Those of you who know me will have their eyebrows raised with that title.  Nick knows nothing about baseball… that was until last night.

A few years ago, friends of ours brought us to a Dodger game.  To show how clueless I am, I thought the Dodgers were a football team.  I mean seriously.  If you were raised in another country and someone tells you about a team called the Dodgers, you would surely think of football, rugby or something grubby.  So here I am cracking jokes about football all the way to the Dodger's game.  I even kid about big baseball lights at the parking lot of the Dodger stadium.  I thought they were odd for a football game.  And then it happens, inside the stadium I notice the field is particular.  It doesn't look like any normal football field I knew.  I thought football had changed until I saw the Dodgers come out and noticed my hour long gaffes.

Fear not, that won't happen again since last night we went to an Angels' game against The Twins, I believe from Minnesota.  It was interesting because I started to understand the game, or at least the many intricacies of the game.  I love Rugby because it moves quickly, requires a lot of strength and agility but also a lot of tactics and strategies that are constantly evolving.

Watching baseball, I started to understand a part of a childhood I never had before 11 and after 17.  I never knew baseball and learning more about it last night gave me a more in depth glimpse into our American culture.  It is a slow game, no doubt about it.  It is a frustrating one at that.  You move up, then get wiped out.  You place one person there, until the other team takes him out.  It's two steps forward, one step back and sometimes vice-versa.

Yes, I say our culture because I chose to live here.  There is something fascinating about watching a very slow moving game, filled with intricacies and sportsmen who get very little action and get paid handsomely.  And on that subject, judging by paying $81 for a few typical baseball beers and food is no wonder why these folks are millionaires and their owners billionaires.  Interesting, indeed.