The payoff was good, too

That was a fun game to watch as a Red Sox fan.

There are many, many, many peo­ple out there who are more ded­i­cated Red Sox fans than I am. This sea­son, I did not watch a sin­gle game until the fourth game of the ALCS. And even then I only caught the last few innings. (Actu­ally, I went to bed before it was over.) Last night, while watch­ing the piv­otal Game 7, I didn’t start watch­ing until the third inning, and then I took a 45 minute break between innings 4 and 7 to watch _Lost_.

And yet, I do love base­ball, and there is no other team to which I owe any alle­giance. Not like in foot­ball (the NFL kind) where I root for a half dozen teams, or soc­cer (foot­ball) where I fol­low a cou­ple of nations dur­ing the World Cups (the Mundial).

The Red Sox are the only base­ball team I care any­thing about. I attended a few Paw Sox games while I was in col­lege, I own sev­eral Red Sox caps, and have been to a Red Sox game. But I’d like to say that, even from that fair-weather post, it was a great game to watch.