October 15, 2007

• This week, Ohio State gets to be #1 in the football polls.  I guess I’ll choose to be happy about that for now, though the Indians scoring 7 runs in extra innings the other night was pretty fun.  I was raised a Reds fan, but the Indians haven’t won a World Series in my lifetime, so I guess I should follow them more this week. I’m still a bit stunned that they beat the Yankees so easily.  It was fun watching Game 2 vs. the Red Sox with 3 Yankees fans the other night.  Every time Cleveland did something good, the room would erupt.  I was cheering for the Indians, and they were cheering against the Red Sox.  Ah, sports fans.  We’re all nuts.  If the Red Sox claim another World Series and Boston College ascends from #3 to #1 in the football polls by the end of the month, the northeast may get so heavy with pride that the historic city could sink off into the famous harbor. 

  On a side note, all of my sports interests now have new energy on the west coast.  Generally, sports fans here are as insular about their interests as midwesterners or southeasterners are about theirs.  It has been my lot (1) to grow up in the MidWest, where Big Ten football thumps several Bible Belt denominations as the dominant religion, (2) to live/work/study in two cities where SEC/ACC football fans (and basketball fans for several schools) thumps Southern Baptists as the dominant religious class.  So I bring a fairly wide perspective to the few PAC 10 faithful who care.  However, it seems most broadcasters here are as blindly loyal/delusional as every other place I’ve lived.  I can’t really listen to them for long.  But it’s a great year to watch college football with the sound off or at a large party where you can’t hear them, as was the case Sat. night at my two friends’ birthday bash in Santa Monica.  I realize most of you don’t care about any of that, but just consider it my way of noting the re-emergence of a social life, if only for one night.

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