's big.

"Ichiro Versus"

4:30 Grandparents are coming over for Chinese food, so I make the order. It's a strong order.

5:00 I go upstairs to let the grandparents in. Felix is pitching lights out. Oh yeah, not mentioned by ESPN is this "Felix Hernandez" guy who might be the best pitcther in the A.L.

6:30 I get a score update on the TV and realize Felix has pitched SEVEN no-hit innings. Gran' Lloyd is a huge M's fan, so I put my laptop on the dinning room table and tune in via slingbox. This is exciting. We are stoked.

6:40 The first batter we see dribbles one through the middle for a base hit. Somehow we totally jinxed it. Felix goes on to 1-hit one of the best lineups in baseball, in their dojo. Dice-K gets the loss, and Ichiro goes 0-4. ONE DAMN HIT. A dribbler through the middle is the difference in pitching a gem, and history. Oh well. The mu-shu was fantastic though.