Life is good. Two reasons:

1. The Boston Red Sox moved to 3-0 in the World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals. The page will tell you the score and everything else that you need to know. On the side, I'm trying to figure out how best to extend this recent interest in the Red Sox past whatever outcome results.

I could try to go back and read George F. Will's book on baseball, and make a concerted effort to get to more of the local farm club's home games, which is actually on a 'to-do list'.

Oddly enough, I was speaking recently with a fixture in the local Republican Party, and I got asked who I was backing in the Series. I replied that I was for the Red Sox. Several seconds of quiet ensued on the telephone line, and then the caller said, "But that's John Kerry's team."

At this point, I had to think fast. Luckily, I'd come up with some lines earlier in the day about what I should say when something like the "Kerry's team" bit came up. Thanks to Jonah Goldberg, I was able to reference things like this, wherein Senator Kerry managed to bungle the score of the team he should know best. Although I am a fan of subtlety and nuance ("Knife in the kidney, or silenced pistol to the back of the head? No need to make much of a mess, and so forth...") I'm not entirely sure how one can nuance one's way through getting the wrong score. That is, if you're a dedicated long-time fan. Me, I have an excuse; numbers aren't my strength to begin with.

But not Senator Kerry. Must be too busy working on his plan to declare victory before all the votes are cast. At any rate, the individual on the other end of the conversation wasn't convinced by that and other justifications I trotted out. Gonna have to do some damage control, or something. Maybe if I burn a large "W '04" into the yard with fertilizer, I'll be able to escape suspicion.

2. While on the way home from watching the game, I also heard a Liz Phair song on the radio. It was one of her last singles, "Extraordinary", but nevertheless, it was Liz Phair on the radio, which is not something one hears every day.

She's a babe, eh.

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