{"id":1782,"date":"2007-10-05T09:42:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/10\/05\/why-im-still-east-exhibit-a\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T09:42:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T16:42:47","slug":"why-im-still-east-exhibit-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/10\/05\/why-im-still-east-exhibit-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I’m Still East: Exhibit A"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Where Everyone Wants to Be<\/a>
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Many of you – hell, most of you – have been positively baffled that I would schedule my entire life around my beloved Boston Red Sox. I’ve endured all manner of cruel taunts, malicious text messages and even a blog post or two as you’ve mocked my willingness to make my calendar subservient to a sport. <\/p>\n

But you know what? I have a ticket to tonight’s ballgame, and you don’t. Or I assume you don’t. Win or lose tonight, my plan to remain here in Maine will have been completely vindicated the moment I cross the threshold of one of baseball’s last remaining cathedrals. What seemed at one point a course of action predicated on astonishing naivete and pathological obsession looks more like cunning premeditation, in light of the cramped but not obstructed view seat I’ll be taking in a few hours. Luck favors the prepared, as they say, and it would be difficult if not impossible to opportunistically leverage the available ticket were I back in Denver. <\/p>\n

Incidentally, rumors that I did terrible, unspeakable things to procure this ticket are false. As far as you know, anyway. <\/p>\n

In other news, I’ll be staying over tonight and Saturday night to attend the GNOME Summit<\/a> in Boston. I’ve been meaning to make it here for a couple of years now, and being on the East Coast in October has advantages besides the relative proximity to Fenway.
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