October 23, 2003
From the desk of Jane Galt:This Washington Post editorial speaks movingly of the difficulties that only those of us who grew up in a mixed marriage know.
Yes, my little chickadees, it is true; my mother comes from a family of Yankees fans, while my father was raised in the Red Sox tradition. We have been raised with my mother's faith, which makes things a wee bit tense during the playoffs.
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Small point; this is not an editorial (which would be the WaPo's institutional view of baseball, supposing it to have one). It's a column.
Thank goodness I'm a National Leaguer and my spouse is an American Leaguer...that way my child can root for both teams until the series. And what chance is there of another Sox/Mets series anyway?
Well yes, but at least this is baseball and not soccer, so your parents at least didn't have to feel any obligation to kill each other, as we enlightened Europeans do.
I'm not sure why I should care about the results of a group of multi-millionaires throwing a ball around a field for several hours.
Maybe if I'd invested in the team, yes, I'd care, but people who get excited over it for any other reason are morons.
One good thing about baseball though, you can fall asleep in the middle of a game, or go to the washroom for a couple of hours, and come back secure in the knowledge that you haven't missed anything interesting.
Boo: As my brother says, baseball is dull only to people with dull minds.
Same thing in my house over UofL/UK basketball. It was quite tense in our house durting the '84 NCAA championship because the two teams played each other for the first time in over two decades. Neither dad nor I could so much as crack a smile when UofL won that game, lest we be relegated to sleeping outdoors for a few weeks.
Duke-UNC mixed marriages are also rough, of course. And they play each other all the time.
Ah, but worst of all is an Alabama/Auburn mixed couple.
And another subset, the University of Kansas/Missouri union. Particularly interesting because of it's free-state/slave-state issue wich always seems to come up when those kids get together.
I have seen "A House Divided" Auburn/Alabama license plate decorations in Alabama. I'm not sure what those families do every year. Nor about the mixed Georgia-Florida marriages.
Fortunately, my parents transferred their allegiance from the Yankees to the Braves together. And we are united as a family in saying, "What the $#@%# is up with the Falcons?"
I've always been a Bosox fan. even though I hate Boston as a place and love NY.
Something to do with being 9 years old, living in Boston in '75, and meeting Fisk and Yazskremski in a park while flying a kite. Heck. 9, years old, hanging out with Fisk and Yaz in a park. Then they go off to the World Series a few months later and lose to Cinc.
Would it be rude of me to publicly enjoy the Yankee's loss?
Guess it doesn't bother me one way or another.
The world is a better place when the Yankees are not World Champions.
Maybe your whole family needs to stop supporting losers.
I don't think that I've been to this weblog before - which is unfortunate, since it seems to be very popular, and since I've been to so many blogs since I started my own about a year ago. This site looks very nice - it has a neat design and layout. And I am also particularly glad that it seems to not have a lot of the pro-state, pro-neoconservatism, and anti-liberty themes and positions that permeate many weblogs - including those that are supposed to on "the Right."
Keep up the great work!
My sister (Auburn) and brother-in-law (Alabama) agreed before they got married to never go to that game together. She sits with us on the Auburn (holy and righteous) side, he sits with his family on the uat (evil and corrupt) side.
Eight years and counting; Auburn leads the marital series 4-3 as of today. You should see the grandfathers fight over who gets to dress my nephew in whose colors...
"Worst of all" is Auburn/Alabama? I know of mixed Duke-UNC marriages where the Duke fan rooted for the Soviets over the US in the Olympics when Dean Smith was coaching, and took a bunch of his own players.
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