It was a phenomenal evening right here in Brooklyn on Wednesday, and though I couldn’t make it to Citi Subject in time for Mets-Nationals, I made a decision to go for a protracted stroll after which cease at an area sports activities bar to learn and watch some baseball. Naturally, the Mets have been on one of many TVs behind the bar, whereas the opposite was reserved for the Yankees, who have been set to play the Royals a short time later. That was a bummer for the 2 Purple Sox followers sitting subsequent to me, Mike and Kathleen, however they have been resourceful. The bar has free wifi, so Mike pulled up Boston’s sport in opposition to the Rays on his telephone. He and Kathleen didn’t know each other, however they acknowledged one another as fellow Sox followers from the weekend prior, once they have been each on the identical bar to look at Yankees-Purple Sox. He moved over to the stool between Kathleen and I, in order that she and her companion Harry might additionally watch the sport. The 4 of us began speaking, and it seems Harry and I went to the identical highschool, although he graduated 4 years forward of me. Small world!
Anyway, someday between Marcelo Mayer’s first and second house run of the sport, Kathleen mentioned to me, “The very best factor about Purple Sox followers is we concurrently love and hate the Sox, and we like to hate them, too.” I deliver this up as a result of I considered her description of Boston followers as I sat all the way down to reply the primary query on this week’s mailbag.
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