I don’t understand baseball, but this is good.

I love it.

Sad & funny.
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HATE the title, though. (I’m a Boston girl.)

sad, but often true…very nice rueful, regretful tone.

I’ve always been kind of fond of this little ficlet & wanted to expand it. Thanks for reminding me that it’s there. And thanks for your comments.

hmmmmmmm

The first paragraph was funny, the second was sad. You had a perfect way of making me feel like his life was, all because of a baseball game, now rendered purposeless.

I agree with stovohobo 100%. great work!!

Wow, such a concise statement on American culture. Excellent.

fathers’& sons’ , very realilistic story,that $8.00 beer price really bothers’ you doesn’t it, mentioned it 2 x’s lol.

love the title (dont hate me, yankees fan). funny

it’s funny u mentioned this [well, it’s funny i read this today.]

at my school today:

it was phillies day.
wWO0Oo!!
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i play softball, so to me, baseball is the next best thing =]

i totally agree! Go Yankees!!!!!!!!!!! Nicely written too,
my math teacher(a nun) likes the red sox.

liked the story nice tone other than that all i gotta say is YOU CAN PUT IT ON THE BOARD ! YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
Go white sox

Nice, how this one shoots to the top, just as the Divisionals begin…

i dont think the red sox suck since they won the divsion but good story

RED SOX KICK BOOTAY ! haha! jk! but seriously, great story. it made me sad… most likely that the poor kid would grow up liking such a cruddy team (once again, jk!)

i like this….i agree with alexa though

i too am…or was a Boston girl…i miss boston so badly…but i have to agree that the red sox have not always been….successful shall i say in their quest for glory

nice story…very sentimental and sad

I’ve never even been to Boston – closest I ever came was a phone interview with Harvard (which is in Cambridge). I live in the Chicago area – this could have easily been about the Cubs & White Sox – funny how our culture is so intertwined with sports – guess that’s the sad but true point of this….

Haha. Good, but I’m a red sox fan.

Sorry Sox fans – this really slams Yankee fans more than any other.

Plus I wrote it way before I knew the sox would do so well…. Nothing at all against Boston here – love Boston.

I don’t know. The beginning was a bit sad-ish, kind of a melencholy tone in there. But the last sentance just made it funny and brought up the mood a lot. Good job. It’s Lovely.

i like how it says in a way

“you are who your parents are”

i mean, that harmful influence would ruin his life and you said that without saying it, so nicely. i luv it.

I agree with PeacockQuill. Parental influence is something we all have to admit to & this is a wonderful piece.

Oh, the rich, rich psychology of acculturation, how we are molded and influenced by the circumstances into which we are born. How much nature does it take to break free of how we are nurtured? Sometimes I think I missed out not growing up in a home with a sports affiliation (my dad watches golf and listens to Beethoven, and knows how to plan wars), but most of the time I’m kind of grateful.

this is so sad
you should so continue

lol so funny b.c my friends and i are havin the ultimate red sox argument. awesome

This story is very, very true. Children are incredibly impressionable, and personalities begin building at a young age. The title wasn’t cool at first, cuz I’m from New England, but as I read I realized that it was only an insult from a character that deserves pity and perhaps a little understanding.