OAKLAND — Thursday was a perfect day to go to the ballpark. Eighty degrees, clear-skied, and with a decent breeze to boot — it was the kind of East Bay day that makes the rest of the nation, and even some other Californians, jealous.
It was the kind of day that should not — nay, cannot — be spent in a press box, so I took in the Opening Day matchup between the Angels and the A’s from the stands.
There were plenty of good seats available.
The 2018 A’s are a team that has legitimate playoff aspirations; they were playing a against the best player in baseball, Mike Trout, and the sport’s top oddity, the Japanese Babe Ruth, Shohei Ohtani; it was the nicest day of 2018 (man, was it gorgeous outside); and it was Opening Day, which, in my book, is a holiday.