A Nice Rivalry

It is rare when I get to use sports as something that I post in this blog. But as I had always dreamed I was lucky enough to marry a knowledgeable, savvy, sports fan. Add in her amazing ability to "talk smack" and well the relationship gets even stronger.

So that you are reminded that this post isn't about our respective teams and more about you, I'll remind you of this. One of the most attractive things about you is your ability to share things important to me with me. So we have the upcoming baseball season. We are both passionate about our teams. It gives us yet another thing to share with each other, even if creates an argument or two. It really gets good when I get to drop a few "you shouldn't even wear pants" comments during a given conversation. I love that we have that ability to communicate about so many different things and on so many different levels. Who knows maybe one day you actually care about the business I am in enough involve yourself in that as well. But we will save that for another time.

So now on to sports. Football season was easy. We share common interests there. Love our Badgers (for our family full of Badger girls!), both elated when we beat Ohio State, both cringed when the Horned Frogs pulled off the miracle in Pasadena. We both love the Bears and they took us for quite a ride this year. And while we argued over my love for Jay Cutler and your distaste for him, overall we were in sync all season. We both loathe the Packers and got to share the joys of despising their arrogance after the season ended in January.

We rooted on the Badgers in college basketball. Again a big victory over Ohio State and the introduction of the "trick TV watching" method that allows us to come back from big deficits so long as we aren't watching. You made my hospital stay entertaining with your cheering during March Madness for your Cinderella bracket.

That brings us to baseball season. One filled with high hopes for us both. My Brewers and your White Sox. Pundits are scattered over their opinions on both, but we both hold high hopes. It is going to cause some arguments and debates over the summer, but they will be the kind of thing we share together. I'll likely mention the 'pants" thing a few hundred times when you find little stat snippets and insights I wasn't expecting (I guess I should be expecting them by now). I'll smile when the Sox make you happy, you'll get mad when I sulk over a Brewer loss and we will both smile when our teams win. We will attend many games for both teams, with us squarely in Chicago come then pending Sox playoff run and me wishing I was able to attend more Brewer games during their September run.

For now I forgive you for turning my little girls against me on their Brewer fandom, but I had to know it was inevitable anyway. Plus I secretly love it when you all 3 have something fun to tease me about.

So if all goes well - a Sox vs Brewers World Series! We might actually need some of those separate rooms in the new place during those 2 weeks. But it will sure be a nice problem.

Thanks for sharing in all of my life my love. Not every husband is as lucky as I am and always have been. You just being you is as sexy as it ever was sweetie. I'll even refrain from dropping a "Go Brewers" in this post. But for you (and my curse withstanding as it is proven to not work in print) ---- "Go Sox!"

You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.