I live 25 miles from Boston, but I have become an adult, I just never had any interest in baseball in general or the Red Sox in particular.
When I was a pre-teen, baseball was my favorite sport by far, back in the Sixties.
When I was in boot camp at Great Lakes in 1975, I remember getting underneath my rack when everyone was sleeping and listening to the 6th game of the World Series on a little AM radio. Very strange. I cannot for the life of me remember why or how I had that radio, and why I was on the floor, but that was the last time I was really excited about baseball.
I have gone to a few baseball games over the years, but it is more of a social thing than anything else. I do remain a fanatical football fan and have been since 1971 (except for about a 10 year interval where I really got into watching and playing hockey)
Now, I find baseball (and basketball) about as interesting as soccer, which for me, is not very. But I am happy for people around me who are interested. I work in a hospital, and the past week or two they have sent out dress code guidelines to allow people to “support their team”.
It’s all fun...:)
As I get older I’m much less interested in sports in general than I’ve ever been; with the exception of the World Cup there are few events that I go out of my way to see. On a slow Sunday I’ll put football on, but there are so many commercials you really have to watch something else more or less simultaneously; basketball and hockey were fun to play when I was younger but impossible to watch on TV (though live hockey is the greatest sport). Non-World Cup soccer is boring as Hell unless you’re watching two great European teams; soccer’s main selling point (actually its Achilles Heel financially) is the lack of commercials.
It is incredible how much time & money Americans dedicate to professional sports every year; it really is “bread & circuses” in comparison to things that really matter. The upcoming Super Bowl will be played about five miles north of me, next to a mall that was finished years ago (including an indoor ski slope) that never opened as the economy collapsed; it is truly eerie to see close-up. Every Saturday in the flea market held next to the stadium I see illegals buying tools from desperate Americans, passing on their livelihoods to those who took the jobs. The NFL has seen the writing on the wall and now American football is included in Telemundo and Galavision (Spanish channels) news...