After a quick cat nap, we walked over to Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. I had been there twice before but I couldn't resist a chance to revisit a walk
Oh, forgot to mention, the pitcher was Dice K (otherwise known as Matsuzaka). He's the huge phenom the Sox signed from Japan just so the Yankees wouldn't get him:-p The game itself was fun with the Sox winning 9-4 I believe. David Ortiz (known as "Big Papi") hit his first homerun at Fenway since April and the Sox exploded with a 5 run outburst in the 7th. We sang along to "Sweet Caroline" which is a Sox tradition, not Mets!
After the game, we hit the town for a few hours which left me with a precious few hours of sleep before waking up for the long run. Ah, the time of year where
The rest of the day I spent at the river doing what I do best: resting my eyes on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Oh, that and of course, enjoying a water ice:-) Mmm, life was good!
Unfortunately, the way home became a nightmare. The airlines showed their true colors of making unhappy customers. I won't name names but since I flew from New York to Boston you probably can figure it out:-) Anyway, my 4:30pm flight quickly became a 7:15pm flight with a lovely time of an hour and a half or so sitting on the tarmac. We were given no water and just told "we couldn't take off." Thankfully we weren't on the 2:30pm which was sitting beside us as well. Ugh! Fortunately the rest of the weekend was so awesome that I just let it go and remembered the good times:-) Oh, that and hopefully I'll be back in about 9 months:-)
Finally, in case you weren't sure about my loyalties, my Philly roots suffered a blow this past weekend with a 10-2 loss to the St Louis Cardinals on Sunday. It wasn't just any loss but number 10,000. 10,000 losses since they began as a franchise 124 years ago (10,001).
From an ESPN.com article:
"From Connie Mack Stadium to the Vet and Citizens Bank Park, the Phillies have had few moments to celebrate. The franchise, born in 1883 as the Philadelphia Quakers and briefly called the Blue Jays in the mid-1940s, fell to 8,810-10,000.Next on the losing list: the Braves, with 9,681 defeats. It took them stints in three cities (Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta) to reach that total. Not even those lovable losers, the Chicago Cubs, come close at 9,425."
Well, at least they found something they are #1 at in baseball:-p