can now fetch games, hurrah!

  $ ruby -rrubygems -rmlb_gameday_api -rpp -e "pp MLBAPI::Base.games"

lib/mlb_gameday_api.rb

@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ module MLBAPI; end
 require 'mlb_gameday_api/base'
 require 'mlb_gameday_api/client'
 require 'mlb_gameday_api/cache'
+require 'mlb_gameday_api/model'
 require 'mlb_gameday_api/game'
 require 'mlb_gameday_api/player'
-require 'mlb_gameday_api/day'

lib/mlb_gameday_api/base.rb

@@ -2,8 +2,17 @@ class MLBAPI::Error < StandardError; end
 
 class MLBAPI::Base
 
-  def initialize
-    @client = MLBAPI::Client.new
+  def self.client
+    Thread.current[:MLBAPI_Client] ||= MLBAPI::Client.new
+  end
+
+  def self.games(date = Date.today)
+    games = []
+    game_xml = client.load('miniscoreboard.xml', date)
+    game_xml.xpath('/games/game').each do |game|
+      games << MLBAPI::Game.new(game.attributes)
+    end
+    games
   end
 
 end

lib/mlb_gameday_api/game.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+class MLBAPI::Game < MLBAPI::Model
+
+end

lib/mlb_gameday_api/model.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+class MLBAPI::Model < MLBAPI::Base
+
+  def initialize(attributes = {})
+    @attributes = attributes
+  end
+
+private
+
+  # roughly, this sets up an openstruct-like model
+  def method_missing(sym, *args, &block)
+    if args.empty? && block.nil? && sym !~ /[\!\?\=]$/ && @attributes.has_key?(sym.to_s)
+      create_attr_reader(sym)
+      send(sym)
+    elsif args.size == 1 && block.nil? && sym =~ /\=$/
+      create_attr_writer(sym)
+      send(sym, *args)
+    else
+      super
+    end
+  end
+
+  def create_attr_reader(sym)
+    self.class.class_eval do
+      define_method(sym) do |*args|
+        raise ArgumentError, "wrong number of arguments (#{args.size} for 0)" unless args.size == 0
+        @attributes[sym.to_s]
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  def create_attr_writer(sym)
+    self.class.class_eval do
+      define_method(sym) do |*args|
+        raise ArgumentError, "wrong number of arguments (#{args.size} for 1)" unless args.size == 1
+        @attributes[sym.to_s] = args.first
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+end