I am happy for my 90-year-old father-in-law that his beloved Red Sox won the World Series last night. As a Sox fans, since his teens, he has been blessed to see them overcome the curse of the Bambino and take the title in 2003 and yet again 4 years later accomplish this once more in a grand style.
Now comes the downside, his equally rabid Boston fan daughter, will now make our home a 24 hour 7 monument to teams from Boston. I will be greeted with “hey we won the World Series” and “the Patriots are undefeated you know” for the next week at least.
Our home already has an autographed Curt Schilling baseball from the 2003 series, the bloody sock and an autographed jersey. Various hats and shirts for both the Red Sox and Patriots and several other odd tributes adorn other parts of the house as well.
The angst that surrounds me of course comes for my semi loyalty to the Seattle Seahacks and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The good news on Seattle was that they went undefeated this weekend: they had the week off. The angels are still trying to decide what city it is they really play for. Look just because you couldn’t but the Dodgers is no reason to be allowed to change the name and location of the team you were able to purchase. What next, “the San Diego Padres just 80 miles south of Los Angeles”?
I would like to think that when any Team I cheer for defeats a team my wife is a fanatic over, that I would take the high road and not gloat. Of course we all know better. There is as much chance of that as there is in Bill Buckner being able to catch a simple base hit up the 1st base line.
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