Amid the hustle and bustle on my way to work a few days back, I couldn't help but notice a plethora (yeah thats right, I said plethora. look it up) of enormous balls all around me. No... not like that... it wasn't that kind of morning... I'm talking about sports balls!!!
First, just outside the TD Banknorth Garden, I felt compelled by my long-dormant Celtics pride to snap these pictures...
It feels great to see the trophy there and everything... but isn't this a little jinxy? I was blown away by the devil-may-care attitude they had with those TV commercials, where the players are holding/kissing the real trophy... I would never agree to do that if I was a player! But I guess since both teams are doing the commercials, and both have the giant trophy outside their stadiums, there's equal jinxing going on.
But I mean we all know that jinxing isn't our biggest worry... I think that, god forbid, if the Celtics fail to win tonight, I am going to begin to smell a rat. According to the Los Angeles Times, Game 3 was the highest rated NBA finals game since 2004. Why wouldn't the NBA and ABC want to extend this thing to seven games? I'm going to be watching the calls very carefully tonight. But lets try to be a little optimistic: GO CELTICS!!!!
Now on to America's Pastime. This giant ball shocked me a little bit:
I mean everyone knows their place of work is someday going to be turned into a giant ball, but it's still always a shock when it finally happens. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that ball is the Charles Hayden Planetarium, all decked out baseball-style for the new exhibit at the Museum of Science, "Baseball as America." It's got a really janky title, and the exhibit contains about as much science as the "theory" of intelligent design, but it's still pretty cool. If I didn't already get to see everything for free, I would probably pay admission price just to see Curt Schilling's Bloody Sock. They also have cool interactive pitching and batting cages where you can test your strength and your reflexes. And you won't be embarassed to give it a try because, heck, it's the Museum of Science. Anyone who can actually hit, catch, or throw a baseball is out there playing, not inside at a Museum.
But yeah I definitely recommend checking out Baseball As America, and while you're here, swing by the planetarium where you can find the most exciting exhibit of all: me, in my natural habitat.
Click here to read up on Tim Donaghy, the NBA ref accused of fixing the NBA playoffs in 2002.
Click here to read a fantastic Boston Globe review of Baseball as America, written by Mark Feeney, who comes up with some highly creative imagery regarding the aforementioned Bloody Sock.
Click here to read some sadder news about the Museum of Science. Last Tuesday, over forty of our employees were laid off. Luckily my immediate department was spared, but it was a terrible day for the whole Museum.
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