Can’t Stop Showing My Kids the Ellsbury Steal
The kiddos watched two out of the three Red Sox-Yankees games this weekend, after the Old Towne Team did some good old fashioned sweeping of the series.
During game one — which The Spouse was able to attend in the flesh (I would’ve attended had he not gotten the tickets last-minute, too late to rustle up babysitting so I could join him) — the kids watched until around 9 p.m. or so then caught the rest of the 4-hour-21-minute odyssey on the DVR the next day. (”YOUK!!!!” I e-mailed to The Spouse after Kevin Youkilis won the game for the Sox, cheering wildly by myself in the family room, not really caring if I woke the kids. I didn’t by the way.)
On Saturday, we all watched the beginning of the game together, set the DVR, then went out to dinner. (It was killing me to hear the folks in the restaurant’s bar cheering and yelling, so The Spouse pulled out his BlackBerry and we followed the game’s progress on that.) When we returned home, the five of us watched the rest of the 4+ hours of the game off the DVR. (Can you say “grand slam?”)
Last night, with a dreadful 8 p.m. starting time on ESPN, the kids didn’t get to watch any of the game. They had to get up early to return to school after a long spring vacation. (*kicking up my heels*)
Until today. When they saw the Big Play. You know the one. That steal. Of home plate. By Jacoby Ellsbury, he with the fleet feet.
The Youngest Boy and I watched the home plate steal on SportsCenter this morning after his siblings had already left for school. The two fourth graders had to wait until after school to see the SportsCenter video, during which I beamed with enthusiasm as I watched them watching. However The Eldest Boy complained that the ESPN clip didn’t provide a good view of the amazing feat. So we went searching on YouTube for another vantage point and found a poor quality clip of the play, but because it provided the best, overhead view of something,which I told the kids is very rare, we thought it was awesome. (The Red Sox web site, we found later, has the same video, but I couldn’t embed that video here.)
I’ve played this clip multiple times for the kids. It still makes me smile.
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