Author: Kat (Page 30 of 89)

In my sports related t-shirt drawer, I have a Milwaukee Brewers player t-shirt. It’s a Gabe Kapler shirt, purchased during my favorite outfielder’s brief stint with the Brewers in 2008. I now only wear the Brewers shirt around the house, because wearing it in public elicits a series of questions in which I don’t think I have good answers for.

“Are you from Milwaukee?” No, but I drove past highway signs that pointed in its direction when I was in Chicago a few summers ago.

“Why do you have a Kapler shirt?” Because back when I just moved to Boston, I hitched my fandom wagon to Gabe Kapler for partially superficial reasons. Okay? I’m a smart sports fan, I swear, but sometimes I can be swayed by superficiality. We’re all human. It happens.

What does this long rambling about Gabe Kapler and the Brewers have to do with anything? Well, my buddies at Tickets For Charity (the kind people that sell tickets to games and concerts to make money for charity) are giving away two tickets in the infield grandstands for next Saturday’s (June 18, 2011) Boston Red Sox-Milwaukee Brewers matinee game. To enter to win these tickets, all you have to do is click here, and if they ask, make sure to tell them I sent you.

If you win, be sure to get a sausage and beer to enjoy during the game. It’s really the only fitting way to watch a Brewers game – or so I’ve heard.

Late Thursday night, around 10:30pm, I was walking down Commonwealth Avenue from work to Kenmore Station. It was foggy, misty and dark – unless you looked in the direction of Fenway Park. In that direction, it looked nearly dawn like. The Boston Red Sox – Detroit Tigers game had just ended with a walk-off single in the Red Sox’s favor by Carl Crawford, and the crowds were spilling from the ballpark into the area. But this section of Comm Ave was still unaffected.

Between the street lights, the glow of Fenway’s lights and massive new scoreboards, and the wetness of the air, this atmosphere just begged to be photographed.