My normal mantra is usually: Sports are for Stupids! Unfortunately, I have a 9 year old brother that I have lived away from for the last 6 years that doesn’t see it that way. We have always been very close, I pretend to be his second mom, but there is only so much you can do living 400 miles away. Thankfully, now I am much closer-70 miles-from my brother and we now get to spend one on one bonding time. Last weekend he stayed with me in my new apartment for three days and two nights. Cody, my brother, is now at the age where he loves baseball. The Giants are his team so last Sunday I took him to see the Giants play the Dodgers. I have only ever been to one other baseball game in my life and that was a Dodgers game that I was an hour late to, stood in line for 30 minutes for a beer, and still complained that the game was way too long. It was funny to because supposedly this was the second shortest game in Dodger history and I was about ready to stab my eye out. I like to think I have grown up since then and can roll with the punches better. I didn’t know this then but the game we were at was the last of the three games in a row against the Dodgers. People brought brooms to their seats so they could yell, “Sweep LA” and a ton of people had shirts that said “Beat LA” which I aptly misread as “Eat LA.” Sorry, this girl always has food on the brain. It was strange, my brother told me before we went to the game, “You live in San Francisco now and so now you are a Giants fan and the first rule of being a Giants fan is that you don’t like the Dodgers.” As mentioned, I really could care less about sports unless it is ice skating, gymnastics or tennis but it was an interesting switch. I went from pretending to care and support the Dodgers to doing that for the Giants. Sports pride has always seemed like the most ridiculous thing to me and while I could clap when my brother told me to, I could not boo or say bad things about LA. I guess where I am now is if I had to chant, I would only say: Eat LA! The Giants ended up beating/sweeping the Dodgers and I guess on some weird level it made me happy. My new city won.
Tags: dodgers, family, giants, Los Angeles, personal, San Francisco
