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BASEBALL BASEBALL BASEBALL.
Tigers pitchers and catchers report to spring training today. Red Sox are tomorrow, and the Astros are the eighteenth, and I'm too lazy right now to count three days ahead to figure out what day that is. So, the Tigers at least have officially embarked upon their season, which means last season and its offseason are no more, which means hopefully my shirt curse has disappeared*, which I am testing because I finally ordered the Bonderman shirt I've been lusting after for months but didn't dare purchase. (Many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladycanterville for this one, since she gave me an MLB gift certificate for Christmas. I've been saving it and I couldn't have afforded the shirt myself. Dude, I used the entire thing and still had to pay another forty-seven cents. The shipping and handling'll kill you every time.) So, let's all hope that I am correct on this one, because guess what the Tigers really don't need? Or maybe the shirt curse only applies to the Red Sox, I don't know, this is the first non-Sox player shirt I've bought. If this pans out okay, I will start saving for a Morgan Ensberg shirt.
In November, when I happened to have a little extra cash (something that I cannot imagine these days) I bought myself tickets to the only Sea Dogs home series against the Seawolves. Baby Red Sox versus baby Tigers! And the final game of the series is the Father's Day game, so of course I bought an extra ticket for my dad. I am so excited about going to see the games, and I am extra excited about going with him, and of course since I bought tickets in November for a June series no one gives a shit about except me, I got awesome seats. If I'm this excited in February, I can't imagine how hysterical I'll be in June.
(This was a secondary concern while I was moving; as it stands, the building I'm in is within walking distance from Hadlock. It's a long walk, but I can walk it. If I ended up having to move out of town, two of the tickets would go to waste, since I don't drive and need either the bus or my legs to get places. So, another bonus of having moved upstairs: I didn't waste fourteen bucks on the first two games! Yay!)
I currently own four player shirts: Jason Varitek, which I got after the 2003 season ended and has never presented a problem other than being very unlucky to wear during games for a while in 2004, but that eventually flipped itself around; Curt Schilling, received as a Christmas gift in 2004; David Wells, purchased in 2005 shortly after spring training started, and incidentally I had to return and re-buy this one, since they got the number wrong the first time; and Mark Bellhorn, purchased August first, less than two weeks before his release and subsequent signing with the Yankees.
Curt Schilling - yeah, we all know what happened there, with the DL and the closing and the getting smeared by Tampa Bay. David Wells, with the DL and the plantar fascia and the very shaky start to the season. INTERESTING FOOTNOTE: After he swapped numbers with Renteria, he did a one-eighty and became one of our most reliable starters. The shirt I have is the old number three. I took the hint and have not replaced it with a sixteen. Mark Bellhorn, with the DL and the thumb and the sucking really hard (at playing, not the thumb). I got the shirt after all that happened, but I still can't help but notice the part where he got released and ended up with the Yankees after I bought that shirt. Don't even try and tell me I didn't have a shirt curse.
So. Given that all three shirts were purchased within the scope of 2005 (the Schilling shirt being given to me during the preceding offseason) and their players had such difficult seasons, and given that the Varitek shirt was purchased well before then and has not been a problem, I concluded that my shirt curse was a 2005 thing, and that once 2005 was forever gone, it would be safe to buy player shirts again. I decided that once pitchers and catchers reported, 2005 was safely behind us, so before I went to bed this morning I ordered my Bonderman shirt.
Now, please join me in hoping that I'm right. On the other hand, if I'm not, I'm totally buying a Johnny Damon shirt.
Tigers pitchers and catchers report to spring training today. Red Sox are tomorrow, and the Astros are the eighteenth, and I'm too lazy right now to count three days ahead to figure out what day that is. So, the Tigers at least have officially embarked upon their season, which means last season and its offseason are no more, which means hopefully my shirt curse has disappeared*, which I am testing because I finally ordered the Bonderman shirt I've been lusting after for months but didn't dare purchase. (Many thanks to
ladycanterville for this one, since she gave me an MLB gift certificate for Christmas. I've been saving it and I couldn't have afforded the shirt myself. Dude, I used the entire thing and still had to pay another forty-seven cents. The shipping and handling'll kill you every time.) So, let's all hope that I am correct on this one, because guess what the Tigers really don't need? Or maybe the shirt curse only applies to the Red Sox, I don't know, this is the first non-Sox player shirt I've bought. If this pans out okay, I will start saving for a Morgan Ensberg shirt.In November, when I happened to have a little extra cash (something that I cannot imagine these days) I bought myself tickets to the only Sea Dogs home series against the Seawolves. Baby Red Sox versus baby Tigers! And the final game of the series is the Father's Day game, so of course I bought an extra ticket for my dad. I am so excited about going to see the games, and I am extra excited about going with him, and of course since I bought tickets in November for a June series no one gives a shit about except me, I got awesome seats. If I'm this excited in February, I can't imagine how hysterical I'll be in June.
(This was a secondary concern while I was moving; as it stands, the building I'm in is within walking distance from Hadlock. It's a long walk, but I can walk it. If I ended up having to move out of town, two of the tickets would go to waste, since I don't drive and need either the bus or my legs to get places. So, another bonus of having moved upstairs: I didn't waste fourteen bucks on the first two games! Yay!)
I currently own four player shirts: Jason Varitek, which I got after the 2003 season ended and has never presented a problem other than being very unlucky to wear during games for a while in 2004, but that eventually flipped itself around; Curt Schilling, received as a Christmas gift in 2004; David Wells, purchased in 2005 shortly after spring training started, and incidentally I had to return and re-buy this one, since they got the number wrong the first time; and Mark Bellhorn, purchased August first, less than two weeks before his release and subsequent signing with the Yankees.
Curt Schilling - yeah, we all know what happened there, with the DL and the closing and the getting smeared by Tampa Bay. David Wells, with the DL and the plantar fascia and the very shaky start to the season. INTERESTING FOOTNOTE: After he swapped numbers with Renteria, he did a one-eighty and became one of our most reliable starters. The shirt I have is the old number three. I took the hint and have not replaced it with a sixteen. Mark Bellhorn, with the DL and the thumb and the sucking really hard (at playing, not the thumb). I got the shirt after all that happened, but I still can't help but notice the part where he got released and ended up with the Yankees after I bought that shirt. Don't even try and tell me I didn't have a shirt curse.
So. Given that all three shirts were purchased within the scope of 2005 (the Schilling shirt being given to me during the preceding offseason) and their players had such difficult seasons, and given that the Varitek shirt was purchased well before then and has not been a problem, I concluded that my shirt curse was a 2005 thing, and that once 2005 was forever gone, it would be safe to buy player shirts again. I decided that once pitchers and catchers reported, 2005 was safely behind us, so before I went to bed this morning I ordered my Bonderman shirt.
Now, please join me in hoping that I'm right. On the other hand, if I'm not, I'm totally buying a Johnny Damon shirt.
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