Family Red Sox Game Last Night

Last night was Lauren's (Ben's sister) birthday. About 3-4 months ago Ben thought it would be cool to get her Red Sox tickets. Pretty good brotherly move if you ask me.

Last night Jamula found out his friend had 20 extra Red Sox tickets for $25 each.

Well that's ironic don't you think? Its all of our first game of the year (except for Ben who went to a game earlier this year with Heather) and Joyce was trying to get a game where all of us could go but she bought them for a thursday when both Kim and I had class.

Turns out Alex couldnt go, Kim wanted to go but backed out (when she found out Kenny couldn't go) but Kayt and Heather jumped in feet first. Lauren was coming up from the Islands with Brian her boyfriend who didn't have a ticket either, so he got one. The whole escapade getting to the park, getting the tickets, finding out they weren't even together, getting in the park, finding seats together, losing the seats together, getting seperated, and then finally sitting down with a nice juicy sausage wasn't really appealing. Especially since I basically missed the first 3 innings.

Other than that the game was good. We only missed dice K going no hit and then giving it up in the 5th and John Lackey of the Angels only let up 1 hit so it was 0-0. Later Lackey made an error to let in two runs in around the 6th, Papi hit a homer right in front of us in the 8th and they scored another run to make it 4-0. Bard threw 99, 99, 100 in a row. Paplebomb came in even though they were up 4 (he must need the confidence booster because he let up a run). And the Sox still won.

Joyce and I sat together. Ben and Lauren had an empty seat next to them and Brian found his way over there when he "dissapeared" on Jamlua and Joyce. Matt ended up sitting in our original attempt to sit together seats with Heather and Kayt. It all worked out very nicely.

The wave got going pretty good. haha. I wonder hoe many times we do the wave on this trip. Stat #1 for Our "Fan Stats". More to come.

Come on. We are engineers. We gotta keep track of our numbers.

2010 Schedule Relased

So to set a time frame on what has happened today... Last night was MondayNightFootball opening night when TOM BRADY came back for his first game in a Patriots uniform since he blew his knee out in the first game last year. Lets just say the Pats fans were out and rabbid again. Either way the better part about today is that the 2010 MLB schedule was released offically! YUP! So that means now we can officially get the planning going. Some other major events since my last post... Ben's lung collapsed, we moved to Parker St, and NU is back in Fall semester. That's all for now. More details on the planning later. We already have a initial plan based around the all star game in Anaheim.

Andy speaks his mind

This being my first post I should introduce myself to those who dont know me. Im from Germantown NY, and an avid Yankees fan. Im studying Civil Engineering at Northeastern University with Ben. Ive lived with Big Ben since the beginning of our sophmore year. We have gone to a few games together (I brought him to the old Yankee stadium, He brought me to a Yankees Sox game at Fenway just to mention a few) which is what started this idea.

Before this trip I have been to Fenway, Old Yankee Stadium, New Yankee Stadium, Shea, Camden, Kansas City, Tropicana in Tampa, and as you can see below Nationals Stadium.

Well I just got back from my family reunion (a major source of couches across the country) and found some good hook ups. Nora is in Phoenix (who knows where she will be next year but its a start). Jonathan said that he does a lot of work in Atlanta, which is good because Sally & Mike just moved from Augusta which was our couch down there. Sally & Mike, however did just move to Austin, Texas, which could be an option for Houston but probably not Dallas. It is defiantly a good place to stop.

I also found out I might have a chance to go to 2 games on Labor Day at Yankee Stadium. The Fingars had a rain out rescheduled to labor day when they already had a ticket so they gave them to my dad who asked me. Shawn and Alex are going to the second game that day with Alex's sister and boyfriend so if they (sister and boyfriend) dont end up wanting to go then I might be able to go to 2. SAAWEEET.

Just to put this in perspective Last weekend the yankees played the red sox in a 4 game series. Can you say sweep? The yankees crushed them to go up 6 games in the standings. Just had to mention that.