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RAINED OUT.......BUT STILL SO MUCH FUN!
August 17, 2008
WELL......ME AND MOM WENT ON THE REDLINE ALL GEARED UP (PICTURES POSTED SOON) TO SEE BYRDS FIRST START IN A SOX UNI LAST FRIDAY NIGHT! GOT OFF AT PARK STREET, TOOK THE CLEVELAND CIRCLE GREENLINE TROLLEY TO KENMORE SQUARE! GETTIN OFF THE ELEVATOR.....THE FIRST THING U SEE WHEN U LOOK UP IS THE CITGO SIGN! IT WAS PRETTY EARLY.......ABOUT 230PM FOR A 705PM GAME! MY MOMS FIRST TIME BACK TO THE FENS SINCE SHE WAS 12! WALKIN DOWN THE STREET, EVEN THIS EARLY, WE HEAR THE GUYS, "I NEED TICKETS" THEN IN A WHISPER "TICKETS FOR SALE, YOU NEED ANY? GREAT SEATS".......BUT WE ALREADY HAD OUR TICKETS THANKS TO RED SOX NATION (THANKS AGAIN MOM)! DECIDING TO SAVE THE TOUR FOR ANOTHER DAY, I TOOK MOM AROUND AMERICAS MOST BELOVED BALLPARK. WALKED DOWN YAWKEY WAY, STOPPING IN SOME OF THE SHOPS AND THEN I BROUGHT HER OVER TO RIGHT BESIDE GATE "D"! AND NO SOONER DO WE GET OVER THERE, THAN A TRUCK COMES THROUGH THE GATE AND YOUK GETS OUT ON HIS CELLPHONE AND GIVES A WAVE! NEXT, A RED FERRARI COMES IN WITH NONE OTHER THAN BIG PAPI BEHIND THE WHEEL! THEN MIKEY LOWELL, JD DREW, ETC ETC.........NONE STOPPED FOR AUTOGRAPHS OR ANYTHING, BUT THEY ALL PRETTY MUCH GAVE WAVES, AND WE GOT A FEW GOOD PICTURES!
THEN WE WENT OVER TO THE PRO-SHOP AND CHECKED OUT SOME GEAR, TO WHICH MOM SAID "NAH, ITS CHEAPER ON REDSOX.COM AND CHOWDAHHEADS!" THEN AS WE'RE WALKIN OVER TO YAWKEYT AGAIN, TOM CARON STOPPED AND SAID HELLO.......SO I GOT A PICTURE WITH HIM! THEN AS THE NESN BOOTH IS REPORTING, TOM AND ECK GIVING THEIR ANALYSIS OF THE NIGHTS MATCH-UP, SOMEONE BUMPS INTO MOM AND HER HAND RUBS HIS ASS......WHEN SHE TURNED TO SAY EXCUSE YOU......ITS NONE OTHER THAN THE REMDAWG! AS HE'S WAITING FOR THE SPORTSDESK TO GO TO COMMERCIAL, WE WENT OVER AND GOT HIM TO SIGN MY HAT, AND SNAP A FEW PICS!
AFTER THAT I DECIDED TO TAKE HER OVER TO OUR GATE AND TO SAY HI TO AN OLD FRIEND! SO WE WALKED BY ALL THE PLAYERS CARS ON OUR WAY TO GATE "B"! TOOK A FEW PICS OF THE RETIRED NUMBERS AND THE RED SOX HALL OF FAME BANNERS ON THE WAY! THEN SAID HELLO TO AN OLD FRIEND AND TOOK SOME PICS WITH HIM.......GOOD OLD TEDDY BALLGAME! AFTER SITTING DOWN FOR A FEW AND ASKIN MOTHER NATURE TO BE KIND AND KEEP THE MOISTURE UP THERE IN THOSE DARKS CLOUDS OVERHEAD, 5:05PM CAME AND THE GATES OPENED UP!
WE WENT INSIDE AND HAD OUR PIC TAKEN WITH THE FIELD BEHIND US AND BOTH THE AL CHAMPS AND WORLD SERIES TROPHIES ON A TABLE IN FRONT OF US FOR 25 BUCKS! THEN WE WALKED UP THE RAMP AND I TOOK A PICTURE OF MY MOM INSIDE OF AMERICAS MOST BELOVED BALLPARK! WE HEADED DOWN TO PESKY POLE, SIGNED OUR NAMES WITH A NICE BIG "RSM 4 LIFE" AND I GOT YELLED AT BY SECURITY.....HIM SAYING "DAMN, WE JUST PAINTED THAT THING AGAIN LAST WEEK".......YET IT WAS COVERED WITH SIGNATURES ALREADY! TOOK SOME MORE PICS, AND HEADED OVER TO THE DUGOUT! JUSTIN MASTERSON WAS OVER THERE SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS.......BUT TRY AS I MIGHT, THERE WERE TOO MANY KIDS THERE ALREADY.....SO I WAS SATISFIED WITH JUST A FEW SNAP SHOTS OF HIM!
WE WENT UP TO OUR SEATS AS THE RAIN WAS STEADILY COMING DOWN AND BATTING PRACTICE WASNT HAPPENING TODAY! ON THE WAY WE GOT A COUPLE FOOTLONGS AND DRINKS! WE TOOK SOME MORE PICS FROM OUR SEATS AS THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME THAT THE GAME HAD BEEN POSTPONED AND RESCHEDULED FOR SEPT. 13TH!
NOW, OF COURSE WE WERE BUMMED! BUT IN NO WAY WERE WE TOO DISAPPOINTED.......BECAUSE WE HAD A GREAT TIME TOGETHER IN AMERICAS MOST BELOVED BALLPARK......AND LOOKED AT IT THIS WAY......AT LEAST WE CAN COME BACK AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER AND HAVE ANOTHER GREAT EXPERIENCE!
MOM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING ME GO WITH YOU.......I HAD THE MOST FUN WITH YOU! AND I CANT WAIT TILL THE 13TH WHEN WE CAN DO IT ALL AGAIN! I LOVE YOU MOM!
-IRISH WHITEY~RSM~™
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