Why I Love Baseball

February 11th is a big day for me, cause this marks truck day.  In case you didn't know, and I'm assuming most of you don't, truck day is when the trucks leave Boston bound for sunny Fort Myers, Florida for spring training.  This is a big event tons of people show up and there's music, food, games and other fun things.  I've never been there for this, but it's definitely on my bucket list.  It's the sign that even though there may be a foot or more of snow on the ground baseball's not far away.

Let me explain something, in case you didn't know baseball is huge in Boston.  I would say as popular, if not more popular, than football in the south.  Kids are raised around baseball and learn the game and the legends early in life.  This is one of the reasons I want to live in Boston, it's a place that I can go that people actually want to talk about baseball.  It's January and I find that it's really hard to find somebody who wants to talk baseball.  

I've never been a person who's had a much of a social life cause I don't like to drink.  I do have friends that I spend time with, but baseball has always been there for me.   Most of my friends are what I like to call work/school friends.  These are people who are real friendly and nice to you when you are at work/school but are basically strangers away from there.  These are great people and after some of the things I've been through growing up I feel real lucky to have them.   I consider myself in a relationship with baseball considering I've never had a girlfriend so most of my time gets devoted to baseball in the summer.  If I was in Boston this would be no problem but I find it's hard to find girls who are into baseball here in Montana.  

Keeping score during games, even ones that I'm watching on TV is a lot of fun for me.  Those who know me probably have no trouble believing this.  A good friend of mine compared me to Peter Brand, the character played by Jonah Hill in the movie Moneyball.  For those of you who haven't seen this, it's a must watch, one of the best movies I've ever seen.  His character is obsessed with baseball stats and that's me to a t.  He understand the value of buying wins, you don't always need the big names, you just need players that get on base.  My favorite part of the movie is when Hill's character calls Kevin Youkilis the Greek God of walks and one of his favorite players.  Being a baseball GM is a dream of mine, I know it's the perfect job for me, but I don't know how to get there.  I never played the game, but that doesn't mean I don't know the game.

Thanks for listening and one more thing this is the tattoo I'm thinking about getting I'd appreciate the feedback