Talk about perspective, even for a sports reporter who has lived and breathed sports for more than four decades.
As a lifelong fan of the Detroit Red Wings (I grew up in Detroit and hockey is my favorite sport), the last 15 years have been a lot of fun.
Still, that doesn't mean that I was ready for my most beloved of all sports teams to relinquish its crown to a young up-and-coming team just yet.
However in Games 6 and 7 against the highest of pressure, the Pittsburgh Penguins simply proved they wanted it more -- thus earning the Stanley Cup in the process.
I felt this thing slip away when the Wings didn't put the Pens away in Game 6, something Detroit always has done in its recent history.
On Friday night when Pittsburgh scored its second goal to open a 2-0 lead, I knew it was over.
But a funny thing happened.
You see, I have two children and while my 6-year-old son Andrew (also an avid Red Wings fan) was watching with me in calm disbelief, my daughter Alexis, who will turn three in August, was making a commotion.
She had one of her babies and was putting the doll on the bottom step heading upstairs, which is where Alexis is forced to sit when she isn't behaving properly.
Alexis yelled at this baby. "I told you to sit on the step baby. You are on time out. Don't move."
She said this a couple of times and when I finally realized what she was doing I laughed -- very hard. I looked over at Andrew, he smiled -- very brightly.
All of a sudden my beloved, but crashing Red Wings just didn't seem so important after all.
Thank you Alexis (and baby).
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