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Mill Street Radio. Welcome to Love Letters. I'm Meredith Goldstein. So today's episode is a public service to me,

because now that it's November, it's a very unromantic time. We go from the sexiest holiday,

Halloween, to a period of the year that is a lot of sports. Football, hockey, basketball, sometimes baseball is still happening right around now.

Maybe not this year, I don't even know. All I'm sure of is that right at this beautiful moment, even though it's cozy and there's pumpkin spice everything, a lot of people are solely focused on games.

When I was younger in trying to date, this bummed me out so much. Back in the day, I had a boyfriend or two who arranged outings

around the Celtics. And this is not gender-specific, of course. Anyone can be obsessed

sports fans. While I've gotten better at working around people's passions,

as a person allergic to sports, it can be difficult.

And now, I know what you're going to say.

Being a fan of music and TV shows is the same,

and not everybody has to like what you like.

But being a big sports fan is different than enjoying the arts.

If you're watching the summer I turn pretty, for instance,

there's a finite number of episodes you can plan your life around.

But with sports, there are one billion games.

It's inescapable.

And if you're into fantasy sports, every game somehow counts.

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