Baseball season is upon us, so it's time to cheer for the (stupendous, fantastic, World Series champion) Red Sox again! Owen is festively dressed in his Sox outfit (thanks Patti!) and we have encouraged him to use his mini-Red Sox bat to pound on any of his toys that look like they might be evil Yankee fans. 
We decided not to dress him up yesterday because he just started day care this week (and Marisa went back to work) and there are a lot of Rockies fans. Until the World Series, I don't think anyone in Colorado had anything against the Sox. But since the Sox trounced, nay pounded, the Rockies in the World Series I have gotten a couple of comments while wearing Red Sox clothing. Thus, to protect the little guy from any jeers from other babies, we waited until an off day to wear the Red Sox outfit and show his true colors.
Who will be Owen's favorite player? He isn't really going to know what's going on in baseball for a few years, so it has to be someone who isn't too old -- I think Papi and Manny are probably out for that reason. Maybe Jacoby Ellsbury? Dustin Pedroia? Josh Beckett? Pitchers are always less exciting because they don't hit many HRs... I guess we will have to wait and see... Maybe Ichiro -- he is awesome.
But really, it doesn't matter what baseball team he roots for. I hope he is a fan of our local team (the Rockies for now) as well as the Red Sox and any other team that either has a cool name or a cool mascot or has some awesome players. The only tragedy would be if he was a Yankees fan. I can imagine him rebelling as a teenager and rooting for the Yankees just to get back at us for grounding him or something like that. That would be a pretty hilarious retaliation I think!
Sean
Friday, April 4, 2008
Little Red Sox fan
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My dear grandson Owen--
The entire purpose of giving you a little BoSox baseball bat (and which your silly daddy politely forgot to mention in his blog that it was a gift from your dear old Yankee-fan-gramdpa since he was your age and just passed 59 years as a devout Yankee fan even though he grew up in Brooklyn and not the Bronx which was really the home of the NY Yankees and he could have been a Brooklyn Dodger but instead chose to be a Bronx Bomber)was to bop your daddy on his silly noggin if he says anything mean about a player named Jeter or Giambi or Pettitte or Girardi during the upcoming 2008 MLB Season !!! So don't put any of your little play money on the BoSox in April. Let's wait until after the All Star Game in July to see if the BoSox still have it in 'em because for 59 years I never counted the Yankees out of an American League championship or a World Series appearance when the going got tough during the high tension months of September and October when real baseball Champions show the stuff they're made of !! So it's okay to wear your little red BoSox PJs now, but in October I'm gonna bring you a real pair of MLB PJ's that are white with blue pinstripes !!!
Love,
Grandpa Steve
PS -- I've already reserved box seats for all of us at the new Yankee Stadium when you come in 2010 !!!
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