Sunday, June 14, 2009

New Project

Recently I was reading a random baseball blog in which the author was trying to get his son to a game featuring each of the teams in Major League Baseball. Evidently the task will be completed in August of this year. The son is three years old.

I am 27 and have not completed this task myself. That is not right. I intend to right this wrong.

First, the teams that I have seen in person.

AL West:
California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels (All 3 incarnations)
Seattle Mariners (Interleague play. Almost got a Griffey autograph)
Oakland A's
Texas Rangers

AL Central:
Chicago White Sox (With the sole purpose of booing A.J. Pierzinski. Mission accomplished)
Minnesota Twins (Joe Nathan autographed ball)
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers (Saw an entire 3 game set)

AL East:
Boston Red Sox (Ex-Roommate was die-hard Sox fan and so for 3 seasons I attended all Boston games in Anaheim)
New York Yankees (Saw Clemens in his "retirement" season of '03)
Toronto Blue Jays

NL West:
San Diego Padres (Hometown team as a kid)
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Francisco Giants (Both at home and on the road)

NL Central:
Chicago Cubs (Any and every chance that I can!)
St. Louis Cardinals
Milwaukee Brewers (Made Geoff Jenkins cry as a rookie)
Houston Astros
Cincinnati Reds
Pittsburgh Pirates (Saw Hoffman set the all-time saves mark)
NL East:
New York Mets
Philadelphia Phillies (Grandma was a big Phillie fan, so we saw them when they were in San Diego)
Montreal Expos! (Not being counted as Nationals)
Atlanta Braves

Leaving only a few teams to go. I may have seen some of them in the past, but I have no definite memories or proof, so back on the list they go.

Kansas City Royals
Tampa Bay Rays
Baltimore Orioles
Colorado Rockies
Arizona Diamondbacks
Washington Nationals
and
Florida Marlins

Not too bad. Two full divisions (AL West and NL Central) and several more very close to being completed. It looks like I now have a new project and legitimate motivation to go to random games. After this, we will move on to each stadium, but for now, this seems to be a pretty good goal.