{"id":471,"date":"2013-03-10T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2013-03-10T12:22:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T16:22:13","slug":"a-look-back-at-our-narrow-experience-of-the-2012-baseball-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2013\/03\/10\/a-look-back-at-our-narrow-experience-of-the-2012-baseball-season\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back At Our Narrow Experience Of The 2012 Baseball Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

So in 2011 our baseball spectating percentage was a torrid .559<\/a>. Not so much for 2012, a year where we saw the Phillies take on the Mets (4\/14\/12)<\/a>, then the Cubs (4\/29\/12)<\/a>, then the Diamondbacks (8\/3\/12)<\/a>, then the lowly Rockies (9\/9\/12)<\/a>. The one team with a good record we saw the Phillies play was the Braves (9\/23\/12)<\/a>. In Phoenix we saw the Diamondbacks play the Giants (4\/7\/12)<\/a>, who ended up winning the World Series, so there was that, but back in Queens we also saw the Diamondbacks play the Mets (5\/6\/12)<\/a>, both of whom were solidly mediocre-to-terrible in 2012.
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\nSo the final standings went as follows:<\/p>\n

San Francisco Giants: 94-68
\nArizona Diamondbacks: 81-81
\nColorado Rockies: 64-98
\nChicago Cubs: 61-101
\nPhiladelphia Phillies: 81-81
\nNew York Mets: 74-88
\nAtlanta Braves: 94-68<\/p>\n

A combined 549-585 record translates to a .484 winning percentage. And to be honest, were it not for the novelty of taking Mr. Baby to his first baseball games, I think my satisfaction level would be right around 48 percent — low enough not to get reelected, you know?<\/p>\n

Anyway, here are some highlights:<\/p>\n

Game 1 (4\/7\/12)<\/strong> — Diamondbacks vs. Giants<\/a> in Phoenix — opening weekend\/no more “Uptown” this year:<\/p>\n

\"Arizona<\/p>\n

\"Arizona<\/p>\n

Game 2 (4\/14\/12)<\/strong> — Phillies vs. Mets<\/a> in Philadelphia — cleaned up what was left of the Spectrum\/still holding on to the glory of 2008\/the debut of the Phanatic Dangle Hat:<\/p>\n

\"Spectrum<\/p>\n

\"Spectrum<\/p>\n

\"Concourse,<\/p>\n

\"Jumbotron,<\/p>\n

Game 3 (4\/29\/12)<\/strong> — Phillies vs. Cubs<\/a> in Philadelphia — more of these blasted Dangle Hats\/the Phanatic’s birthday\/Hunter Pence era, not yet ended:<\/p>\n

\"Phanatic<\/p>\n

\"Phanatic's<\/p>\n

\"Phanatic's<\/p>\n

\"Jumbotron,<\/p>\n

Game 4 (5\/6\/12)<\/strong> — Diamondbacks vs. Mets<\/a> at Citi Field — no attendance troubles here\/”Foam God bless America My Home, Sweet” (also, more impressive scoreboard ads than in past years)\/did anyone really expect Dickey to be so solid in 2012?\/changing Lower Manhattan skyline:<\/p>\n

\"400<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

Game 5 (8\/3\/12)<\/strong> — Phillies vs. Diamondbacks<\/a> in Philadelphia — SEPTA sold the naming rights to the station on Pattison Avenue\/more fun with bootleg T-shirts\/sellout streak nearing the end (I don’t think I’d seen it below 44,000 — including standing room tickets — for some time; the streak ended 8\/6\/12):<\/p>\n

\"AT&T<\/p>\n

\"Citizens<\/p>\n

\"Philadelphia<\/p>\n

Game 6 (9\/9\/12)<\/strong> — Phillies vs. Rockies<\/a> in Philadelphia — beautiful day\/but subpar attendance\/ivy creeping to the top of the batter’s eye:<\/p>\n

\"Citizens<\/p>\n

\"Philadelphia<\/p>\n

\"Batter's<\/p>\n

Game 7 (9\/23\/12)<\/strong> — Phillies vs. Braves<\/a> — memorializing the Spectrum\/we’ll call it — it took eight years for the ivy to reach the top of the batter’s eye\/”with white foam, God bless America my home”:<\/p>\n

\"Spectrum<\/p>\n

\"Batter's<\/p>\n

\"Philadelphia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So in 2011 our baseball spectating percentage was a torrid .559. Not so much for 2012, a year where we saw the Phillies take on the Mets (4\/14\/12), then the Cubs (4\/29\/12), then the Diamondbacks (8\/3\/12), then the lowly Rockies (9\/9\/12). The one team with a good record we saw the Phillies play was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out_of_town","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}