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...problems with “Dawson’s Creek.” First, all six seasons of the show are set in Massachusetts, the first four in the fictional Capeside, and then in Boston for the college years. Yet there is almost no mention of the Red Sox. The most important cultural institution New England has ever produced barely exists. True, Dawson is a bit of a weenie, but surely Pacey could be a Red Sox fan? Or how about some kind of rivalry with New Yorker Jen concerning the Yankees? Nothing...
Competitive spirits ran high as students bid on Red Sox tickets, newspaper ads, and the Moose Unit, among other prizes, in the Dunster Junior Common Room...
...also bummed around in the Boston dugout. We finagled a way to stay on the field for as long as possible, watching the Red Sox and A’s take batting and fielding practice before that night’s game, and witnessed the incomparable spectacle that is Manny Ramirez bare-handing groundballs at third base. We also, inexplicably, managed a way to stay for the whole game...
Most memorably, we walked down to the Sox locker room, right into the den of the now-mythic gaggle of “idiots,” and everywhere we turned, there was someone I’d once resisted drafting in fantasy baseball. Alex and I interviewed Nomar, Johnny Damon, Ellis Burks. We watched Pokey Reese bizarrely play a hunting video game on Xbox with the help of Alan Embree...
Today, I am reminded of all of that—of shaking hands with the Red Sox and being reduced, in a big way, to a little Boston fan who can’t get over the fact that he shook hands with his heroes...