fools rush in

April 1, 2002

Today's Reading
Mount Hope : A New England Chronicle by George Howe

This Year's Reading
2002 Book List

Today's Starting Pitcher:
Pedro Martinez
Final Score: Blue Jays 12, Red Sox 11 - not exactly a pitcher's duel

How come it took me 'til I'm almost 51 (a week from today if you'd like to send me a present) to realize that "April Fools" means "Red Sox Fans"?

Oh woe is me. I scurried to pay the $14.95 to listen to the game over the Internet (it's $14.95 for the whole season, not just one game), download the correct version of RealPlayer, and tape the headphone jack to the humungous extension cord I got for the office PC all by the 1:05 game time. I made it with one minute to spare. I got to listen to the applause for Pedro and Nomar, the applause for the Patriots who cleverly emerged onto the field from behind a huge American flag to throw out the ceremonial first pitch and the ceremonial Nerf footballs, and the roar of the jets doing the fly over. I got to listen to Steven Tyler sing the national anthem. Not something one wants to do more than once. Couldn't he have sung Walk this Way or some other Aerosmith tune instead? That would've been way kewl. And so I listened as Pedro struggled and gave up 7 runs in the first three innings. I listened as the Red Sox caught up and hope flickered. I listened as they lost. I listened all the whole darn afternoon. All while doing actual work.

Now I am stuffing MRFRS volunteer newsletters into envelopes and wondering how it got so cold in my study all of a sudden and why the streetlight outside is swaying back and forth very rapidly and trash is flying around the parking lot. March goes out like a lion and fools rush in. Must be April in Massachusetts.