Some purchases are better than others and the call to buy the gy-normous sports package for something like 25 bucks a month has turned out to be one of the best. I have decided that I truly like watching sports. You must be shocked. I like playing sports, too, but when it is 9 pm, kids in bed and there is a Red Sox game on - that is simply a good thing. In fact, I have largely abandoned TV for anything other than local news, weather and about 67 sports channels.

Last night's game was a case in point. Busy work day followed by as much of moving as the now departed muggy weather would allow. Drained and whacked. Then, what better to join in at Fenway for the last three innings or so. And what a game. A walk-off two-run double by Loretta the day after a walk-off three-run homer by Big Papi and sitting there you watch it unfold knowing that there is a very good likelihood that it will. It is like playoff hockey head - the state you get into somewhere late in the first round of the NHL playoffs when you know the guy is going left and not right before he does it. Yet it is there every day. There in my brain. The knowledge.

Best 25 bucks I ever added to the budget.