The baseball craze on my first day here in America
Despite of the long flight, I was too excited to feel the tiredness yet. But I know it would take a few days to adjust to the time difference and get over the jet lag. We dropped by the in laws’ home, gave them the Choya plum wine and some knick-knacks I picked up for them during stopovers in Seoul and Tokyo.
T and his parents were eagerly following the game, wanted to know whether the Chicago White Sox got into the playoff. They have the HDTV turned on but the voice muted, so we could talk while they follow the game. I have never touched the batting gloves and can’t tell the head from the tail nor have any idea about the rules of baseball game and how it’s scored.
However, it’s quite exciting to know history might be created on the day I arrived here! Apparently, both Chicago Cubs and White Sox have not been in the post season together in 102 years, or since the 1906 World Series. In fact, someone had predicted that the likelihood of this happened is like Mars passing a mere 35 million miles from earth, a summer movie about a horse drawing more than flies or a Kennedy kin entering politics in California — as a Republican!:-)
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