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Having lived a block from Fenway Park for the last three years, it became easy to forget that baseball is played outside of Red Sox "Nation." While the Red Sox will still own real estate in our hearts (unlike the Celtics, who are dead to us), we are more than ready to transfer our passions completely back to our real teams -- Dodgers for Trevor, Angels for Ashley. So, appropriately, during our free week in California, we were fortunate enough to visit our old friends in their lovely homes.

A Friday night trip to Dodger Stadium is always an automotive challenge (thanks for driving, Dad!), but once you hit your seat and look out to the field and the mountains beyond centerfield, you are reminded that it is worth the trouble. The Dodgers' pitchers combined for a one-hitter as they topped the Cubs, 2-1. So the Blue Crew did not disappoint and neither did the fireworks (!!) after the game.

@ Dodger Stadium

A few days later we met up with Ashley's parents for the Angels v. Tigers at "The Big A." It was perfectly warm and clear as the two division-leading teams faced off at the beautiful Anaheim Stadium.

Doug, Ashley, and Anita at le big A

We had great seats (Thanks Doug!) for a fantastic game, despite it ending as a 3-5 loss for the Halos. A man a couple rows in front of us got kicked out for saying certain visiting baseball professionals "suck!", but we controlled ourselves and stuck around long enough to take some nice action photos.

Bobby Abreu evaluating a pitch

Hopefully, we will continue to become fans of each other's teams. This was a step in the right direction (it's important to have equal representation) - but if it winds up as a Dodgers-Angels World Series, all progress on this matter will be erased.

P.S.: Over the next month we might also investigate the alleged existence of a San Diego major league franchise.