Well, the undertakers couldn't use their tickets again, so I took my son John (10) to the game. We brought our gloves, cause the seats are only four rows back from the visitor's dugout and the other tteam throws balls up there often. We bought a Gameday on the way so I could show my son the article towards the back of this month's issue.

I'll save the actual game observations for the game thread. Just wanted to paint a picture here. The great thing about being that close is you can heckle the other batters and actually get a reaction sometimes. The section was particularly harsh on Crisp and Pedroia. I hadn't realized how many cereal jokes you can come up with. My son's was perhaps the best ("Hey Crisp, your bat is gonna go Snap Crackle and Pop"). And Pedroia (aka little fella) was an equally rich vein of jokes about the fact that he'd lost his way on the way to a little league game.

The whole section gave Cuddy a standing ovation for his juggling act out in right field, and we laughed for the rest of the half inning. The other thing that we noticed was how surly the Sox got as the game went along. They were leering at us and slouching on their way to the dugout. At one point a foul ball went in there and the player didn't just flip it up our way, he threw it hard. It was all the more fun to heckle them as they realized they were going to lose another series to the Twins.

All in all a most enjoyable game. John says, "The best game I've ever seen."