day two.
i have to say, i was very excited yesterday to see that the red sox resigned curt schilling. i mean, obviously he didn’t have a great season last season — but he had a great post season, and he only wanted one more year. I don’t think that he is going to keep the sox from winning another championship, so what does it hurt to have him on the team? I am big on history; big on sentimental stuff. I think that the red sox orginization recognizes that schilling wanted to go out as a Red Sox player, and I think it means a lot to him and his family that he will finish his career here. the schilling family have been a wonderful addition to New England; all the charity, and money that they have funnelled into the area has been great, not only for the charities they help, but for New England, the Red Sox and baseball in general.
you know, with all the money that baseball players make (or pro athletes in general) make, you’d think more of them would have a greater impact on the world. i know we hear more about the bad (michael vick, barry bonds steriod use, a-rod’s extramarital affairs) than the good (schilling’s fight for ALS, the josh beckett foundation, pitch in for kids) but when it comes down to it, you have to search for athletes doing good in the communities they represent. My hat goes off to those athletes who see what they have the power to do and use that power. i applaud the efforts of Curt and Shonda Schilling, Tim Wakefield, The Red Sox Foundation, Josh Beckett, Jason Varitek, and Dustin Pedroia who are very active in donating their time and money to charity.
something to think about: if you took $2.00 a week and donated it to your favorite charity, that’s $104.00 a year…you have no idea how much a $100 can buy when it needs to.
for love of the game.
…so this is my first time. please be easy on me. and right off the bat, so i don’t get a million comments on this, i write with sentence structure but with total disregard for capital letters — deal with it.
basically, i am a fan of baseball…all baseball. i will admit that i am a diehard red sox fan, but i also like the dodgers. well, i did, until they hired joe torre. i don’t know if i can watch anymore. but i will say this…joe torre got a bum rap from the yankees…that’s all i’m saying.
i have been a red sox fan for my entire life. my parents used to take me to fenway when i was little…i have an entire roll of pictures of Wade Boggs…and I met Mo Vaughn…I remember thinking that I was as big as his leg, probably not even as big as his leg. i lived in Boston for a couple of years while I went to college and lived a few blocks away from fenway — game nights were hell on my commute from school to my apartment, but the atmosphere in the city was great.
something i don’t think anyone other than a red sox fan can say, the whole city of boston has a different feeling on game nights. i used to love to just go down to fenway (even if i didn’t have tickets) to be around the people. one of my friends and i used to wait until the top of the 7th and sneak into the ball park…by sneak i mean, walk in through a back gate that wasn’t guarded (security used to be pretty lax at fenway)…we’d get these cool seats in center field and watch the last couple of innings…good memories.
so in my first blog, i said pretty much nothing…but it will get better, i hope. stay tuned.
for love of the game.
