"Glee"fully Watching Baseball

I am very into baseball. It is one of my favorite sports to watch, both live and on tv. I am a Cardinals fan through and through, and am willing to miss almost anything else to see a game.

As a baseball fan, the World Series is a big deal. Even if you team isn't playing (which happens quite a bit), it is an exciting part of the sport and usually one of my fall highlights. HOWEVER, this year TWO of the World Series games have fallen on Wednesdays. Usually that would be a big deal, but there is more to me that just baseball!

I am also a musically oriented person. I love to sing along to the radio, play piano, blast my iPod far louder than appropriate at work, etc. I did show choir in junior high, but chose to perform with my church's large musical productions (I mean LARGE!!!) rather than do high school show choir (which also conflicted with fall tennis). My favorite sing-along in my car is a tape of my sister's senior year of choir. I am pretty sure I went to EVERY performance they had because my parents were chaperones. I even remember some of the choreography, which is impressive if you consider that I was in 4th grade when the tape was made. I tend to believe that I was born musical, but I attribute at least part of my insane love of the Fox show "Glee" to my sister's year's of show choir.

If you aren't familiar with it (and haven't seen all the commercials), "Glee" is a show about a high school glee club. In the pilot episode last spring, the group sang one of the songs on my sister's tape. I was hooked immediately! The group of kids in glee club are eclectic to say the least. They are from all social circles, but share a love for music. Some are there for the passion, some for the glory. Some for the friendships, some for devious reasons, and some because they just don't really fit anywhere else. The music is fabulous, and the plot lines are so true to life. I know that I did not have a normal high school experience, for a variety of reasons. But I can see myself in nearly every character in Glee, which is the other reason why I like the show. It is very REAL for me, exposing many of the struggles I felt in high school. But it is still light enough to be funny and enjoyable to watch. Clearly, I like the show a lot.

So here is the problem. These two pesky Wednesday World Series games have prevented me from watching Glee!! What would usually be exciting tv for me has become 9 innings of "nothing else to watch." I am sure that if the Cardinals were playing I would be willing to miss Glee to watch the games, but the Phillies and the Yankees? Especially with the Yankees winnings? Ugh! BRING BACK THE MUSIC!!!!! I NEED MY GLEE!!!!!