Picture swiped from Howie and Haviva's blogWe've acquired some genuine Bostonian friends (who also make a mean apple pancake) to watch with, and every game also prompted a blitz of e-mails, calls, chats and text-messages to fellow fans in distant places.
This picture arrived via cell phone from some lucky friends in the crowd at Fenway during Game 6 of the Cleveland series.
Apparently, according to the US media, the Red Sox are now the Yankees and therefore everybody should hate them. But I don't buy it. What's to hate about Jacoby Ellsbury, who came up through the farm system, got thrown into the playoffs at the last second, and played like a man on fire? What's so bad about diminutive Dustin Pedroia, who said he was so thrilled to hit a home run he couldn't remember running around the bases? What's not to like about Schilling? Well, OK, forget about Schilling. But the Yankees are still obnoxious - if you need proof, check out Hank Steinbrenner saying they're the only team worth playing for - and the Sox are still the Sox, and life is good.
4 comments:
i think you know how i feel about all of this. but i do believe some congrats are in order.
--alw
ps-- he still hasn't called, and this time i know it's not because he's been out in left field.
Hey Trish,
Glad you got to see the games. Beth and I listened to the last three on am radio driving back from gigs, and then caught the last 3 innings each night on tv. Ellsbury quickly became Erin's and my favorite after he came up last summer. He played the night after we went to Fenway, a game that we caught on tv in a Boston restaurant. We couldn't believe how fast he was watching him score from second on a passed ball. Now if spring training could only start next week.
Okay - I have to brag - (as Trish knows) I was at the park when Dustin Pedroia broke open game 7 of the ALCS with his home run. It was just after Matthew turned to me and another fan to yelp - now it is time for Pedroia to hit his first post-season home run. and Thwack! Woo hoo! Clairvoyance? Mind control? maybe not - but, I bet there were plenty of fans thinking the same thing. He did not disappoint. What a hero - who could hate that? I'm in love (with the red sox, and, oh yes, Jason Veritek )- I agree, if only spring training could start next week. At least we won't be so sleep deprived here in the States! Miss you!
ahhh... these are very very good days to be a redsox fan! gotta make this feeling last as long as possible, before baseball withdrawal sets in...
ps - mary, how awesome that you were at game 7 to see dusty's HR! I am totally jealous. though I can brag too because I was at fenway when the sox clinched the first playoff round. all in one night we got to watch the sox beat minn., then see nyy lose a 'nailbiter' up on the jumbotron at fenway park (!), then stayed to celebrate when the sox came back out on the field and danced like idiots and sprayed champagne everywhere. a total blast.
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