This year for our annual outing the ebizQ team headed off to Yankee stadium for the first game in the Yankees-Redsox series. Les Yeamans, president of ebizQ, is a baseball fan. But the problem is that while the company is based in NY, I'm based in Boston. And even through I was born, raised and went to college in NY (and can't quite totally rid myself of the accent), I've been in Boston for 30 years, and everyone in Boston is automatically a Redsox fan, whether or not they even follow baseball. Not to be a Redsox fan would risk bringing a curse onto my house and first born. I brought my Redsox hat to wear, but Les circumvented that by getting us all ebizQ hats, which you can see here.
From left to right, Les, Lisa, Liz, Rick, Prakash.
We were right behind home plate and had a great view of the field. Michele's trust iPhone took some great photos.
Here's Dan and Liz Book with the back of my head and Neil on the end. By the way, to all of you who send email to me when you mean to reach Liz, she's Elizabeth and I'm Beth.
Well, as you know the Yankees won that game, and the next game too. We'll see what happens today. The Sox are still up 5 games, but it's a matter of pride. I have to say both the Yankees fans and Redsox are very intense. There were many Sox fans at the game. A recent article stated that more SOX fans go to away games than any other fans. Yankees are up there though. As the game wore on, and more beers were consumed, they became louder and louder, screaming Masshole at anyone who walked by in a Redsox hat or shirt.
The ebizQ team had some deep revelations at the game, Liz, our editor in chief, realized that the Yankee logo actually stood for NY. Lisa learned there are 9 innings in a baseball game. Les educated Prakash in how the game is played. And even though I follow the Sox just enough to know how they're doing in the standings, and basically only watch when they're in the World Series, I learned, somewhat to my surprise, that I really detest Johnny Damon and hope he can't get served in a restaurant when he comes to Boston.
Thank for the outing Les. Go Sox!
I couldn't get a ferry back from Block Island, RI (which like most of Connecticut, is split between Yankee and Bosox fans) in time to get back for NY for the game, but I watched it at a friend's house in Massachusetts.
He was born and raised in New York but has become a Red Sox fan after living in Mass. for seven years.
He told me that there was some kind of special going on -- that he could get me a year's membership in Red Sox Nation for $5.00. I told him I'd rather drink prussic acid (I'm a Mets fan).
But I do give the Red Sox and their media partners a lot of credit for creating this thriving online community of shared interest