watch a sporting event at a stadium that you have never had any interest in before

I’ve had an interest in baseball, but I’ve never had any interest in the Seattle Mariners or in Safeco Field. However, in June I had to take a disabled client to a game. She’s 79 and it’s a cherished yearly ritual for her. And I guess as a Red Sox fan myself since embryohood I can kind of understand the poignancy of devotion to a team that perhaps isn’t always very successful.

Most of the time we were there I spent standing in line to buy her things, but I actually started paying attention by the fifth or sixth inning, and I was truly suffused with joy in the top of the ninth when J.J. Putz struck out Barry Bonds and the whole thing ended happily for our side.