My Mom - World Series MVP
I'll admit that I am a Yankees fan. That is the result of growing up with a step-brother who worshipped Carlton Fisk and Yaz and talked non-stop about Rico Petrocelli, Fred Lynn and Jim Rice. I started rooting for the Yanks just for spite, and I'm not even a big baseball fan. I loved seeing the Red Sox fail miserably year after year, and I can honestly say it is the only team I really dislike. If the Colts beat the Patriots in the playoffs, I'd probably root for the Colts in the Superbowl with a kind of AFC pride.
So this year is especially disgruntling for me. I don't care that the Yankees didn't get to the World Series. Like I said, I'm not a big baseball fan. The only major sport I care less about is hockey. But for the Red Sox to be so dominating, for them to be the first team to come from a 3-0 deficit, and worst of all to be living in Massachusetts at the time where everyone you run into is talking about "breaking the curse" is just too much.
Not only that, but my wife, who has never really been the biggest sports fan in the world, is getting interested in sports through my enthusiasm. As she learns more, she finds it more interesting. Now SHE is a Red Sox fan. And look at my mother, who never paid any attention to sports when I was growing up. She is now a Personal Care Assistant, so she goes to people's homes to take care of them when they need assistance, sort of like a nurse who makes house calls. She has this one client who she really likes, and he is a Red Sox fan. She would watch the Red Sox while she was at his house, and became a big fan. My mom, the Red Sox fan? I should have known hell was about to freeze over.
So that is why I nominate my mother for MVP, or at least MVF, Most Valuable Fan. They couldn't win a World Series in 86 years. My mother becomes a fan and BAM! They make the St. Louis Cardinals look like a Little League team. I knew she was a powerful woman.
So this year is especially disgruntling for me. I don't care that the Yankees didn't get to the World Series. Like I said, I'm not a big baseball fan. The only major sport I care less about is hockey. But for the Red Sox to be so dominating, for them to be the first team to come from a 3-0 deficit, and worst of all to be living in Massachusetts at the time where everyone you run into is talking about "breaking the curse" is just too much.
Not only that, but my wife, who has never really been the biggest sports fan in the world, is getting interested in sports through my enthusiasm. As she learns more, she finds it more interesting. Now SHE is a Red Sox fan. And look at my mother, who never paid any attention to sports when I was growing up. She is now a Personal Care Assistant, so she goes to people's homes to take care of them when they need assistance, sort of like a nurse who makes house calls. She has this one client who she really likes, and he is a Red Sox fan. She would watch the Red Sox while she was at his house, and became a big fan. My mom, the Red Sox fan? I should have known hell was about to freeze over.
So that is why I nominate my mother for MVP, or at least MVF, Most Valuable Fan. They couldn't win a World Series in 86 years. My mother becomes a fan and BAM! They make the St. Louis Cardinals look like a Little League team. I knew she was a powerful woman.
posted by Bill @ 7:31 AM
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