the yankees...

oh dear, i need to come clean! i am now addicted with the yankees...this won't surprise too many of my good friends who already know me to be something of a sports freak! but a couple of days ago ben and i could find nothing on tv and came across a MLB (major league baseball) game on Foxtel....sooo because it was the yankees and i have worn their cap for years (of course i can hear you saying, they wear blue!), i figured i should support them...

so today i find myself rushing in just after 2pm when i'd finished my errands, turn the tv on and am stressed out when i see that it's 4 all in the bottom of the 8th (yep, i now actually know what this means) - so in an amazing 9th innings the yankees, courtesy of johnny damon and alex rodriguez (a-rod) get the yankees to a 7-4 lead and a 3-1 lead in the 7 game series - so game 5 is on tuesday night US time and if they win, they win the pennant!

it's bizarre - baseball is never a game i've really shown any interest in, mainly coz i didn't understand it and i thought it took too long (and this from a test match cricket lover!) but now i actually understand it - of course i don't understand all of the american commentary (who would?) but i understand the structure of the game and think that i now even have a favourite player!

yep, johnny damon is i think my fave as of today...

the question is this: do i really need yet another sport to follow???