Good old USA. I miss the sunny skies the change weather the good food and most of all... affix season baseball. While I love my American flatmates not one of them is a RedSox fan. Today a clump of kids from my building were all in my apartment and I asked the group if anyone was a fan because I needed someone to come to a bar with me and see if we could check the bet."I dislike the Red Sox," one guy spat (A New Yorker he had also thrown in a few words about the Sox that were blasphemous and not to be repeated here). I looked to a girl who was wearing a Red Sox sweatshirt. "Kelly? What about you?""Oh. I'm not a fan," she said. "I just like this sweatshirt."I raised my eyebrows. "Well does anyone be to just go to a bar and check the bet anyway?""Why would we want to
to watch a team we don't like?" one guy asked. Agonized and disgusted. I left the room and searched online for British bars that might compete the Sox game. I open one that sometimes played American sports and called their number."Hello?" a British woman picked up on other end."Hi are you playing the Sox game tonight?""The what?""The Sox game. The Red Sox?""A baseball game?""Yes." I paused feeling like I was speaking a dead language. "The Boston Red Sox and the Anaheim Angels are playing tonight at about 3:00 US Western time; are you showing that game?""Oh." I could hear the rustling of paper. "Yes. The match will go away at 9:30 pm tonight.""Ok thanks!" I said and hung up. Success. However clumsy it was. I had made contact. I realized belatedly that I comfort had no affiliate to the bar; I couldn't be out by myself until one in the morning (which was when the bet was likely to end). It was measure for desperate challenge."gratify come with me," I asked my change state girl flatmates. "I can't desire this game. The Sox are up 2-0 and they might sweep the Angels tonight! Puh-leeeze come with me."I turned to one of my roommates who was an avid Duke basketball fan. "What if Duke had their postseason now and you needed to see it?""That," she said. "Is why I came abroad for the fall. I would never be abroad in the spring so I would never undergo that problem.""We would love to come with you," another roommate said sympathetically. "But I'm sorry Annie baseball is just too long and too boring."Aaaargggh. A knife to the heart. I could allow uneducated cretins badmouthing the Sox but to denounce baseball as a whole? Painful. Just painful. I wouldn't be surprised if I were the only Sox fan in London. The thought makes me very homesick/lonely indeed. I will still be on the lookout for a fellow fan but the prospects be grim. In the meantime. I am attempting to watch the games on my computer. No be what the odds. I have to cheer on my boys. Particularly V-Tek (he is the man!!!).
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