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Baseball in Australia.

Who would have thought I would be watching a Major League Baseball game in Australia?  I didn't even know that many people even liked baseball in Australia.

MLB had decided that the opening series for the season would be held in Sydney.  The Dodgers vs the Diamondbacks!  I've loved baseball since I was an university, so I quickly bought tickets as soon as they became available.  They weren't cheap.... not cheap at all.  This would be a disaster I thought. With ticket prices like this, no one will go and the entire experiment will be a disaster.

It turns out I was completely wrong.

Whether it was merely the novelty of having the MLB in Sydney or if instead it was because Australia was full of secretive baseball tragics, it was a full house (I would late find out that all three games of the series were well attended and the entire endeavour was a great success).

I had a great time watching the game.  Seeing the SCG completely transformed into a baseball diamond was also something which I felt glad to witness.  One of my last memories of sitting in the members' stand was watching the cricket, so it was a bizarre image to see a baseball game happening directly in front of it.  It was one of those strange moments in life that may never happen again, but I'm glad I was able to be part of it, even if it's just so that I can tell people one day that "I was there!"