[your los angeles -- ]

i've kept score at baseball games for as long as i can remember. it keeps me in the game, and it's nice to be able to look back and remember the games i've seen. my daddy gave me my current scorebook for christmas six years ago, and i have kept more than 30 games in it since. games in camden yards, games at wrigley, games at boshamer stadium in chapel hill and the sky dome and durham athletic park. it lost its back cover last weekend during the carolina/boston college series. it's rain spattered and smeared and full of rosters and old all-star ballots, full of mediocre lines from future major leaguers and stellar lines from ballers who'll never play a day in the minors.

i love it more than almost anything else i own. the laptop and the camera and the cat and the paper journal are pretty much the only things that come first.


carolina's starting third baseman caught an inning at the game last wednesday, and it was pretty much the best thing ever, except for where they put up eleven runs in the eighth against florida state last night, which was also totally amazing.