Play lots more ball!

Schilling on the hill. Game 1 of the American League Division Series. Angels vs. Red Sox. Tickets to all games at the Big A nee Edison Field nee Angel Stadium. First game yields a victory for the Red Sox (9-3). One down, two more to go before the ALCS.

Life is good, even though I'm wearing my Boston hat to the games...Here's why.

In what passes for clear logic for me, I have a pecking order of teams:

• Rangers (the team I grew up following)
• Red Sox (the team of my ancestors)
• Angels (the team I saw win a World Series and my current locale)

...way down below...

• New York Yankees (may they live in the inferno forever)

It seems silly, but that's the code I live by. My Rangers will always take precedence, but the Red Sox deserve my affiliation because it's the team my father and grandfather root(ed) for and, heck, the BoSox are usually better than my Rangers. Once a team with a higher priority is eliminated, I go for the team in the next list. Consider it a priority queue. Hah.

Since we have a mini-plan to the Angels (such that we can see the Red Sox and Rangers when they are in town), we have playoff tickets for all the Angels home games. And, hence, since they are playing Boston in the first round, my father and I are in the odd predicament of rooting for the Angels to lose. Which sort of sucks. But, refer to the pecking order above.

I'll be heading over to the Big A after my discussion tomorrow (shh, I'm going to try to cut it off early) in the vain hope that I'll make it there for the first pitch. We'll see...but I've got lots of things I need to cover in the discussion section tomorrow.

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