so close & yet so far away...

i'm all baseball-high on hearing the first strains of "Sweet Caroline" sing out from my computer speakers.

i realize it's just the first game of Spring Training but i was lucky enough to be able to listen to it online tonight. can't even capture with words how *good* it feels to hear some baseball again. if you could see my face, you'd understand, i think -- but i am all scrubbed out, no more make up, hair like a wild woman. no chance *anyone* is seeing me tonight! =P

*does it shock *anyone* that the Sox opened exhibition baseball in front of a sold out crowd? (what i wouldn't have given to be there...) (zip it, Michelle! step away from the Lowell!)

*comfortable start by Schill. two hits in two innings on 19 pitches, 15 of them strikes. some things you can just count on.

*just like you can count on Julian to slip back into Ugly EZ, giving up a 3-run homer to tie the game at four. ::shakes head:: at least he made it feel like a Sox game.

*hoping that the jitters & rustiness wear off quickly, because after last year's amazing infield, three errors in one game felt... *weird*. thanks for kicking it off, Lugo. you looked just like you did in Tampa. ::rolls eyes::

*and leave it to my boys to go into extra innings on their first 2007 night on the diamond. just can't have a quick game against the Red Sox. ;-) at least they ended it tied up & not with a loss.

::breathes in deeply::
do you smell that? baseball season is coming!