My husband never watches baseball. Or football or soccer or golf. He will occasionally watch some basketball. He watches the Tour de France obsessively, as well as the major bike races in Italy and Spain. (If only there were some in the USA.)
Tonight he has the baseball game on (he said it is “a couple of teams”). (…Red Sox and … Yankees…) I have asked him about it twice and he is not telling me why. I am so confused!
Is this game important or something? Is this the World Series?
Really! I can be in the room with a game and not know who is playing. I had to watch for a minute to see who it is.
When it comes to sports, ignorance is usually bliss.
This series between Boston and New York has been heavily marketed. The two teams are arch-rivals with a long and bizarre history; New York is the premiere franchise in all of North American pro sport, and Boston is a team with a history of heartbreak and bizarre last-minute losses dating back to the days of Woodrow Wilson. Due to that, a variety of historical connections, geographic proximity and their current preeminence as the sport’s two big financial powers, a Boston-New York playoff series is treated by the media as the biggest battle of rivals since Rome conquered Carthage.
Your husband is, like a lot of guys, probably just swept up in the hype.
It’s the American League Championship Series. New York is up 3 games to 1.
But right now, the Red Sox are trying to make it 3 games to 2, as it’s currently in the top of the 11th. If New York wins tonight, they’re headed to the World Series.
The National League Champ. Series is a little more interesting right now, IMO. Houston-St. Louis tied at two games apiece.
Well thank you, thank you very much.
I’ve never seen him caught up by hype before. He seems pretty calm to be hyped up.
It happens to all of us at one time or another. I once bought a ticket to see Independence Day.
This may be the first time I’ve admitted that in public.
Maybe he feels a little out of the loop with all the other guys at work, and wants to be able to join in tomorrow when they talk about the game.
I must be the only person who thought of the movie Airplane! when I saw this thread:
“…Jim never vomits at home…”
(Link)
Couldn’t help myself. Yeah, it’s the series. I hope your husband enjoys the game!
If you were going to watch one game this year, this was a good one to pick. Red Sox over the Yankees, 5-4 in the 14th, in the longest postseason game in history.