We’re sitting in the Harpoon Brewery Taproom at Logan airport, just waiting until time to board. We are super excited! White UFOs for Team USA and the Celtics!
Sports
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Jun 10
NBA Finals, Game 4: Celtics v Lakers
A Win. The Celtics tied the series back up to 2-2. With a 96-89 win.
These were our last tickets of the season. Maybe our last time seeing Ray Allen in Celtics green. Maybe the last time seeing Doc coaching the C’s. Not to mention TA. For sure Thibs is gone. All these thoughts were hard to suppress while we were watching them play. It was a fun game to attend – got to watch the Baby and Nate show, while Pierce had another one of his quiet nights captaining the team without much notice, but without him, no W.
On a fun note: Jeannette’s Grandmother loves Nate Robinson; she always wants him to play because he brings such “spitfire” to the game. She gets very annoyed with Doc when he doesn’t bring him in when she thinks he should. When Nate was playing so long tonight, and so well, and we were all jumping and and waving our towels and yelling and screaming – Jeannette turned to her random neighbor seatmate at the Garden and screamed (to be heard above the din): MY GRANDMA LOVES THAT GUY!!!
Also on a fun note: Our friends Barb & Jon flew out for the game – and even though their visit was short we had a GREAT time with them. We even broke the seal on our BeerWorks boycott – it had to be done sometime, and why not with great friends? Please come back soon Barb & Jon!
A little postgame video of Shrek & Donkey for you:
National Anthem:
Sneaky Rondo:
AAHHHHH!!!!:
Let Me Hear It!!!!:
Our Last Starting Line Up We’ll See This Year
Perk:
Rondo:
Ray Allen:
KG:
The Captain and The Truth!:
Come Back Doc!:
Here we go:
AND GINO!!!!
WOOOHHOOO!:
JFJ’s last game this season:
Barb & Jon, J & Josh celebrating the W with our own postgame conference:
08
Jun 10
NBA Finals, Game 3: Celtics v Lakers
(91-84) L
We were displeased.
Lakers now up 2-1 in the series.
On a personal note, the 9pm start time is brutal for getting home after the game at a reasonable time to get to bed to be able to work properly the next day. We rode our bikes to the game as it cuts our commute drastically. But this definitely takes away from our “digest time”. Normally we walk home. This walk either lets us feast on the glory and come down from the high of a good win – or lets us sit (read: walk) and stew and analyze each play where it all wrong. By the time we get home we have calmed down enough from either the loss or the win to be able to sleep. Biking home does not allow this, we get home too quick, we don’t talk while we bike, and biking only brings your adrenaline and senses up – not down. Sleep didn’t come easy after Game 3.
Sane people keep reminding us it is a 7 game series.
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May 10
Red Sox v Royals
A long time ago we bought Red Sox tickets. We felt lucky to have gotten in to the infamous “online waiting room” and to have been able to purchase tickets at face value. Little did we know that this game would fall during a week that was slightly crazed for us, what with the Celtics doing so well in the Playoffs and our Greg Laswell‘s tour coming through town the same week. I don’t know if it’s lucky or not that nothing fell on the same night. It might have been better had we been forced to make a decision and pare down the event list for the week.
Needless to say, we walked over to Fenway Saturday night and enjoyed a low key baseball game on a windy, but nice and temperate, evening. Red Sox won (1-0). Our tickets were SRO – we were worried that might be a bit a much after standing all night at the Celtics game the night before, but it worked out just fine. We really don’t mind SRO at Fenway. It’s enjoyable.
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May 10
Eastern Conference Finals CHAMPIONS, Game 6: Celtics v Magic
We didn’t originally plan to attend this game, but after watching the stinker of Game 4 at the Garden and the atrociousness of Game 5 from our couch – we wanted to be back at the Garden for Game 6 and be as loud as we could (who knows if it really helps), to feel like we did our part to help the Celtics. But we did NOT want to see the C’s lose the series after going up 3-0. Thankfully, we saw an awesome W (96-84).
Since these weren’t a part of our playoff package tickets we were in different seats. They were up against the wall – and surprisingly awesome! Our two seats were right at the end of the stair – no chairs in front of us – so we didn’t have people walking in front of us to get in or out of a row. In addition, we were able to stand for the entire game (which was preferable for an exciting playoff game like this) and didn’t have to worry about blocking the view of people behind us. It was awesome.
We only brought the phone camera this game – so the photos aren’t so great, but here is the view down our stairs:
The media crush as the Celtics win and the Eastern Conference Championship trophy is awarded (you can still see Gino in the first photo):
Jeannette’s new shirt for Ray Allen:
We were VERY EXCITED:
We went out and celebrated. The evening ended in a park eating McD’s with a statue.
