Ah the boys of summer

Baseball is by far the greatest sport. It is sad that now I am away from Boston I will not be able to visit Fenway park. While I am in NC, however, I have the oppurtunity to see two minor league teams, the Single-A Kannapolis Intimidators and the Triple-A Charlotte Knights, both of the White Sox organization. I even had the oppurtunity to see Curt Schilling's first rehab start when the Paw Sox came to town before he returned to Boston to temporarily act as the closer.

Minor league baseball is great, for many reasons. First is that you have your choice of any seat in the house. In Boston you were lucky to grab a pair of tickets way out in the outfield when some crappy team like the Devil Rays came to town, and even those tickets were expensive. Minor league, you can sit first row behind home plate for 8 bucks. Thats where I was sitting when I took the above picture.

The other reason minor league baseball is great is that it certainly helps foster the fantasy that you could play professonal baseball. Whenever you see a batter swing and miss at a ball bounced to the plate, or the third baseman launch a ball into the dugout trying to throw to first base, its easy to think "Hey, I could do that. In the very least I cannot do any worse!"

Of course the Red Sox are currently fostering similar fantasies, as they commited 7 throwing errors in this past series with the Twins. Sigh.