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[susandennis]

I'm tying out the new LJ posting interface. It's got a nice, updated look and feel and yet appears to let me still do it my way. Nice, LJ, thanks!!

The Mariner game went on a little long last night. I turned it off at 10 cause they were ahead by 2 and I didn't care and I wanted to listen to my book. At 11 when I would normally turn it off and turn on the news to go to sleep by, I checked the score and it was 2-2 in the 12th inning. So I turned it back on and hung in until the Mariners finally gave up in the 18th - I think it was closing in on 2 am.

So this morning I slept in a little - much to Betty's dismay. Such a luxury.

I really don't have anything on the hit parade today. I think I'll hit the pool at 11 and then maybe get gas in the car. Big day!

It is still hot and dusty out. The air is ugly and I'm afraid to spend too much time in it. I do keep the door open at home with the fan going but in the car, I keep the windows rolled up. I am very grateful that I don't have to do anything outside. I need rain. Please. And cool. Thanks.

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[mixter11nm.livejournal.com]

18 innings. Holy shit that is one loooong game.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

When I found out about the game this morning, I wondered how many fans in Baltimore stayed up for the whole thing.

[susandennis]

our announcers speculated that they would be happy to learn, when they got up for work, that they could still catch the end of the game.

i did see a tweet from a mariner fan in the UK who was delighted that he could still catch the action and then pissed cause it wasn't over yet and he had to go to work.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

our announcers speculated that they would be happy to learn, when they got up for work, that they could still catch the end of the game.

Well, I think in fact the game was over at about 4:00 AM ET, which is probably earlier than most people with day jobs get up.

[howeird]

I had to look up the records to check my memory,which is good because I was off by several years. May 31 1964, which turned out to be my last baseball season in New York, that traitorous Giants team came to play in NY, and as usual we were playing ball out in the street. It was a double-header, and SF had won the first game. We had a portable radio going with the game on, and somehow we managed to convince our parents to let us stay out till the doubleheader was over.

That game ran 23 innings, about 7 1/2 hours. I know it was well after dinner when the game ended, our parents had reversed their decision at about the 12th inning.

[susandennis]

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