Hello to my Red Sox family!!

[southpaw]

I'm new to the board and just wanted to say hi to everyone. I'm an avid Sox fan originally from North Dakota, but recently moved to Iowa. I have some interesting nights in my house as my wife is a Yanks fan, and we are both already working on our 4 year old son to proclaim his alliance (I have faith in my boy, he won't let me down!).

 

Funny story about game 4 of the '04 ALCS...I was on the couch watching (actually, there was more praying going on than anything) the game as it entered the 9th inning as the Yanks seemingly were closing in on yet another Series appearance, when my wife came up behind me and just stood there. I could sense her just standing there, and thought she was just watching the end of the game. I didn't turn around to look at her as I sure as heck didn't have anything to say to her being a MFY fan...well, not anything nice anyway. Finally, she calmly said goodnight, and I turned towards her just as she laid a broom down beside me, laughed, walked off without saying anything else, and actually went to bed. Well, I wasn't going to touch that thing (being a former pitcher, I admit I am pretty superstitious) so there it sat throughout the rest of the game, with me cheering all the way through Ortiz's homer in the 12th. As soon as the game was over, I grabbed the broom, went straight to the bedroom, and told my wife right where she could stick that broom. She just burst out laughing and said she hadn't slept at all because she just knew as soon as she put that broom out, it jinxed everything for the Yanks and she had been just laying in bed expecting me to start cheering because she knew the Red Sox were going to win at that point.

 

Being the superstitious person I am, I then wore the same clothes for every game the rest of the series. I had worn Red Sox colors during games 1-3, and since that obviously wasn't working so well, I went with the reverse thinking and wore Yankee colors for game 4. My wife thought (and probably still thinks) I was crazy. Hey, whatever works, right?

 

That's my story...looking forward to some interesting conversations here.

 

Jesse Jablonski

Pella, IA

[schillingouttheks]

Welcome to Talksox.

[jsinger121]

welcome to the board

[ksushi]

family? creepy.

[The Monster is my Mom]

welcome aboard! good story about game 4...

[ORS]

Aloha. Our situational hitting sucks right now.

 

Probably saying, WTF, right? The game is on, and I'm tired of watching this team leave half of Montana on base every game. Other than that, welcome to the site.

[greenwell39]

Welcome to the site!

[stocker323]

Welcome to the site Jesse.

[YanksHater213]

Ayo.