The new comedy “Fever Pitch” isn’t nearly as exciting or surprising as the Boston Red Sox’s great comeback in the playoffs last year, that led to a World Series win, but the entertainment value could rival a pre-season Mets-Yankee game. And yes, that is a big game.

But for an avid baseball fan, the game may be more exciting.

In this Farrelly brothers film, the usual gross-out factor is kept to a surprising minimum. In its place is a cute romantic comedy between three love birds – Lindsey Meeks, played by Drew Barrymore, Ben Wrightman, played by Jimmy Fallon, and the Boston Red Sox.

Business-exec Lindsey meets schoolteacher Ben when he takes some of his ninth-grade geometry enthusiasts to a work environment where numbers are praised.

After back and forth pursuing, Ben finally picks up Lindsey for their date – and surprise! – she’s sick as a dog. So what does he do? Not only does he take care of her, put her to bed, help her change into her nightgown (“Don’t worry, I won’t look. Uh, sorry I looked.”), and let her sleep, he stays with her overnight and cleans up her vomit. It’s debatable whether this would be a good or bad start in a relationship.

Apparently, it’s good. So good, in fact, that you can’t even tell when the actual relationship begins. The concept of time seems like a lost concept in the film. He’s cleaning her dog’s teeth with her toothbrush after it eats her vomit one minute, inviting her to the opening game the next while she’s asking him to go to Paris. It’s not very clear.

When they begin to date, whenever that is, Lindsey’s friends point out the obvious – how is this cute and funny guy still single? As echoed by all singletons, there must be something wrong with him. Sure, some may say there’s something wrong, but any Boston fan would deny any wrongdoing.

Let’s cut to Ben waking up in his apartment by hitting his Red Sox alarm clock, rolling out of his Red Sox sheet-made bed under numerous Red Sox pictures, wearing his 1918 Red Sox championship shirt and his Red Sox boxers and walking to his Red Sox-clad bathroom, Red Sox towel in hand.

Lindsey accepts Ben’s obsession until she realizes that he will never get over his first love, baseball. Consequently, they break up only to realize that the only thing that can bring them together is exactly what broke them up – the Red Sox.

So the question remains – what’s wrong with being a fan? The film captures the true spirit of a fan, but in likelihood, not in die-hard Red Sox capacity – if that is even possible to capture in film.