Fever Pitch

S is for Spring. Spring is for baseball.

In the movie Fever Pitch, Drew Barrymore’s character dates a guy who is a diehard Red Sox fan. She goes to all of the games with him despite his crazy “fan girl” obsession because she loves him. His dedication to the team and through them, his grandfather’s memory, is something she is willing to put up with for the sake of their relationship.

My boyfriend AJ, who plays baseball for UC Riverside, had a game at SDSU, so my two friends, Steph and Tommy, and I made the difficult trek there to watch them play. Driving to the field we got lost and when we got there, Steph and I ran around the parking area trying to find the parking permits. When we finally arrived at the game, we were an hour late and almost four innings in. We still got to sit through two and a half hours for the last seven innings and cheered our boys on to victory. Although I’m sure he was ecstatic we were there, the end was the moment I’d been waiting all day for, getting to see my player for the few minutes before he left for school. Three hours of driving, stressing, cheering and anticipating in exchange for five minutes, but five perfect minutes with the boy I see every few weeks during the season. So worth it.