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.

 

Celtics Game #3

Lakers vs. Celtics.  Totally cool (this is basketball in cast anyone needs a refresher course.)  I’m not a huge basketball fan, but it’s really hard not to get caught up in this fantastic sports season that the Boston teams are having.  So far, in the championships, the Celtics have won the first two games, but they have been at home in Boston, but now the series moves to LA and all the celebs.  I think I may watch to see the famous people in the crowd  

Nightmares

For some reason I’ve been having horrible nightmares lately.  My doctors say that there is nothing that they can do for them.  I’ve always had vivid dreams, but never nightmares this bad.  So I came up with the idea that I should stop watching TV late at night that has any kind of violence or bad message (no more Law and Order or CSI for me) or reading magazines with depressing or negative messages.  Not even mystery books.  I’ve also begun to put soothing music on in my room before I go to bed.  That seems to be helping.  I’m just frustrated with the lack of sleep!

New England Pats WIN final game of season!!!

The New England Patriots, who play at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA (which is about 15 minutes from where I live) won their final game of the season giving them a perfect 16-0 record.  Boy, was tonight’s game a close one against the NY Giants, but the Pats pulled it off, just like they’ve done all season.  I’m not as big a football fan as I am a baseball one (just to remind everyone that my beloved Red Sox won the World Series this year!)  But it’s been cool living here near where the Pats play, especially tonight, because other football records were broken too.  The Pats broke the record for most points scored in a regular season (589) Tom Brady broke the NFL record for most Touchdown passes in a regular season (50) and Randy Moss broke the record for most TD passes received/caught during the regular season (23).  This is so awesome!!!  (And many apologies to my Cheddar Head friends in the Dairy State that I switched my football allegiance from the Packers to the Patriots, um, about 13 years ago.  It’s been much more interesting )

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.

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