East of Boston

The Wandering Jew Is Actually Sort Of Catholic

I'm in a bit of a funk.

I never was any good at baseball. This is mostly because my vision is too poor to pick up on the ball as it is being thrown to me... or, as I like to say, the ball is too small. I go EEEEEEKKKKKK a lot when someone throws a baseball to (at) me, just like a girl.

I also throw like one... and I'm one who has watched enough NFL to know that you want to throw off your front foot and have the ball pass as closely to your ear as possible. I just can't throw a ball. I also have a tendency to take the bat thingy and sort of swing it in a sort of up-to-down manner normally seen when one is trying to hit a pinata. Again... I know what a good swing looks like... I just can't do it, myself.

We're all good at something, and there is always something that we can't do. With me, it's baseball. I'm fairly at ease with it. Rarely are there baseball games organized among the girls in my neighborhood. I have the Colonel to take the kids out when they want to play a bit of Catch. In fact, if I were the one playing Catch with the kids, people would think that I'm either A) divorced or B) trying to emasculate my husband.

No need for that. So, basbeall and I took different paths on the forked tongue of life. I can still watch it. Hell.. I can't play football either, and i can watch like 15 hours of it on any given Sunday. I often do.

The reason I'm telling you this is because we have, just this week, seen the end of Winter Sports. Both hockey and basketball drew their last breaths of their respective seasons, and it is nothing but baseball until the Patriots start their preseason in late July. CCToday even has a competent baseball writer (The Ballyard). I don't really have that much to do at the moment.

May as well look at the national sports scene....

The fact that the Lakers won the NBA title so recently held by the Celtics galls me. I've never been a big Kobe Bryant fan. I feel he has his title because A) Boston's best player was injured, B) everyone else in the West is too old to hold up over 100 games, and C) the sad fact that Cleveland seems almost intent on surrounding Lebron James with 11 stiffs.

When I see people comparing Kobe to Jordan, I try to remember when Jordan A) folded up like a card table in the Finals like Kobe did last year or B) played a full veteran season for a team that ended up in the Lottery. No, kids... this is just a few steps above the proverbial Blind Squirrel.

One thing that haunts me a bit, and maybe not even for a good reason... LA improved greatly when Pau Gasol was acquired for basically nothing. Boston had similar parts to deal with before they made a title-clinching Garnett deal. As much as I enjoyed last year's title... would Boston have been better off in the long run with 10-15 years of Gasol and Al Jefferson (who was sent west in the KG deal)? We'll never know...

Still... LA has the title, and i'm grouchy about it. I'm not at all upset about Pittsburgh winning the Stanley Cup. They deserved it, and it was nice to see Hockeytown lose. Some dim part of me is glad that the Stanley Cup was won by a team in OUR conference, but I don't really give a damn, to be honest.

This is cool, though... check out this video of an amazing football toss at the Penguins championship parade: