sox vs a's... my 4th game of the season...

tuesday night... another perfect baseball game. it was GREAT.

there are some convincing reasons to root for the cubs... and there are some convincing reasons to root for the white sox. but... as joe said... you can't have more than one #1 team. the phillies are my team. after that comes the tigers... then the orioles. i think i'd be okay to say that i'll "cheer on" the chicago teams... not promising my loyalty either way. whichever team's stadium i'm in... i'll cheer for that team... unless they're playing someone i like more. see the aforementioned teams. [ps... the red sox are sort of on that list as well for a number of reasons... one of which was johnny damon... who's now a stupid yankee... and the other was that they were the major league team for the wilmington blue rocks for a few years... which they no longer are... so b/c those two things slipped... i'm not as avid of a fan as i was before those things changed. schilling still plays for them, though... and i mean... come on... they're still the yanks biggest rivals.]

all that to say... since i was at a sox game tuesday night... i rooted for the sox!! [in games btwn the sox and the cubs... yikes... honestly... i think i'd have to root for the sox. at least i did last summer... but that was also b/c i lived two blocks from the ball park. glorious.]

it was SUCH a great game. final score... 10-4. the sox scored in 3 innings... 2 in the first... then 4 each in the second and fourth innings. i loved the first inning... thome got on and then dye knocked in a homer... which was great for the sox... but also for my fantasy team!!

so great, too, was alex cintron hitting a 2-run double, scoring, and then scoring again in the fourth. last summer... during a sox/tigers game i went to with andy... the tigers lost the game due to a homer or something by alex cintron. andy was more than a little disturbed... dumbfounded by the fact that the tigers lost b/c of "alex freakin' cintron." later in the summer... at another sox game... he did something else right... and of course... there was andy... ranting about "alex freakin' cintron." i loved it. so of course andy got a phone call during the second inning.

OH. but prolly the best parts of the game were watching the defense. SO many great plays. like the incredible catch made by the sox south paw pitcher when he sort of spun around clockwise to by sheer chance catch a ball whizzing past him on the left with the glove in his right hand. it was really, really cool. he had no way of knowing if he'd catch it or not... it was just perfect. there were other great defensive plays, too.

such a good game.

OH!! i almost forgot. the mass exodus. before the game started... all of a sudden... this crowd of people started coming onto the field from a utility-door type of thing in the outfield. they started circling the field... and kept coming and coming and coming. we had NO idea who they were and what they were doing. there were actually more ppl coming through the gate than sitting in the stands at that point. finally, they flashed on the jumbo-tron something about youth baseball and softball night or something. i mean... literally THOUSANDS of people were coming onto the field. after they circled around... they went back out. after they were all done... the stands started filling up. it was a pretty full park... which is always great. such a weird thing, though... the exodus. it was kinda fun, though. haha.

well... there's the game from my perspective. anyone else?? : )