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Aug
23
Take me out to the ball game…
2009 at 8am Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
Despite our usual insistence on spending Sundays on the couch in our pajamas, hubby and I are heading to D.C. to take in a Nationals game with a group of his coworkers today. I’m excited about this for two reasons:
1) It is no longer 100 degrees outside with 100% humidity here in Virginia, so a day at the ballpark should actually be kind of enjoyable, even if it is several hours of forced socializing with people I don’t really know.
2) Ballpark hot dogs. Need I say more?
We don’t even care that the Nationals are the worst team in the nation right now because all of our love goes to the St. Louis Cardinals and this man, Albert Pujols (the first baseman), on whom hubby has a ginormous man-crush. (Bear with me….I swear I’ll bring this back around to reading.).
In honor of our day at the ballpark, let me share this humiliating humorous statement hubby recently made about Mr. Pujols.
“If Albert Pujols were a horse, he’d be a unicorn. Because he’s SO AWESOME!”
What? You don’t see the resemblance?
Now, I will give it to hubby that Pujols’s skills are so amazing that he just might be magical. But really? A unicorn?
I won’t even mention the funny little shimmy-dance-wiggle thing that accompanied this gleeful statement. Man-crush. For reals.
The hidden benefit of all this love for Alby? It gives me tons of extra time to read. While hubby’s living, eating, and breathing Cardinals baseball from April to November, I’m curling up next to him with my book of choice. I’d wager that at least a third of the books I’ve read in the eight years we’ve been together, I’ve read with sports on in the background.
(See? I brought it back to books. You really think I’d make you look at this creepy unicorn without at least a little book talk?)
Moral of the story? If you want to find more time to read, marry someone who loves to watch sports….even if you do occasionally worry that he just might leave you for his “big, bald, sweaty stallion of a man.”
Yes. That’s a direct quote.
Now bring on the CrackerJacks before I start wishing I’d brought a book with me.
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I hope you have a great time!
LOL LOL….my husband is a sports nut (all sports even boxing ugh), but I cannot read and sit there while he watches. I need quiet.
I do love the Cardinals uniforms, but my heart belongs to Boston
enjoy the fun at the ballpark
LOL! I love sports as much as my hubby so that doesn’t work for me but he does love to watch almost any educational show on television and I’m just not that into most of them. That’s when I get a lot of reading done.
It’s oh so true. Hamburger loves football and basketball, so we’re just now coming out of the long dry spell of no sports to watch, which means my reading was being interrupted by channel surfing. It’s much easier to concentrate on your reading when the channel is not changing every 10 seconds!
Hah! When my husband runs out of fresh sports, he switches to the Classic Sports channel! Gives me lots of time to read!
Haha! I haven’t got a husband, but I do have to admit that I’ve done some of my best reading while my dad was watching football…
Your story made me laugh. My son loves Charlie the Unicorn from youtube. Your husband actually sounds pretty cool!! Enjoy your game time!!
A unicorn, huh? Not a clydesdale but a unicorn? Alrighty then!
I do most of my reading with sports on in the background as well
So glad to hear of hubby’s loyalty to the best baseball team ever.
[...] Take me out to the ball game… [...]
I have to say, as a fellow native of Kansas City, that I’m devastated that you are a Cardinals fan! I know the Royals aren’t anything to write home about, but Greinke had 15 strikeouts last night!
Despite my love for the Royals, I will continue to read your blog because I love books and your writing about them.
And ballpark hotdogs are awesome!
If it makes it any better, Emma, I’m originally from Alabama. Not sure how that’s related, but oh well. Thanks for seeing past this fault of mine and hanging around!