The Strike

I just realized that 12 years ago today (8/12/94) the Major League Baseball players went on strike, and the rest of that season was wiped out.

I was in Anaheim, California at the time, staying with some friends for about a week while I was doing research on a writing project (another post for another time). We actually managed to catch a game between the Angels and . . . . some other team . . . . two days before the strike.

It was also at this time that I saw the only live football game I've ever seen at any level -- an NFL pre-season game between the (then) Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots. Yes, that's right -- I've only seen one live football game in five decades. Neither my HS nor my college had a football team. I've always found it ironic that the only game I've seen was between the Rams and Pats, whose POSTseason tilt seven seasons later would be the happiest day of my life.

Funnily enough, with all the nonsense going on right now with air travel, August 1994 was also the last time I've flown anywhere. Can't say I miss it, either.