Back at the Coliseum for my A’s and some root beer floats

Root Beer Floats!!

Good to be home!! @Athletics #RootedInOakland pic.twitter.com/gOrlpZ8piJ

— Sam (@phutmasterflex) July 19, 2017

On Tuesday I made it back to the Coliseum for the first time in over three seasons. And it was Root Beer Float Day! I hadn’t been to one since 2011 when Mark Ellis was traded.

But it was so fun to be back. Free parking. A great catch up with some friends and look! Dave Kaval and Ken Korach took photos with me!

Additionally, I just enjoyed hearing the sounds of the game, walking through the park, seeing the field I grew up loving. It was special. I missed all of it. I want to go back!

The Coliseum is old but it still has a fun feel to it. I love you, Oakland!

WARRIORS!!!!!! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!!

An extremely satisfying NBA Championship run by the Warriors https://t.co/RVGBFU3k5e pic.twitter.com/Lk4IRbbHOI

— Samuel Lam (@SamuelYLam) June 13, 2017

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I just watched the pilot episode of ‘Pitch’ and I hated it

** This post will contain spoilers

I wanted to like this show. I really wanted it to be good. I like the idea of a woman pitching in the big leagues. I would love to see that in real life.

But this show did not make it seem plausible. It didn’t even make the effort to make such a potential historical event seem like something that could actually happen. Instead, no reality was suspended and it felt like some made for TV Disney Channel movie. There were some bits of reality to it but way too much fantasy to make this show worth watching.

The idea of a woman pitching in the big leagues isn’t something that I think will never happen. I would love to see it. But Fox (yeah, my employer) did not do a great job of portraying that reality. Instead they gave us a premise with little to no background and a reality I could not live with.

I went to Qualcomm Stadium to see the Jaguars face the Chargers

I had never been to Qualcomm Stadium and I wanted to see a game there before the team potential moves. Jaguars were in town. Let’s go!

The stadium is not impressive but getting there on the trolley was real easy. Nothing too nice about this stadium. The audio was weak. Scoreboard was weak. Jaguars looked weak.

So much weakness. But hey, off my bucket list!

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I met Bill Walton last night!

The story

I met Bill Walton last night and he's chill and cool as I always imagined he would behttps://t.co/pGMtGM3mDK pic.twitter.com/4hGxhg3GLm

— Samuel Lam (@SamuelYLam) August 20, 2016

Warriors NBA Finals thoughts

Warriors losing the NBA Finals hurts but that’s the unpredictability of sports https://t.co/YYzes27D9u pic.twitter.com/EalbZkt69C

— Samuel Lam (@SamuelYLam) June 20, 2016

I still love the Sharks

What a season. A season that had little expectations ended up being a magical run. What we had was a great chance to see the team and the Bay fall in love with this team again. The hardest championship to win and the Sharks battled all the way to the very end. They just weren’t good enough. But I have hope. I have faith that one day they will win it. One day.

Until that day, I will continue to cheer for my team.

Stanley Cup Final Game 4 experience

I wrote a quick one on my blog:

New blog post: My experience attending Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final https://t.co/0nnackhYoK on #BATEOTD

— But At The End Of The Day… (@BATEOTD) June 9, 2016

I also have photos here.

Sharks are going to the Stanley Cup Final!!!!!

The #Sharks deserve this trip to the #StanleyCup Final after years of disappointment https://t.co/PXVPSAuHIm pic.twitter.com/9ebX8Q5GUQ

— Samuel Lam (@SamuelYLam) May 26, 2016

I have to figure out how to get to San Jose to catch one of these games. I did this crazy adventure last year with the Warriors. I gotta do it this year for the Sharks!