November 5, 2009

The Yankees won the World Series last night. My mom stayed up to watch the finale. My mom doesn’t even stay up to finish her Danielle Steele movies, and those are really important to her. Joanna and I stopped liking baseball when we discovered soccer. I still like the Yankees but not as a baseball team, just as a symbol of my childhood. As kids Joanna and I used to wear our Yankee caps sideways. That was back when Matt, Dominic, and David used to tease us for being girls. They stopped teasing us the year we won the talent show. We wore our Yankee caps sideways that day. I had a crush on Martin that year. So did Talia, but Talia didn’t shower. She also didn’t like the Yankees like Joanna and I did. She also couldn’t dance like Joanna and I could. To this day I think Joanna is the only white friend I have who can booty drop at the drop of a hat. I guess that’s what happens when you grow up listening to Destiny’s Child. I was the first kid on the playground to wear one leg of my sweats rolled up. I was the first kid on the playground to master the C-Walk. Then someone told me that was a gang sign and I stopped. That was the year Joanna and I started watching soccer and stopped wearing our Yankee caps sideways. That was the year the Yankees lost the World Series for the first time in a long time. That was also the year I read my first Danielle Steele novel.