Hello all HeartShaped Readers!
Not too much time today for posting, but wanted to spread the excitement for my favorite part of the year. Red Sox season!
I love the Red Sox. Period. Now, just 10 years ago I hated baseball and thought it was the most boring sport on the face of the planet, or perhaps tied with Curling (what is that by the way?). But by 2003, I was loving it, and so was AppleHubs–suddenly he had a sports fan wife. However, I don’t have to tell you that 2003 was not the perfect year to fall hard in love with the Sox. By the time Aaron Boone hit his homer I was so obsessed that that night I cried like a little baby all the way across the country in our new little apartment over a Hot Tub Store in Santa Barbara. Luckily I only had to wait one year to experience the pure joy of a World Series win. Wahoo! These days being a Sox fan is totally different, as referenced by many articles lately. But it all comes down to the love of the players and the game. Last years successful series was just so fun to watch–the younger guys, the veterans, everyone coming together.
Now you can say I am not a real fan cause I didn’t suffer through like 60 years of misery. But I can definitely tell you the love I have for the Sox is real. I mean, how can you not love these faces??
This week the Sox started off their season in Japan. AppleHubs and I DVRed the games at 3AM and yesterday morning woke up Christmas morning style to watch with the morning coffee. TRAGEDY. DVR snafu taped black screen for 3 hours. Damm. You. AT&T. (For so many reasons). Anyway, I then watched SportsCenter for like 80 minutes to catch the highlights. It was worth it! Amazing game, Manny being Manny, close-ups of hotter than possible Jacoby Ellsbury, happy Dice-K. YES. Life is Good Again!
For all the wonder of Red Sox Nation, visit the archive of our beloved SportsGuy and check out faves like “$14 million Grand Slam” and “Destination Destiny”.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/subject/archive
Sox, we love you. We’ll try to watch every minute–unless work gets in the way (boo). See you next week in Oakland! I’ll be the one with the silly grin a million rows up!
