The Diary of A Simple Man

Last night I saw the Sox get their second and third runs before I went to sleep.

All night I dreamed about the game. Where they still in the lead? Had they finally won the Series? I dreamed that I was turning on the TV to see the score, turning on the computer and looking for a sports website, over and over.

I never dream about sports.

Anyone who knows me is probably mildly amazed, reading this.

This morning I woke up, went downstairs, and turned on the TV. Yes, they'd really won.

Caught my train, went into work - I've mentioned that I work a block from Fenway Park, right? The Fenway trolley stop is LITERALLY in my building's parking lot.

As I got out of the shuttle and walked towards the doors, I heard buzzing and looked up. Not one, but two helicopters were simply hovering above the parking lot.

I suspect that they're news copters, and that they're waiting to film the destruction of Boston by fire and rioters.

But so far, everything seems calm.

Okay, I'm really not a sports guy. I'm pure geek, I swear. I'm only aware of the rudiments of modern sports because of my deep, long-standing ties to Boston. And I really don't care about sports, or hardly at all.

Hell, when I was young quite a few people thought I was gay, and my complete lack of interest in sports may have been part of the reason. Okay?

But all that said, I have to say that I'm surprised by a lot of the coverage of the Red Sox/Yankees game, and even by the comments of a lot of Yankees fans. I understand disappointment - I am a long-time Red Sox fan, after all, even though only in the most tenuous sense. And you can bet that I understand bitterness and anger.

But Lowe pitched a hell of a game with his tendon temporarily sewed into his skin. Anyone who can't respect that sort of guts has some serious issues.

Of course, I'll also admit that it seems like a really stupid thing to do, and I would never do it in a million years. Not for a baseball game, anyway, no matter how important. But that said, I'm amazed that more people aren't acknowledging that it took inhuman fortitude to pitch a winning major league baseball game under that sort of pain.