Monday, October 10, 2005

Oh yeah: I know the Red Sox lost. I'm now rooting for the White ones. We got ours last year; they've been waiting even longer for theirs. It's their turn, as far as I'm concerned.
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6 comments:

Meade said...

Well.

You certainly don't sound like any Red Sox fan I've ever known.

- a Reds fan who will always have special place in his heart for the 1975 Red Sox

10/12/05, 4:12 PM
Be said...

Well, I'm not really that "Yankees Suck" type, if that's what you mean. I tend(ed) to think of Sox fandom as like being married to the dreamer who'd lose the nest egg on a different new invention or get-rich-quick scheme. Frustrating and heartbreaking though they'd be, you'd still love them and stay faithful.

I do like Toronto (am from right nearby) and will root for teams where favorite players have ended up - but will always be particularly fond of the Sox.

10/12/05, 4:45 PM
Be said...

Two little things:

1.) I and the Korean Exchange student were the only kids in my school who were rooting for the Sox against the Mets back '86. We both got such grief (and for a long time) after they lost that one.

2.) Back when tickets were still cheap at Fenway, if I had the afternoon off from work and school, very often I'd go buy a ticket and do homework in the bleachers. There's something about the sounds and the smells there that is so comforting/calming.

10/12/05, 4:52 PM
Meade said...

Doing homework in the bleachers - now that's my kind of baseball fan!

I rooted for the Sox in '86.
Do you remember that joke? I heard it from my brother, who lived in Beantown at the time and phoned me in Oho a few days after it was all over.

"Did you hear about Billy Buckner?"

"No, what?"

"Walked out of his hotel this morning right smack into the path of a huge bus."

I'm of course thinking, geez how could one guy have so much bad luck? "God, that's horrible!"

"Oh he's okay. Not a scratch.

Durn bus went right between his legs."

It takes an especially true sense of humor to be RedSox fan I suppose.

Btw, great blog, Be!

10/12/05, 5:16 PM
Be said...

Snort! Lmeade...what a great joke! I'll have to share that with the branch of the family who would get it. We still chuckle over this one from a couple years back:

What do Francona and Don Zimmer have in common?

Neither could take out Pedro!

***

It makes me sad that a lot of us can't get out to the games like we used to. Maybe if we're lucky, the Sox will start sucking again and the normal people will be able to get into Fenway again. (How's that for Sox fatalism? Just a little short of being a character in a Checkov play, isn't it now.)

BTW to your btw: *blush* Thanks.

10/12/05, 5:35 PM
Meade said...

Good one. Zimmy grew up on the west side of Cincinnati, here, where, if you can believe it, he has a huge following of devotees who worship him as St. Donny.

Maybe if we're lucky, the Sox will start sucking again and the normal people will be able to get into Fenway again. (How's that for Sox fatalism? Just a little short of being a character in a Checkov play, isn't it now.)

Ha! Yes. It seems that for a true Sox fan, survival is all about being able to view the glass as being half full of both illusion and disillusion. Hey, better bad luck next year!

10/13/05, 2:19 PM

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