A Night to Remember

This is one of those stories that I've been intending to record on my blog for the sole purpose of having it in "writing" for Josiah to read and remember one day.

Friday evening around 6:15 Alex calls me from work joyously proclaiming that someone was giving away free Red Sox/Yankees tickets and asked me if he should take them. I, for a single moment, got really excited and asked him which game they were for, Saturday or Sunday. He then announced, "TONIGHT." The game is set to start in 50 minutes, Fenway Park is around 50 minutes away, I'm at home with our three children, and Alex is at work. So how in the world does he think this will work? I sadly told him that it just couldn't work as he's trying to twist my arm to finding a sitter (very last minute I might add, not my idea of fun). He quickly realized it was too much to ask, knowing that it could be midnight before we would get home. Nice idea, would have been a blast, but unfortunately we would have to pass.

I got off the phone with him and within a few short minutes, Josiah, having heard one end of the conversation, asked me what Alex and I were talking about. I explained the situation and he looked at me with great anticipation in his eyes and asked, "Can he take me?" "Now thats not a bad idea", I thought, although I have no way to contact Alex at work to mention this great idea to him. Shortly after, Alex, having the same great idea, calls and tells me to get Josiah ready...he's got the tickets and will take Josiah with him. Josiah was thrilled, to say the least.

They didn't get there until 8:30, but because of a rain delay, the game was just starting. And little did I know (because I fell asleep on the couch) there would be another 30 minute rain delay in the 5th inning. I wake up at 1:00am and they are not home. I hurry to the phone and when I reach him, shortly after 1:00, he informs me that the subway stopped running at 12:30 and he and Josiah, along with about a hundred others were stuck, with no way to get to their cars. He decides to get $100 out of the ATM to pay for a cab, which didn't at all thrill me, but it sure was a heck of alot better than my getting Jacob and Micah out of bed in the middle of the night to drive to Boston to rescue them. The cab ended up only costing $30 and being blessed with FREE Red Sox/Yankees tickets, we were still way ahead of the game, financially speaking. They arrived home at close to 2:30am, but I think they would both agree it was all well worth it.

The biggest thrill of the night came after the 30 minute 5th inning rain delay. Most people left the ballpark at that time due to fact that the Yankees were beating us pretty badly because, having already clinched a play-off spot and knowing the Yankees had no chance of getting there (I just had to throw that in), we were playing many of our bench players. But because Alex and Josiah endured the rain delay, for the last 4 innings, they got to sit right behind the Red Sox on-deck circle and see everyone up close and personal. They even had quite a few TV appearances. It was quite a night! Yes, I'm a little jealous because I actually never made it to a game this year, but I think Josiah has some great memories to carry with him for a long time.