Many true American Baseball fans have 2 major priorities in life: their family and their team. And sometimes, those priorities juggle for first position. The team, of course will forgive you if you have to miss a home game to attend – say - your firstborn’s college graduation. But just try working it the other way around….
And what of the mixed baseball marriage? Love, indeed, can find a way in the most unlikely of places. It has happened that a boy from Boston meets a girl from the Bronx and quicker than a Nolan Ryan fastball, they’ve tied the knot and the battle over how to raise the children has begun.
There are many circumstances in which rival fans must learn to live and work in an atmosphere of tolerance and cooperation: roomates, business colleagues, neighbors,
the in-laws, the boss.
The season is upon us once again and the conflicts, the teasing, the arguments are cropping up faster than the crabgrass.
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Living With The Enemy
It's All in the Family
Submitted by Boston Art
I didn't mind it when my only daughter chose to marry a young man of a different religion. It didn't bother me when I learned that he voted the rival political party. But when my daughter walked into the house wearing her betrothed's Yankee cap, it was like a knife had been plunged into my back. I did what any self respecting sox fan would do. I carefully removed the cap and placed it in the kitty litter box where it belongs. Another time, I had my new son in-law's birthday cake inscribed, "Happy birthday Nathan, but the Yankees still suck."
I've tried to be a positive influence on my new grandson by providing him with bibs, pajamas, and outfits with the Red Sox logo. Hopefully, he will be able to overcome the evil pinstriped influence in his life, and chart a straight course.
Share your story of baseball dis-harmony and we’ll post it here – if, for nothing else, moral support.
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