Red Sox

It’s a great time to be a Red Sox fan. The beginning of the season always seems to be, eh? Right now - if you’re a statistics junkie - you know that Manny Ramirez leads all MLB hitters with a .405 average and Pedro Martinez leads all MLB pitchers with a 1.44 ERA. First place in the AL East is a sweet feeling. How long will it last?

I have to walk in front of the CEO’s office on my way to my office at HSND. This morning she said she didn’t know who I was because I was wearing my Red Sox hat. “I don’t recognize you unless I see that shiny blonde hair!” I laughed and took off my hat so she could see my hair. I said I was thinking of going blue. She thought that was just terrific. She told me to go to baydomain.com, her daughter’s site. “She has done all kinds of things to her hair … purple, blue, green …” I said, “Cool! I’ll have to check that out!” What else are you going to say to the CEO? So I get to my office and I go right to it.

I am very impressed. Baydomain.com is a cool indie music/art/culture site that focuses on the Tampa Bay area. If you’re in the area you should visit.

The CEO’s daughter, Cynthia, also runs enthusia, which is a hep musician-photography site. She’s photographed Sonic Youth and the Cure in concert. There are some awesome shots.
Go. Now.

The BoSox will be in Tampa for two series before the end of this season. August 28, 29, and 30 (Mon, Tue, Wed) and then September 29 and 30 (Fri, Sat). The first four games are at 7:15 pm (FL time) and the last game is @ 4:15 on a Saturday afternoon. I will be doing my damn best to be at all five of these games. If you can get here, let me know and I’ll get extra tickets. Yes, you. You! I’m talking to YOU!

Yesterday was faboo. The only thing about it that was no fun was that eventually it ended. I was up at 0830, goofed on the computer for a while, went shopping with Sylvia, played on the computer some more, went to the AoS, played in the pool for a few hours, and *then* we started to really have fun. Chris and I walked to Todd’s place to steal his grill, then drove here to get Sylvia. We got to the AoS just as the keg was arriving. There was corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, steaks, chicken … I spent most of the early party inside watching one of the best baseball games I’ve ever seen and devouring about 3 pounds of cow, but everyone else was at the pool (which is right next to Chris’ place). After the Red Sox beat the Yankees Chris and I did some laundry-jumping to celebrate (leaping from the roof of the laundry building into the pool), tossed Chuck and Andy into the pool several times, and pretty much partied like we had nothing to do the next day well into the 4 o’clock hour.
Footnotes:
- there was no Coke in the machine at the pool so Sylvia had to settle for white russians instead of colorado bulldogs
- Andy was not wearing ‘being tossed into the pool’ clothes
- Paul and Bart are good people to have your back if there’s trouble possibly brewing (nothing happened)
- Chris makes a mean steak and chicken marinade
- Craig, Todd, Chuck, and Chris are huge Family Feud fans
- four years of medical school do not do much for your tolerance
- it was great to know that Jenny, mom, Uncle Dic, Jorge, and Mike were all watching the game
- Bart knows as many “walks into a bar” jokes as I do
- I have great friends, both in meatspace and cyberspace

I will have to tell Axodys that it is never stylish to mock the Red Sox.