I’m tired, but for a reason (I think…)

It’s 11:53 pm and for some reason I can’t sleep, so I decided that I’d write an entry letting you all know that I’m having trouble sleeping tonight.  It might have something to do with the fact that both the Boston Celtics and the Boston Bruins won tonight, giving both teams a very good shot at advancing into the next round of each of their respective playoffs.  It’s been really funny being a New England sports fan lately, because on any given evening (like tonight) you could have the Celtics, Bruins and Red Sox playing at the same time.  I’d like to thank the people who invented 1) the remote control, allowing me to flip and watch the Celtics and Bruins at the same time.  And I’d also like to thank the person who invented the DVR, because I was able to tape Dancing with the Stars, and not miss a minute of my reality tv addiction.  OK, I’m going to try and go to bed.  Maybe not.  Letterman has Alec Baldwin on.  He’s always good on Letterman.  I may not sleep for days if this sports thing continues.  Or if Letterman keeps getting good guests.

October, 1982, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Do you know where you were in October 26 years ago?  I know where I was.  I was at the old County Stadium in the great city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin cheering on the Milwaukee Brewers the last time they were in the playoffs (and the World Series against St. Louis.)  My family had tickets to the playoffs and the World Series, which was absolutely unbelievable!!!  My dad grew up a die hard Boston Red Sox fan (at that time, the Sox hadn’t won the World Series since 1918) and loved baseball.  And my dad taught my brother and me to love baseball too.  When I was growing up, the Milwaukee Brewers had a great program for families, where for a really low price, you could buy something like 6 or 8 tickets a year for children under 13 and the parents would get a reduced price as well.  So going to the baseball games was the big entertainment for our family.  We didn’t take vacations, with my dad working full time and my mom being a full time student getting her Ph.d, and them both doing full time parenting, so being together at Brewer games is really what I remember most.  And then as a teenager, my friends and I would go to a couple of games together.  (Q. and I had some crushes on players as I remember ?!?!)

Back to 1982.  Because my dad had lived his entire life watching the Red Sox lose, when the Brewers made it to the playoffs, my dad told my mom and I quote “if we have to mortgage the house to get tickets, we’ll do it.”  Wow!  Well, they didn’t have to do any refinancing, because when mom went down to County Stadium to see if tickets were available, they had just released the tickets that other baseball clubs didn’t want, so we had tickets for both series BEHIND HOME PLATE.  It really was a dream for all of us (except for the Brewers losing the World Series to St. Louis.)  I think my photos from that time are at my folks, so I’ll post them when I find them.

I was back in M’waukee a year and a half ago and stocked up on Brewer gear for my family (they changed the logo a couple of years ago.)  So I’m set to watch the Brewers.

And my beloved Red Sox made it as the wild card in the American league, so they’ll be playing too.  I don’t know what I’m going to do, with all of this baseball going on!  Luckily I have enough Brewer and Red Sox gear to be able to go a couple of days without doing laundry, I’ll just switch hats and shirts (and even socks!) when I need to!  Thank goodness hockey season doesn’t start until later in the month, otherwise, I’d be really confused!

Celtics visit Fenway

I’ve already posted that I’m not a huge basketball fan.  I love the other professional sports: baseball, football, soccer, ice hockey, just not basketball.  Oh and golf.  I hate golf.  Watching professional golf on tv is worse than waiting for a cake to bake, and let’s get real, we all know how much I hate to cook!  But technically I should love basketball, because I played it for like, four years in junior high and high school.  Wait maybe that’s why I hated it.  Once I found that throwing myself into band and drama was really my passion, I was a lot happier.  Yep, that’s it.  I hated, absolutely hated, playing basketball.  Ok Ms Hedlund let’s get back on track.  Back to the Celtics.

Well, the Boston Celtics won the basketball championships in 6 games against the LA Lakers.  I couldn’t stay up that late to watch the final game (although if it were hockey or baseball, I’d be up watching!)  So they had the rolling rally in Boston, like they have every time one of the teams wins a championship.  Only I’m used to seeing the rallies in the midst of winter (the Red Sox ones have been in November and the Patriots in January.)  So to see the duck boats (a boat with wheels that can drive on land and then go into the water and float like a boat-pretty cool!)  with the Celtics on them.  It was also a little weird seeing all the green-the Celtics color, when we’re used to the red, white and blue of the Sox and the Patriots.

So tonight, through the rain, the Celtics are being honored before the Red Sox-St. Louis Cardinals baseball game.  They came out in the duck boats and drove around the outfield of Fenway Park, before Paul Pierce will throw the starting pitch before the game.  If only the rain will stop.  I think I’m more bummed that the Sox game is being postponed, than I am that we won’t get to see the Celtics on the infield (because it’s wet!)  Oh well.  At least the Sox are wearing their green jerseys today.  It’s the second time in two years that they’ve worn them.  Red Sox wearing green.  Pretty interesting.

 

Opening Day at Fenway Park

I’m at home waiting for my pneumonia to clear and right now I’m watching the Boston Red Sox begin their season at home at Fenway Park.  I watched the pregame, and it was really cool that they had Bill Buckner throw out the first pitch.  (For those of you who have no idea who Bill Buckner is.  He used to be a dreaded Boston word who in 1986 was accused of losing the World Series with an error at first base.) Daisuke Matsuzaka is the starting pitcher for the Sox today.  I am so psyched that baseball is beginning again.  Something to look forward to.  Gotta go, the game’s going to start!  Go SOX!!

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!

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.