Joy in Mudville

So yesterday around 2:00 I hear the news about Jim Rice being elected to the baseball Hall of Fame.

I instantly shoot off an email to Wifey because I know she'll be excited and because I know she knows that Big Jim was (and is) my all time favorite player. Ever:

ME: "JIM RICE JUST GOT ELECTED TO THE HALL OF FAME!!"

WIFEY: "I heard"

ME: "We'll celebrate it tonight!"

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So after a day of giddy excitement I finally get home and I spot my oldest daughter in the living room:

ME: "Hey...great news about Jim Rice, huh?"

OLDEST: "Who is Jim Rice?"

ME: "My all-time favorite Red Sox player and he just got elected to the Hall of Fame!"

OLDEST: ::crickets::

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And then I spot Wifey.

I put my arms around her waist and just hold her for a second.

ME: "Did you tear up when you heard the news?"

WIFEY: "What news?"

ME: "About Jim Rice getting elected to the Hall of Fame on his final try!"

WIFEY: "No."

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And then the celebration began!

I ate dinner alone on my special Jim Rice Got Elected To The Hall Of Fame Chair.

Dinner consisted of what we now call The Jim Ed Rice Special: Ham and eggs and a bagel, milk and orange juice. (Denny's would call it the Hall Of Fame Slam)
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And the celebration continued:

On over to the couch where me and Wifey watched three or four sitcoms in honor of Jim Rice being elected to The Hall of Fame!

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Obviously Wifey was exhausted from the celebration and went on up to bed. I stayed downstairs alone and partied like it was 1999!

Or something.

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It was now past midnight. No more party noise from the neighborhood.

So I went up to bed.

And in my celebration haze I must have woke up Wifey from a bad dream where Jim Rice DIDN'T get elected to the Hall of Fame....cuz she sounded kinda mad.

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SO TO SUM UP:

Jim Rice, Hall of Famer.