What? Not watching baseball?

I'm roooting for the Sixers big time. Home court ad for the Nets, plus a possible road trip or two for me.

Last year my then-almost-13 year old son and I went up to Boston for game 6, when the Nets won the Eastern Conference championship. Man, that building was rocking. There were literally hundreds of Celtics fans in New Jersey for the games here, but I don't think there were ten Nets fans in the whole place that night. We drove up there, and listening to NY sports radio the whole way, all they were talking about were the Boston fans and their taunting of Jason Kidd and his wife. When we hit Hartford, we lost the NY station, but picked one up from Boston, and they were all talking about the same thing.

I had a sign in my rear window, "Nets in 6", and you'd be amazed how many times I got the middle finger from other drivers as we got closer to Boston. I explained to my son that perhaps it wasn't a good idea for him to wear his Jason Kidd jersey, but he insisted, and I'm glad he did. The Boston fans were really great--plenty of good natured taunting, but nothing too obnoxious or malicious--and my boy, who thought their accents were hilarious, responded to most of it by telling the taunters that people from "Bah-ston" were "re-tahds".

I know he'll remember that trip and that game, and that whole dream season for the Nets long after I'm gone.