Baseball bites...

So Pedro came 'home' last night. Wanna know who sort of missed it?? ME. Wanna know why that stinks?? Because I was at the damn game. I didn't see the video montage on the 'tron - because well, our seats are up under the RF deck. And then when everyone stands up to cheer - I can't see what people are cheering about. (No making fun - I can't help it that I am vertically challenged.) So that was a little frustrating. Well, I guess I will just have to cheer loudly in my living room tonight when he is ACTUALLY pitching... Irritate the neighbors... Hehe - starting to feel better just thinking about it...

Tribute to the 86 Sox last night. People cheered more when Bill Buckner's name was announced than they did for almost everyone else. Yeah, I thought it was weird too. I realized though that those are the guys who helped form my first baseball memories. I remember laying in my living room, on my stomach, on the floor, pretty late at night - watching the game. The ground ball went by, my grandfather freaked, yelled - "what a bunch of bums" and told me it was time for bed. Guess he probably didn't want me to see him cry.

Food for thought - Jon Lester, last night's starting Sox pitcher was 2 years, 9 months and 18 days old when that game happened. Feel REALLY old??? Yeah - me too.

Bronson is almost a definite for the All-Star game. As of today, June 28th - he is leading ALL OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL with an ERA of 2.58. I am resisting the urge to post a link to the espn.com stat page on our company website, boston.com and anywhere else I can think of that would send a BIG F-U message to all the naysayers. Can't think of anything that would make me happier. Well, I CAN - but it isn't October yet...

Went to NYC to see the Mets vs. the Reds a little over a week ago. Shea stadium is ummm, well - NOT Fenway. So many people have compared them but the way I see it - it's still a STADIUM - not a park. Wrigley, Camden and Fenway are the only parks that most agree FEEL like a baseball park should feel. I don't think that Shea is a converted football field (a la RFK in DC) - but it isn't a park either. I guess it falls somewhere in the middle.

SO yeah, Reds vs. Mets - betcha can guess who the Reds starting pitcher was... He pitched a CG (more time for me to watch and less time for the pen to screw things up), which was nice. We had seats on the field in left field - which would have been VERY cool, except there was ONLY one ball hit even in our general direction. I didn't even stand a chance of getting on TV. SO NOT COOL.

What do you think the odds are of catching a foul ball at a game? I told Frank last night that that would be way too much calculus for me. Because I firmly believe that I am NEVER going to catch one.

OK - I'm done... Just sayin'...