11-13 isn't so bad for a team that was only 2-8 in their past ten games.

We arrived early enough to claim our stadium blankets yesterday. Now I have a throw for each sofa. The weather stayed on the nice side. It was a great night to be at the ballpark.

Luke Hochevar made his second start of 2008. It was a quality start, and he got the win as the Royals won 2-1.

When Jose Guillen was announced as the cleanup hitter in the first inning, I had yelled, "are you done with your slump now?" Jose lined out to end the inning.

The Royals took a 1-0 lead in the fourth when Mark Teahen scored on Ross Gload's single. I cheered for the result and quietly lamented how this will only reinforce the illusion that Gload is an adequate major league first baseman.

In the fifth inning, I'm afraid I became less of a man. An entirely too adorable toddler was having a blast playing with the seats in front of me, and somehow I ended up paying more attention to the kid than to the game. Toronto scored a run, and I didn't even notice until the top of the sixth. In case I hadn't mentioned this already, I'm not particularly astute at faking things, so I was worried that jaredchilders might call me on that.

Just as I was prepared to spill the beans to a would-be-laughing Jared, Jose Guillen was up to bat again in the bottom of the sixth. Apparently he'd thought about what I'd said earlier and decided to break his slump with a home run. So he did, and my lack of knowledge about the score of the game became irrelevant! Yay, Jose!

Fortunately, that was the last run-producing event in the game because I had found a woman who was dying to get the camera crew's attention. People trying to get on TV and/or Crown Vision are the best. It really doesn't matter whether it's about team spirit or boredom or attention whoring because the entertainment value is so high. This one kept wiggling and shaking it and tossing her head around, yet the cameras remained focused elsewhere. So she wiggled/shaked/twisted/spazzed/convulsed/flapped/got jiggy all the more furiously. I didn't know the human body was capable of moving in some of those ways. Finally, all of her contorting was rewarded with an on-camera performance, but by then she didn't have the energy to sustain much of anything anymore. I'll bet she's sore today.