Only 1 More Week 'Till the Real Thing

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I think this week may be the hardest week to be a Red Sox fan. By now the lure and excitement of red uniforms and palm trees has worn off, and the tease of real games starting up north reaches a Christmas Eve type of anticipation level. You can quench your thirst by looking at how many pitches player X threw and how many of those were for strikes. You know that young kid played better then the veteran, but he'll still begin his year in Pawtucket.

I know soon enough I'll have a ritual back that seems like forever since its last been with me. Don & Remy will soon enough begin spinning the soundtrack of yet another summer of mine. I'll begin that ever hard question of, "Should I buy a scalped ticket tonight?", as I help out-of-town New Englanders navigate the T system leaving work. I know that soon enough I'll be walking over that gradual incline, right behind homeplate, happily double fisting my overpriced Bud Light, as I slowly have that beautiful Fenway Green engulf me. I'll smell grass, step on peanut shells, hear batting practice, and smile from ear to ear.

Like a modern day Paul Revere I race through the net with less then a week away, screaming; "The Red Sox are coming! The Red Sox are coming!" and I couldn't be any happier. See you soon boys.

Comments

[j9]

"as I help out-of-town New Englanders navigate the T system leaving work."

I don't believe that for a second!

Summer = Remdawg, and I am totally cool with that :-)

[Greg]

Even though it snowed a couple days ago, I too am excited for baseball to start. It's always sort of extended Spring Training until they get here to Boston, especially opening in KC this year. Daisuke gets one warm up until he gets thrown in the fire. Ichrio, Patriots Day, and of course, the Yankees, in his first 3 starts at Fenway.

Talk radio will have plenty to talk about - thats for sure. I predict we'll be sending him back to Japan after at least one of those starts, but 2-1 with a 4.34 ERA through 4 starts will be looking just fine.

[Lou]

I read this post and smiled from ear to ear myself. I can't wait to pick up the sports section and see articles about what happened instead of what might happen or what should happen.