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But then I thought about the game
This afternoon I watched my first baseball game in almost exactly four years.* I think my primary fondness for the sport remains in the fact that it generated Damn Yankees, and my loyalty to the Red Sox a matter of friends and proximity,** but it was surprisingly fun. And certainly more of a success than the last time.
*The last was Game Seven of the 2003 ALCS, in which Pedro Martinez melted down in the eighth inning and the Yankees polished up the floor with the Sox. The last before that, I was in fifth grade: all I remember was my father took me to Fenway and the Red Sox lost. That doesn't narrow it down much.
**Genetically, I think I'm some sort of Dodgers-Yankees crossbreed. Those members of my family that care about baseball hail in one way or another from New York.
*The last was Game Seven of the 2003 ALCS, in which Pedro Martinez melted down in the eighth inning and the Yankees polished up the floor with the Sox. The last before that, I was in fifth grade: all I remember was my father took me to Fenway and the Red Sox lost. That doesn't narrow it down much.
**Genetically, I think I'm some sort of Dodgers-Yankees crossbreed. Those members of my family that care about baseball hail in one way or another from New York.
You gotta have heart
Damn Yankees was the first thing that made me think much about baseball at all. But it did a better job of getting me to think about Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon.
Haven't seen a live game in more than 10 years. A friend of mine and her husband follow minor-league baseball, though, and I'm going to ask them if I can tag along sometime.
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I always approve of Donald O'Connor.
But it did a better job of getting me to think about Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon.
Which is also never a loss.
Haven't seen a live game in more than 10 years.
Well, this was on television. But it was still the first game I'd paid actual attention to in years. When the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, I was watching a lunar eclipse.
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2) Odd how baseball, which I personaly detest as the most boring sport played on this continent, is a matter of genetics for so many people. Since I was born in northern New England, I am forever linked to those bums who had to dick around until my great grandpa was 10 years in his grave to win him a series. Jerks.
3) I work with Yankees fans. The lot of them, with the exception of Mo, who comes from above the Boston/New York demarcation line in Connecticut, which is another interesting local baseball related phenomenon.
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Dammit, now I lost too. Where's the site to post my failure?
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Er?
Since I was born in northern New England, I am forever linked to those bums who had to dick around until my great grandpa was 10 years in his grave to win him a series. Jerks.
That's what baseball hungry ghosts are for.