Heavy accents, generic sports gear, and bandwagon fans.... .oh I can't wait to go to Fenway tomorrow night. In my three years living in Boston I have probably attended close to 10 Red Sox games. I have seen comebacks, playoff losses and drama. However, the one thing I have never experienced in Fenway or Yankee Stadium, is a Yankee-Red Sox game. There are certain moments in sports where everything gets turned up a notch. A Yankee-Red Sox series in September, or for that matter any month is one of them. Does this series have playoff implications? Kind of. I'd like to think there is still a small chance at the division. But that has nothing to do with what I'm writing about.
So far, I have gone to games at Fenway against the likes of the White Sox, Blue Jays, Orioles, Mariners, etc. I have taken in the adrenaline at Fenway, and kept it inside. While others have cheered, I have sat. While others have booed, I have remained silent. I do not wear Yankee gear to Fenway while the Yankees are not playing. I will not cheer against the Red Sox, by rooting for other AL teams. I have sat in my seat respectfully, drank beers, and chatted it up like any other fan. However, Friday is a new animal.
I unsuccessfully failed to acquire a Joba Chamberlain jersey this past week. For whatever reason, they don't sell the t shirt jersey or as Bill Simmons likes to call them, then J-Jersey, for Joba yet. (ok they kind of do but I don't want to pay $31). Instead I will be wearing a Jeter, T-shirt jersey, and a white Yankee hat. It's times like these where I wish I was in NY and had access to a authentic Andy Phillips jersey. I will be cheering the Yankees on as if I was at Yankee stadium. I will certainly locate any Yankee fans in my vicinity, band together with them and become as obnoxious as possible.
The pitching matchup for Friday is Dice-K against Pettite. Any chants that you guys can think of please post in the comment section and I will be sure to use them Friday night.
Girls in Red Sox gear, pale, fat white guys in Ortiz jerseys. I can't wait. Nervous, pessimistic men in their 40s who have witnessed 5 game sweeps in Fenways, blown 13 game division leads, Aaron bleeping Boone, and more... I can't wait to get under the skin of the Red Sox nation.
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Pettite is a hooooooomoooooooooo...nananananananananananananananana
wait if you unsuccessfully failed then you succeeded right?
and why were you trying to fail in the first place?
Here is my lease favorite chant:
DICE K DICE K, chi chong chung, DICE K DICE K, wang wu wa, you have a slanty eyes and I had a fro, DICE K DICE K, yang yung ya, your mom has a slanty vagina and smells like a seasame seed.
did i violate you so bad in week 1 that you are now too afraid to offer your nfl picks?
put a sock in it fellas!
huh-ha!
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