Happy Birthday! - Red Sox World Champs?
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Today I am hoping my wish from last year comes true. In the wake of last year’s game 7 loss to the Yankees I wrote, “if we are lucky we can win it all on his [my son Evan’s] first birthday.”
Evan’s delivery was planned—a scheduled c-section. We had the option of October 27th, or having a devil baby scheduled for delivery on October 31st. A Halloween birthday would have been cool, but I knew the Sox wouldn’t take to this to seven games. Actually I didn’t know the playoff schedule to even know when game 7 would be, so it is more in line with the devil baby theory.
I cannot believe we are in the World Series. I cannot believe we are up 3 - 0 in the series. I cannot believe I have been allowed to watch stress free Red Sox baseball over the past two nights. I haven’t had to change the channel to avoid watching a meltdown. This isn’t real.
I believe, but I cannot believe that I believe.