First Blog

I decided to begin writing a blog today. I have a l0t going on in my life right now and felt it would help me keep some things in order if I were to put them down on paper, or whatever. If you're sitting there reading this you're probably wondering what makes my life or experiences any more interesting to read about than any of the other twenty million blogs out there and the short answer is I don't know. It's certainly more interesting to me, but that is to be expected.


I am a thirty two year old guy who has spent way too much time in his life watching, thinking about, and talking about sports. I love baseball (Red Sox), Football (Patriots), and Basketball (World Champion Boston Celtics) http://www.nba.com/celtics/ , When I was a kid I also liked hockey, but since the Bruins started paying minimum wage they have been kind of tough to follow. That being said I did watch them in the playoffs last year and am sort of excited to see what they do this year.

Other than sports I am very interested in politics. Expect to see a lot of liberal leanings on this site. I am not so liberal that I believe more in the rights of criminals than I believe in the rights of the victims of their crimes. If the Presidential election were held right now I'd vote for Obama. On the other hand if John McCain won I would be proud to call him the President of the United States of America. He seems like an honorable man who has served his country in both war and peace.

Sports are easier to write about and in many ways easier to think about than anything else. Red Sox good Yankees bad. It is also much easier to look back on and see who was better. The Giants won the Super Bowl. That day they were a better football team than the Patriots. If Gore were elected, I mean actually got to be President after he was elected, it is easy to say we would be in a better place as a country right now. It's hard to imagine he would have fumbled as badly as old GW has over the last seven years, but he could have. I think that's one of the many things I like about sports, the fact that when the game is over someone won and someone lost. This is probably the main reason soccer has never really caught on with adults in America. We don't like spending two hours rooting for our team and having the game end in a tie. The games themselves are incredible, the athletes top notch, but if it's getting late in the game and there is no score a nagging voice starts asking why we bothered to watch at all.

The last thing I want to in my first ever blog is introduce my self to you. I was born at St. Elizabeth's hospital in Brighton MA. I now work at a different hospital fairly close to St. E's. In between I went to Don Bosco, then BC, had a daughter, got married, and am now expecting number 2. My wife and I haven't decided on a name yet and I think we're stuck. She loves the name Andrew and I am having trouble getting behind it. The kid would either be called Andy and sound like he was thirteen for the rest of his life, or Drew and remind me of the star qb for the Pat's who always broke my heart in the end. I'm no help whenever she asks me for input I look at the name book and throw something like Manfredo at her. I liked Brady for a first name, but she's against it because Tm Brady broke up with Bridgette Moynihan while she was pregnant. We're reliving the QB controversy that ignited a Patriot's dynasty in my own home. I'll have to remind her Brady beat out Drew for the job once and they won three Super Bowls.

Until Tomorrow:

JK