Monday, May 23, 2005
Matt Clement has the most disgusting beard in professional sports.
Okay, yes, Fenway is absolutely amazing, and beautiful, and I want to make sweet love to it, and all that stupid overblown shit. My memories of Wrigley are vague (it's been almost exactly ten years, after all), but Fenway definitely outstrips it in terms of charm and delight. It's an amazing ballpark, and I am completely thrilled that I got to be there yesterday. But god-damn, could it have been a more frustrating game? The Sox had Smoltz on the ropes every single inning, and easily could have scored several runs off of him. Smoltz burned through more pitches in 4 and 2/3 than Clement needed for the full nine. I got laughed at twice for cheering for the Braves, and twice had kids twelve years or younger loudly tell me that the Braves suck. That brief moment when the Braves led two to nothing was nice, but since Smoltz had already thrown a hundred pitches by then I knew the bullpen would be making a mockery of the whole thing sooner rather than later.
But yeah, other than the actual game, everything about yesterday was fantastic. Everyone should put the effort into going to Fenway at some point. It was probably the best birthday gift since being blind-folded and abandoned on an island in the middle of the Broad River.
Okay, yes, Fenway is absolutely amazing, and beautiful, and I want to make sweet love to it, and all that stupid overblown shit. My memories of Wrigley are vague (it's been almost exactly ten years, after all), but Fenway definitely outstrips it in terms of charm and delight. It's an amazing ballpark, and I am completely thrilled that I got to be there yesterday. But god-damn, could it have been a more frustrating game? The Sox had Smoltz on the ropes every single inning, and easily could have scored several runs off of him. Smoltz burned through more pitches in 4 and 2/3 than Clement needed for the full nine. I got laughed at twice for cheering for the Braves, and twice had kids twelve years or younger loudly tell me that the Braves suck. That brief moment when the Braves led two to nothing was nice, but since Smoltz had already thrown a hundred pitches by then I knew the bullpen would be making a mockery of the whole thing sooner rather than later.
But yeah, other than the actual game, everything about yesterday was fantastic. Everyone should put the effort into going to Fenway at some point. It was probably the best birthday gift since being blind-folded and abandoned on an island in the middle of the Broad River.
