Last night's ridiculous game
Apr. 11th, 2015 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanLast night seemed like the perfect opportunity to watch a Red Sox game for the first time this year. I settled in to watch a few innings while the kids were doing their "last few minutes of videogaming before bed." All was going pretty well until the Sox blew a one-run lead in the bottom of the ninth and Isaac suddenly decided to take an interest. I was like, "why must they go to extra innings on the first game I decide to watch this year?" and Isaac went "well I can't go to bed now -- I need to see how this turns out." I said, "but what if the game goes to 16 innings?" and he was like, "well, that's not very likely." HA!
So we watched a few more innings, and then in the bottom of the 12th, around 11:15pm, the power went out at part of Yankee Stadium and the umpires called a delay while they tried to get the lights back on. SERIOUSLY? At that point I was like, screw this, Friday or not the kids need their sleep. So I made them go to bed, which met with little resistance.
Then I came back downstairs and resumed watching the game...for another five innings or so. Around 1:30am when it hit the 17th inning, I said "screw this" again and went to bed. Dude, I know that a diehard fan stays till the bitter end, but I mean, it's the first week of April. If it were September (or even August) I would be there till the last pitch no matter what, but this time of year, forget it. I'm old and creaky. ;)
Anyway, I wake up this morning to see that the game ended up going 19 innings and was the longest game (in minutes, if not innings) in Red Sox history. And it went about another hour after I gave up. So I'm sure glad I didn't try to stick it out. I would have been sleeping on the couch!
So we watched a few more innings, and then in the bottom of the 12th, around 11:15pm, the power went out at part of Yankee Stadium and the umpires called a delay while they tried to get the lights back on. SERIOUSLY? At that point I was like, screw this, Friday or not the kids need their sleep. So I made them go to bed, which met with little resistance.
Then I came back downstairs and resumed watching the game...for another five innings or so. Around 1:30am when it hit the 17th inning, I said "screw this" again and went to bed. Dude, I know that a diehard fan stays till the bitter end, but I mean, it's the first week of April. If it were September (or even August) I would be there till the last pitch no matter what, but this time of year, forget it. I'm old and creaky. ;)
Anyway, I wake up this morning to see that the game ended up going 19 innings and was the longest game (in minutes, if not innings) in Red Sox history. And it went about another hour after I gave up. So I'm sure glad I didn't try to stick it out. I would have been sleeping on the couch!
