because i love paul giamatti, even if he is a sox fan...

When Dad was the ultimate baseball insider, Paul wasn't interested in collecting autographs from his beloved Red Sox -- he wanted to meet the umpires. "I was fascinated by them," he says, excitedly. "They're the great moral arbiters of the game, and they're these weird, chunky blue-collar guys, so separate from the game but so much a part of it. When I was a little kid, I wanted to get a chest protector like the home-plate umpires just because I thought they looked really cool. How fucking weird is that, that I was obsessed by the umpires?"