Hey from the UK!

[Colo Crisp]

Hey folks,

 

Just thought I'd introduce myself... my name's Colo and I'm a Red Sox fan from Norwich in the UK. I've just bought MLB.tv for the first time, so there will be lots of late nights for me in the next few months (it's gone 2am here and we're only just through the third)!

 

I've been following the Sox since 2004... my grandma was a lifelong Sox fan from Massachusetts, and told me all about the Curse of the Bambino when I was younger, but I never really paid much attention to baseball. She told me during the 2004 season that the Sox were going to break the curse that year, but sadly she passed away just before the end of the regular season.

 

I suddenly found myself watching the postseason even though I didn't really understand all the rules, but after finding a couple of other Sox fans in my town I began to watch them more regularly, and after seeing the comeback from 3-0 down against the Yanks in the ALCS, I had a gut feeling that my Grandma was right and we would go on to break the curse. I'm not ashamed to say there were more than a few tears after Game 4; so much joy for my new heroes, but a tinge of sadness that my grandma couldn't have been around to see the Sox as world champions (she was two years old in 1918!).

 

I thought I'd sign up on here to try to learn more about the game and chat to fellow Sox fans... for a Brit I guess I know quite a lot about baseball, but when I chat to Americans it makes me realise how little I really know!

 

Hopefully one day I will fulfil my dream of sitting on top of the Green Monster for a Sox-Yankees game... until then, I'll have to make do with my MLB mosaic and lots of lonely late nights with my laptop!

 

Colo

[yeszir]

Welcome, we have a few fans from the UK here.

 

I'll be impressed if you make it through the game tonight.

[msubulldogs21]

Welcome mate

[Colo Crisp]

Welcome, we have a few fans from the UK here.

 

I'll be impressed if you make it through the game tonight.

If Beckett ships any more runs I might call it a night...

 

Still, holiday tomorrow, so nothing to wake up for!

[Colo Crisp]

Three more given up with two outs, including a double steal? I think the only possible way we're going to win this ballgame is if I go to sleep now. Honestly, I buy MLB.tv, join a Sox forum, and everything just goes baaaaad.

 

If we finish below .500 and/or miss the postseason, blame me...

[yeszir]

Three more given up with two outs, including a double steal? I think the only possible way we're going to win this ballgame is if I go to sleep now. Honestly, I buy MLB.tv, join a Sox forum, and everything just goes baaaaad.

 

If we finish below .500 and/or miss the postseason, blame me...

 

Check this thread out:

 

http://www.talksox.com/forum/game-thread-forum/13959-april-4th-vs-new-york-yankees-opening-day.html

 

We're all complaining in there.

[italstallianion]

Welcome mate.

[Colo Crisp]

Thanks... I'm going to stay up for the 5th, although if the deficit gets any bigger then I think I'll call it a night!

[Colo Crisp]

Welcome mate.

Cheers... another English-based fan pulling a rather miserable all-nighter, I see?

[msubulldogs21]

for a Brit I guess I know quite a lot about baseball' date=' but when I chat to Americans it makes me realise how little I really know![/quote']

 

I feel the same way about soccer.

[Spudboy]

Welcome to Talksox. Don't despair. It's just game one of 162.

[Colo Crisp]

I feel the same way about soccer.

Support Norwich City. That's all you need to know.

 

Seriously though, soccer is really simple compared to baseball. We never even bothered with statistics until MLS...

[Emmz]

Welcome to Talksox ^^

[whitesox901]

Welcome. Lucky break to find other Red Sox fans in your town. I wish we had more White Sox fans here in Toledo.

[Gom]

Wow dude...

 

That was the best opening intro I've ever read here. As a Yankee fan that despises the Red Sox and their fans...I might have to make an exception in your case. Welcome.

[Youk Of The Nation]

lots of lonely late nights with my laptop

 

Well Gom, you two already have at least one thing in common!

[MDF3530]

Support Norwich City. That's all you need to know.

You and I are not going to get along soccerwise.

 

 

http://www.normalityrestored.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/liverpool-fc-crest.jpg

[MDF3530]

Well Gom' date=' you two already have at least one thing in common![/quote']http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:krMj4aTo5YzxNM:http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/TheDarkGundam/emot-laugh.gif

[jeanlee411]

Welcome mate.

 

Thanks... I'm going to stay up for the 5th, although if the deficit gets any bigger then I think I'll call it a night!