I have to admit that I’ve been mildly obsessed with a website over the past week.  And I’m not the kind of person to really keep hitting up a site to see if there’s been any kind of response, so it kind of disturbs me.

I’ve been trying to score a pair of tickets to see my beloved Boston Red Sox play the San Diego Padres in interleague play in June, and, since the game is sold out, The Girlfriend™ has shown me how to use eBay to attempt to bid on a great pair of seats.  Problem is, now I’m being outbid, and I have to call her in, as well as power eBayer The Best Friend®, in order to explain to me how these stupid online-bidding shenanigans go.  The dumb thing about all of this is that I know it’s going to come down to some quick action on my part in the last 5 minutes of the auction, so all this buildup means nothing to me unless I’m sitting at the machine tomorrow afternoon and can slide in at the last minute, but I’m also slightly tense because I’ve been bidding against some ticket brokers, which means they’re willing to pay a decent amount for the pair so they can spin them to some other fanatical member of Red Sox Nation.

I haven’t seen the Sox in several years.  And on the spectrum of my love-hate relationship with Boston, the Red Sox are definitely on the extreme love side.  To see them play again… well, that’d be just a night I’d remember for a while.  (And before you ask — yes, I know they’re playing the Angels out in Anaheim soon, but it’s a weeknight series, and the chances of me being able to fight L.A. traffic to get out to Anaheim by 7:05 are somewhere in the neighborhood of me also winning a $100 million lottery on the same night I’m struck by lightning at the same time a plane drops out of the sky on my head.) So if anyone has any eBay tips for me, I’d be more than willing to take them, since this the first time I’ve ever done this.