I wonder if it’s socially acceptable to use a blog as a form of mass mailing. I hope so.

To anyone who is (a) reading this, (b) going to the APA Pacific and (c) would like to go to a baseball game while there.

I got some tickets to the Friday night exhibition game b/w the Giants and the Texas Rangers at PacBell park. They’re fairly cheap centrefield seats, but the outfield bleachers are probably the best feature of PacBell, so I don’t regret sitting out there. The only reason I’m telling you all this is because I bought some extra tickets on the assumption that there would be other philosophers interested in coming along to the game. If you’re one of them, email me.

Exhibition games featuring the Giants are fun because there is so little motivation for the opposing side to intentionally walk Barry Bonds. The only Giants game I’ve seen live, he ended up 0-for-1 with 4 walks. Hopefully we can get to see him swing the bat this time. The seats I got are very close to where one of the fights broke out over a home run ball, so we know he can hit them there. But I doubt there will be fights over home run balls in the exhibition season.