Baseball season

Coffee is a New Englander bred, if not born and raised and like me, she is devoted to the Red Sox. This photo captures the historic moment of Coffee listening to the Sox win the 2007 World Series -- we don't have cable so I subscribe to the radio feed online, through Major League Baseball's audio/video subscription -- it's a great deal, $15 for the whole season including playoffs and it's a fun old-fashioned way to follow the teams.

Since the point of this whole exercise is blogs I should point out that the new-fashioned way to follow your teams especially when you live far from home is via blogs -- my favorite for the Sox are Extra Bases, the Globe's baseball blog, and Boston Dirt Dogs, the rabid Red Sox fan blog. There's also 38 Pitches, pitcher Curt Schilling's blog, which gives an interesting inside take on the game. The New York Times baseball blog, Bats, is also very good although naturally too Yankee-centric for my taste. The newspaper based sites will often provide continuous updates throughout a game of what's going on, so if you don't happen to have a subscription or other access to the radio or TV, that's another way to follow a game as it's happening.