16
Apr 10

Red Sox v Rays







We made it to our first Red Sox game of the season. We love our Boston Sports.

Our Right Field Box seats were so good! (so good, so good! Ha!)

It had been drizzling all game long, and pretty cold, but we were prepared.  We dressed like we were headed to a Pats game – double pants, plastic ponchos, snow boots…

So there we are sitting in the drizzle all game, then all of sudden, 1/2 inning to go, they call rain delay!  WHAT?  We realized the game was tied, but really?  You can’t at least wait one more 1/2 inning of drizzle to see if we can end this in regulation?  Good grief.  Still a fun night was had!

Plus, we love being able to walk to and from Fenway from our place.  Also, we generally walk back from the Garden after C’s games too!  We’ve been getting our exercise in!  I guess while I’m mentioning it, we walked to/from the Wang (Atoms For Peace concert) and the House of Blues (Dropkick Murphys concert).  I’m like a Boston salesman!

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So update, they didn’t honor tickets for people who were at the rain suspended game – instead they played it playground-style, finishing it the next night, before starting game 2 of the series.  Turns out the Sox lost (1-3) – kinda nice we saw a tie!


06
Jan 10

Dear Mr. Unit

Dear Mr. Unit,

You have been my favorite sports player of all sports since I went to my first baseball game. A little ballerina who played no “real sports”, my love of all things football, basketball, baseball and sometimes soccer began, and still begin, with you. I still own a scrapbook that I made of all the best newspaper articles written about you during my Jr. High & High School years. I hung a poster of you (your scary mug staring out over your mitt) in my room next to pictures of ballerinas in arabesque and my point shoes. You were my sports hero for your fastball and your size and your heart. I loved your genuine apologies while you rushed to the batter’s box when you would hit a guy – arms reaching out to him in apology after you hit him with a crazy, wild, Randy Johnson fastball that you couldn’t yet control.

I fell out of touch with baseball after I moved to San Diego for college (no Dave Niehaus on the radio there!), only going to the inter-league game to watch you hit (amazingly awkward!) when you were still a Mariner. Yet, I was heartbroken when you left the Mariners for the Astros, but I decided that I must now follow the Astros’ stats (though I had never heard of them prior, really), and then the Diamondbacks. By then I was heading to start grad school in Boston, living just across the Charles river  from Fenway. I could hear Sweet Caroline from my window. My first week in Boston, I went to a Red Sox game (against the Mariners!) and once again my love of baseball was ignited.

You broke my heart again when you shot down any talk of playing for Boston, saying the only way you would ever play in Fenway was wearing pinstripes! By now I hated the Yankees with the best of them. So much so that for the 2001 Diamondbacks/Yankees World Series I drove down to Manhattan to watch Game 7 in the NYC bars just to root against the Yankees and root for you! My friend and I had to change to a new bar every inning so we didn’t make too many enemies. It was amazing! My sports hero fighting my most despised team! I just knew you would come in to close like you did for the Mariners winning the ALDS final game in 1995 against the Yankees! It was magical for this little girl. Even when you did end up in pinstripes for awhile there, I logically plotted a way to root for you – as long as you weren’t playing the Sox. Thank you, Big Unit, for opening my eyes to the wondrous world of sports. I have loved following you and your accomplishments as my sports awareness has expanded from my little girl world. My most treasured, childhood sports memories will always be of the Kingdome – you pitching to Dan Wilson, with Edgar, Buhner, Junior there and Lou having a conniption. Thank you for everything, Randy.

Always your fan,

Jeannette



09
Oct 09

Celtics v. Knicks – Preseason Begins!

And so begins our Celtics season.

1st preseason home game.

Versus the Knicks.

We won.

96-82.

It was nice to be back in the Garden for basketball (we were just there for a Killers concert but it’s not as fun).

We should take a picture of our fridge with all our fun Celtics tickets (and our bummer Game 4, defunct ALDS Red Sox tix).  We did go Beerworks after the game and watch baseball play out in our favorite brewery.







06
Jun 09

Red Sox for Graduation



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10
Jun 08

June Fun

Fenway Lights From Our Place

Fenway Lights From Our Place

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