The 2007 Red Sox are the WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!!!!!!

In a 4 game sweep, the Boston Red Sox beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 in nine stressful innings (stressful at least for the fans.)  There was nothing special or unusual about this same, other than the pitchers for both teams were totally awesome and the Boston bats came through when needed.  The post game celebration is beginning now (it’s quarter past midnight.)  But I’m tired, so I’m going to go back to bed.  The other good thing about the win is that now I can finally get some good sleep and begin posting about the patriots and the bruins.

They just announced that Mike Lowell is the World Series MVP.  Awewsome!

YEAH SOX!!!!!   YOU RULE!!!!!

Ok I missed the game (victory) last night- Game 3

Well the Red Sox went to Colorado and beat the Rockies 10-5.  That’s like a football score (Touchdown and field goal against field goal and two point conversion, if that’s possible) 

I’m trying a new tactic here.  Now you have to understand something.  I’m sick right now.  Not the, I’m coughing a little, or I have a tummy ache because I ate too much kind of sick.  I have the full body aches, a fever, dizziness, I’m sleeping in 13 hour spurts, not really hungry, sore throat and hurt ear kind of sick.  There is a name for this, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue.  I’ve been battling these diseases for about 15 years.  When they hit, they take control of my life.

So the ickiness has set in and I knew I had to sleep last night.  So I video taped the game and watched it this morning.  I have to say that part of the game of baseball is anticipation.  It’s the time in between pitches that gets our hearts pumped and our minds invested in the game.  It totally loses something fastfordwarding through commercials and boring commentators.  Although this game was the longest game in World Series History at 4 hours and 19 minutes, so I guess it was probably the best one to watch on tape.

Another piece of history was made.  It was the first time that 2 Rookies- Jacobi Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia (who just happen to play for the Sox) had a combined 7 hits and 4 RBI’s in one game.  Just an interesting statistic.

GO SOX 

(Oh, PS the Patriots won again today.  They are undefeated)

Another Red Sox Win- Plus Free Taco

It’s quarter after midnight here in the Massachusetts part of Red Sox Nation and due to the awesome pitching of Kurt Schilling, Hideki Okajima (the Player of the Game,) and of course our closer Jonathan Papelbon the Red Sox squeaked by with another win tonight.  Mike Lowell drove in the second (and game winning) run for the Sox which was scored by David “Big Papi” Ortiz.  The final score of tonight’s game was 2-1 Red Sox. 

In addition, in the 4th inning Jacobi Ellsbury stole second base and with that stolen base Taco Bell will offer a free taco to everyone in America on Tuesday, October 30 from 2-5 pm at participating restaurants. (Whew, I got all that information in )  So thanks to the Red Sox-even you Rockies fans can eat for free! 

Enjoy the pictures of Mike Lowell, Kurt Schilling and Hideki Okajima (I got them from the official Red Sox site.

GO SOX!

As of today Ben has been deployed for 39 days.

Sox Beat Rockies 13-1 in Game 1

I wasn’t planning on staying up to watch the game tonight.  My plan was to tape the game and first thing tomorrow (actually it would be this morning now that it’s 10 past midnight) watch the game without interruption.  But after the first half inning when Beckett threw 3 straight strike outs and then in the bottom of the 1st Dustin Pedroia (the lead off batter) hits a home run.  I’m HOOKED!  And the game just got better and better and better. 

For  2 reasons this game goes down in history.  It’s the first time in the World Series history that in the first inning where the top half were all struck out and then in the bottom of the 1st the lead off batter hits a home run.  The second piece of history of this game is that it is the largest margin of victory in a World Series.  (12 run margin)  The previous largest margin of victory was 11 games.  This game truly was one for the record books!

Lutheran Humor-Reformation Sunday

This coming Sunday (Sunday, October, 28, 2007) is Reformation Sunday.  For you non-Lutherans, it’s a big holiday Sunday where we wear red, usually confirm our teenagers and celebrate the fact that Martin Luther decided to rebel and posted his 95 thesis on the church door in Wittenburg, Germany.  In honor of Reformation Sunday, I found the following song at the Old Lutheran web site.  Enjoy!

The Reformation Polka
by Robert Gebel

[Sung to the tune of "Supercalifragilistic-expialidocious"]

When I was just ein junger Mann I studied canon law;
While Erfurt was a challenge, it was just to please my Pa.
Then came the storm, the lightning struck, I called upon Saint Anne,
I shaved my head, I took my vows, an Augustinian!  Oh…

Chorus:
Papal bulls, indulgences, and transubstantiation
Speak your mind against them and face excommunication!
Nail your theses to the door, let’s start a Reformation!
Papal bulls, indulgences, and transubstantiation!

When Tetzel came near Wittenberg, St. Peter’s profits soared,
I wrote a little notice for the All Saints’ Bull’tin board:
“You cannot purchase merits, for we’re justified by grace!
Here’s 95 more reasons, Brother Tetzel, in your face!” Oh…

Chorus:
Papal bulls, indulgences, and transubstantiation
Speak your mind against them and face excommunication!
Nail your theses to the door, let’s start a Reformation!
Papal bulls, indulgences, and transubstantiation!

They loved my tracts, adored my wit, all were exempleror;
The Pope, however, hauled me up before the Emperor.
“Are these your books?  Do you recant?” King Charles did demand,
“I will not change my Diet, Sir, God help me here I stand!” Oh…

Chorus:
Papal bulls, indulgences, and transubstantiation -
Speak your mind against them and face excommunication!
Nail your theses to the door, let’s start a Reformation!
Papal bulls, indulgences, and transubstantiation!

Duke Frederick took the Wise approach, responding to my words,
By knighting “George” as hostage in the Kingdom of the Birds.
Use Brother Martin’s model if the languages you seek,
Stay locked inside a castle with your Hebrew and your Greek!  Oh…

Chorus:
Papal bulls, indulgences, and transubstantiation -
Speak your mind against them and face excommunication!
Nail your theses to the door, let’s start a Reformation!
Papal bulls, indulgences, and transubstantiation!

Let’s raise our steins and Concord Books while gathered in this place,
And spread the word that ‘catholic’ is spelled with lower case;
The Word remains unfettered when the Spirit gets his chance,
So come on, Katy, drop your lute, and join us in our dance!  Oh…

Chorus:
Papal bulls, indulgences, and transubstantiation -
Speak your mind against them and face excommunication!
Nail your theses to the door, let’s start a Reformation!
Papal bulls, indulgences, and transubstantiation!

Wager accepted…

If you read the comments on the previous post, K has accepted my challenge that when the Red Sox beat the Rockies, she’ll post on her blog that the Red Sox rule.  Only she has no interest in baseball, so I’ll have to keep her updated on this site.  Game one starts tomorrow! Yeah!

(Oh, did anyone catch the Patriots game on Sunday.  They’ve won the first 7 games of the season.)

Ben has been deployed for 36 days.

Official World Series Challenge

I’d like to place a wager with my friend K who lives in Denver (home to the Colorado Rockies) that has something to do with the outcome of the World Series. 

I KNOW that my beloved Red Sox are going to beat the pants off of those Rockies and I am letting the whole world know.  I’m thinking something like that if the Red Sox win, K, you’ll post on your blog that I and my Red Sox are the ultimate and coolest things on the planet and you will give me a gold star.  If the Rockies, somehow manage to beat Manny, Big Papi and Papelbon, I will declare you and the Rockies to be the supreme coolest things and will give you a gold star.

Gauntlet thrown down.

Ben has been deployed for 35 days.

Red Sox Beat Cleveland in 7 games 11-2 – ON TO WORLD SERIES!!!

 (That would be Sox pitcher and cutie Jonathan Papelbon waving to Sox catcher and captain Jason Varitek)

It’s a little bit after midnight EST and the Red Sox came back from winning the first game and then losing the next three, to win the next three games clinching the title of

AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS!  No more Cleveland Rocks!  It’s now RED SOX NATION RULES!!

The World Series begins Wednesday.  Here’s the tentative schedule:

Game 1-October 24        Wed COL at BOS            8 pm     FOX TV

Game 2-October 25        Thurs COL at BOS          8 pm     FOX TV    

Game 3-October 27        Sat Bos at COL                 8 pm      FOX TV

Game 4-October 28        Sun Bos at COL               8 pm      FOX TV

Game 5-October 29       Mon BOS at COL             TBA if necessary     FOX

Game 6-October 31       Wed COL at BOS              TBA if necessary     FOX

Game 7-November 1     Thurs COL at BOS           TBA if necessary     FOX

It’s great that Boston has the home field advantage.  Because it was so cool to watch them win at home!  P.S. I’ll inform you with the times as soon as I get them. 

It’s now time to get the Red Sox Gear out and stock pile the sleep.  I’m heading to be now anyway.

Ben has been deployed for 34 days

A “Harry Potter” revelation

According to the Associated Press, in an interview conducted with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling today, one of the main characters in the Harry Potter series, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore is gay.  Yep, you read that right.  Here’s the article that I found on the Comcast website. 

Me, I have absolutely no problem with this.  But my next thought went to one young lady that I know who grew up with the Harry Potter series (and is the same age as Harry and Ron.)  She lives in a pretty conservative home and I’m not sure how either she or her parents are going to take the fact that Dumbledore is gay.  (Even though Dumbledore is a fictional character, having movies that make him life like makes it harder for us to distinguish fact from fiction.)

So why am I posting about this?  Because I think that every time some famous person (and in this case it’s a fictional person that has had an impact on an ENTIRE generation) or not famous person stands up and says, “yes, I’m gay,” or “yes, my husband/wife beat me” or “yes I suffer from this particular illness” the stigma attached to that is chipped away a tiny piece.

Working on the racism task force that I volunteer on, has helped me realize that the stigmas attached to people by other people are the hardest things to get rid of.  I think it’s about time that we look beyond the label of gay or lesbian etc. and see the men and women behind those labels.  That there are wonderful couples (I’ve been to their weddings) and wonderful families (I’ve been there to see their babies baptized.)  This is what matters-families and friends.  AMEN!

Ben has been deployed for 32 days 

Humorous Religious Misinterpretations

These are so funny.  As a child did you ever mis-hear something and then keep repeating your mistake until you believed it to be true?  Well, here’s a list of classic misinterpretations courtesy of Mikey’s Funnies. 

MISINTERPRETATIONS 

~ When my twin daughters were young, I taught them to say the Lord’s Prayer before going to bed.  As I listened outside their door, I could hear them say, “Give us this steak and daily bread, and forgive us our mattresses.”  

~ My son, who is in nursery school, said, “Our Father, who art in Heaven, how didja know my name?”  

~ I remember thinking it said “Give us this day our jelly bread.”  

~ I recall reading something years ago about the Pledge of Allegiance. Some child thought it began, “I led the pigeons to the flag.”  

~ When I was little, I often wondered who Richard Stands was. You know: “I pledge allegiance to the flag. And to the republic for Richard Stands.”  

~ When my husband was 6 years old, he thought a certain Prayer was “He suffered under a bunch of violets.” The real words were “under Pontius Pilate,” but at that age, he didn’t know better. To this day, we still snicker in church whenever that prayer is read.  

~ My mother spent her early childhood saying, “Hail Mary, full of grapes.”  

~ When my older brother was very young, he always walked up to the church altar with my mother when she took communion.  On one occasion, he tugged at her arm and asked, “What does the priest say when he gives you the bread?” Mom whispered something in his ear.  Imagine his shock many years later when he learned that the priest doesn’t say, “Be quiet until you get to your seat.”  

~ When I was younger, I believed the line was “Lead a snot into temptation.” I thought I was praying for my little sister to get into trouble.

[forwarded by Jack Williams]

 

B. has been deployed for 30 days now