dateline: new england
my late father and i never really saw eye to eye on much of anything...
but when i was a kid we did share a love of three things: loony toons, the zoo at roger williams park in providence and the mostly mired in last place at the time boston red sox...
to this day the expression "you're dithhhspicable" will still bring tears of laughter...
i thought of the old man a few times while back in new england this weekend.
first up..........
FENWAY PAHK!!!!!!!
my childhood hero ~ ted williams
haven't been here since 1975...got the same rush walking up the ramp...
...and seeing the green monster!
some of the tools of the trade
just another one of those weirdly juxtaposed sports moments....a buddhist monk behind me was trying to get seattle mariners rightfielder ichiro suzuki's attention during batting practice...he kept saying "thank you" to everyone around him...you are welcome.
on the mound for the sox was knuckleballer tim wakefield. never seen a knuckleball pitcher up close.....damn, the ball really does dance all over the place....
kid number one was having a great time...
as was kid number 2...
david ortiz (AKA big papi) drove in the first 2 sox runs
seattle went on to tie the game.....it was up to jonathan paplebon to hold them off.
jeez, that stare even had me scared....
bottom of the 9th....runner on third...carl crawford at the plate...carl's batting .124....."here we go again", i think....just like when i was a kid...crawford swings...
base hit up the middle! runner scores!
the sox win!!!!
the old man would have loved it. ah, good ol' fenway park
probably the only park where they still climb a ladder to change the scoreboard...
next up....they tell me it's all happening at the zoo.
listening to paul simon ~ so beautiful or so what
