Ah, Torre, my old friend. Do you know the Commonwealth proverb that revenge is a dish best served cold? It is very cold in Comerica Park.¹

The Tigers have eliminated the hated Yankees in four games. This is favorable news. Since the Sox are out of contention, I'm having to consider alternative outcomes and their relative acceptability. Now that the Yankees are gone, the only truly hated team remaining is the Mets. The Dodgers will probably fall to them, but I'm counting on the Curse of the NL as my fallback scenario.

Life is now better since the Yankees are out of the postseason.

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¹ All the more appropriate since I was flipping back and forth between Star Trek II and various SEC football games this evening when I found out.

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...a hat with the logo of the New York Yankees?

Rich Lowry suggests that this might change the so-called "cartoon riots" from "threat to our civilization" to the "natural exuberance of Yankee fans."

Perhaps they're burning that particular banner as a Bronx tribute to the arrival of Judas Johnny Damon, I'm not sure that---wait, what am I saying? These guys are making the Yankees look bad. Hey you, on the right, get closer to the camera. Yeah, take out that American flag the nice secret police officer gave you earlier. Make sure that the interlocking 'NY' is visible right when you light the next flag, OK? America's team, indeed.

I'd suggest it as the typical boorishness and nekulturniy behavior associated with the City of New York and the fans of one of its baseball clubs. (What's that about Bernie Williams and a Boston fan last season? Can't hear you.)

Yes, this is a cheap shot against the Yankees, but hey, what're blogs for if not for cheap shots? And no, I'm still not fully recovered from one of these nasty little 48-72 hour bugs, so my response to Grim and the Webb backers is still pending.

UPDATE: And yes, Lowry's post has been noticed over at Soxaholix. Bravo, h.b.

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Or, an alternative perspective:

Official 2005 Red Sox Nation membership card: $5
Unloading Johnny Damon to the Yankees: ~$52M over four years
The NYY logo displayed by Islamic extremists: Priceless

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In case you were like me and had gone MEGO during various points in last night's telecast, you probably only vaguely remember the Burger King ad. I wasn't particularly viable--but not persistently vegetative---at that point, and so most of it reflected on my glasses and went no further.

I remember the girls stacking up, thinking that this could be construed very filthily, snickering at mayonnaise, and I recall someone oohing over Brooke Burke. Oh, and the King off to the side. www.whopperettes.com (Take that, Diet Pepsi ads and Jay Bore Mohr.)

Anyways, if you want a much deeper analysis of the BK ad, visit Soxaholix.

Doug and Mike break down the deep meaning of the commercial utilizing Doug's years of Catholic school education and ultimately come to a strange conclusion regarding the holiness of the Whoppah.

On the other hand, I've noticed something: Strangely absent from any discussion is that terrifying Harrison Ford/Dr. Seuss collaboration. How far has Han Solo fallen when he appears, replete with beard and earring, to pitch...something as if he were an infomercial veteran? Oh, the places you'll go and the depths to which you've sunk.

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This also bears notice:

A regular poster at Soxaholix points out that the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, Ben S. Bernanke, is/was a fan of the Boston Red Sox.

I didn't know this until this morning, but then again, I was busy doing other things when the man's name was announced, and monetary policy generally operates above my educational grade. A quick check of Google notes less than eight hundred mentions of it, so maybe it's not super-widespread knowledge.

At any rate, I do not necessarily share in "Mr. Silverstein's" analysis, but it is interesting to note. Anyone who'd cut class at MIT to watch the Red Sox can't be all bad. I just wonder if he has abandoned them for the Washington Nationals, or if it's a two-team thing that I'm remarkably familiar with.

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"God's in His heaven; all's right with the world!"

Theo Epstein returns to Fenway Park

This is news from the earlier part of the day, but I just now got the time to post it. Perhaps there shall be revenge upon the other Sox, and perhaps another thrilling victory over the hated Yankees. Hooray! Hooray!

Rah rah rass, kick Steinbrenner's [expletive deleted]!

OK, back to cleaning out stuff.

EDIT: In my (probably premature) elation, I forgot to mention this: Enthusiastic tip of the battered Red Sox hat to The Soxaholix.

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-Johnny Damon, you are dead to me. If you were on fire in the street in front of me, I would not put you out. In fact, I'd probably be the reason you were on fire in the street to begin with.

That being said, the loss of Johnny Damon to the Yankees is not the end of the world. He's not Ted Williams, after all. Even EA Sports' MVP 2005 says the man has a candy arm. I distinctly remember something on the order of, "They like hitting to center field, 'cause they know it's not coming back at them..."

Commenters on a pair of threads at Soxaholix noted that Damon wanted too much money for what he was worth to the team. The front office either got caught by surprised, or agreed with the analysis of the commenters. We shall see how Mr. Damon does in the City of New York.

-The prospect of getting Miguel Tejada is not unwelcome. A long-time Orioles fan that I know would probably swallow his tongue if Boston picked him up, so it might be worth pursuing on that basis alone. It would be fun calling him up and laughing every time Tejada contributes to a Boston win, especially over Baltimore.

-I am eagerly looking forward to following as many games as possible on my new XM radio. That "FEBRUARY 16, 2006" notation on the lower info line mocks me too much! Of course, I'll have to buy a home kit for the thing so that I can lay out in the back yard looking at the stars or something.

-I need a new Red Sox hat. Mine now is faded as if it were an old Conrail unit that last saw the paint shop prior to the introduction of the "CONRAIL QUALITY" scheme. This has been confirmed by comparison of pictures taken December 2004 and visual inspection as of December 2005.

UPDATE: What was I thinking, mentioning Conrail where the Norfolk and Western Railway would do? May the shade of Racehorse Smith forgive me! My Red Sox hat is faded like an N&W unit painted in Pevler Blue. Ahem.

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In lieu of maintaining something over in the sidebar, I decided to centralize all Red Sox linking functions via means of a single entry. Therefore, you'll click over on a single link in the sidebar, and see what your humble correspondent uses to participate in Red Sox Nation.¹ This list will probably be dynamic, so check back occasionally. Additional posts will usually signify added content.

redsox.com - The official MLB-hosted site. It's downright hideous to look at, but one does get the company spin from it, for what that's worth.

The Soxaholix - A profane clip-art cartoon keeping track of the team and what not. Highly recommended for those over the age of 18.

Soxblog - Doesn't just cover the Red Sox, but does do it well. Currently, there's a rather in-depth take (defense of Larry Lucchino?) on the departure of Theo Epstein from the front office.

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¹ Try saying that without rolling your eyes. For what it's worth, I haven't ponied up for one of the 'official memberships' and I don't intend to. I don't need Larry Lucchino's approval to root for them, after all.

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Yay, the hated Yankees are defeated in Fenway Park, 8-5. Recent acquisition Edgar Renteria was responsible for a two-run homer early in the game and an RBI double in the eighth inning to secure Boston's win.

Gary Sheffield should've been tossed, from what I saw. Regardless of what the ESPN announcers said in their oh-so-shocked tones, it looked like Sheffield threw a punch (or something) at that fan. Enh, not my problem; I'm not an attorney in the Boston area.

I must say that I'm very fond of the MLB.com live game coverage applet that they've got through redsox.com; it's rather nifty. Better than being there, especially if there's no chance of being there.

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Despite a rally in Toronto, the Red Sox (2-2) held off the Blue Jays (2-2), winning 6-5 at the Jays' home debut. Catcher Jason Varitek and right fielder Trot Nixon both gathered solo home runs to help boost the Boston score. As a result of the week's activity, there's a five-way tie for first (at least to my uneducated viewing) in the AL East.

The full story from MLB.com is here.

NB: The hated Yankees lost 12-5 to Baltimore yesterday, so that is a good thing. And yes, I'll probably go see Fever Pitch, assuming I can talk this girl I know into it. She's a Red Sox fan as well, so this could be a good thing. It'll have to be, in order for me to stomach a Drew Barrymore film. Whenever she shows up, I suppose the necessary countermeasure will be either taking an anti-nausea pill or taking a sip of something strong.

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Tee hee. It appears that the watchwords of some Ohio Democrats are, "The campaign continues", a la William "The Poster Child for Voter Fraud" Daley's remarks in 2000.

Shannen Coffin's latest posting in The Corner mocks the work of these Ohio Democrats (and links to a publication who's covering this story) with the following snarky quip that earned a snicker:

In a related story, New York Yankee General Manager Brian Cashman has filed a belated protest of the American League Championship Series, claiming that A-Rod was really just trying to shake Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo's hand when he knocked the ball loose in Game 6.

Heh heh heh. That's got to rankle the Lopez-Lowry Axis just a bit. Sooner or later, I'll post excerpts from a reader's message who wanted to know just what it was that I saw in the Red Sox. I've been meaning to do that, but computer trouble and time constraints have conspired against me.

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Heh heh heh. I'm sitting here at the computer with ye olde Red Sox hat on, and Carl Cameron just said something funny, noting that Senator Kerry walked under a banner that said something about "CONGRATULATIONS BOSTON RED SOX" and how Boston was hoping for back to back victories.

Cue Warner Wolf: If you had the Red Sox in four games, you won. If you had the Red Sox and John Kerry, YOU LOST! Heh heh heh. It was good that Boston won because they used up all of that city's luck prior to the election. Hooray!

Anyways, liveblogging will now commence.

1354: Hrrm, I've been to this place, Faneuil Hall. The Kerry family is out there; Senator Kerry now out on the podium with Edwards.

1357: Every vote matters, blah blah every vote counts, yeah yeah, I hear Mike Ditka's still counting fourth-and-inches from some game back in the 1980s. Keep it up, Edwards.

1400: What's this "fight has just begun" stuff? You lost. Get out. It's over. You had almost two years to begin your fight. Cripes, that's ridiculous. I didn't miss anything to vote, and it took me all of about ten minutes.

1403: Yay, he says 'idear'. I like that.

1405 Enough about group hugs and wrapping arms around everyone. That's not a manly thing to say, Senator. Steel your considerable jaw and say, "Well, we lost."

1408: All the kids were there every step of the way, including that one daughter who wore the see-through top at Cannes or somewhere. Here we go, mentioning Vietnam, his "great band of brothers". Senator, I watched Richard Winters. I liked Richard Winters. You sir are no Richard Winters.

1412: Senator, mentioning kids who give from their piggy banks to your campaign is trite, when men like George Soros have essentially underwritten your effort. Admittedly, I wouldn't talk about Soros either if I was in Kerry's shoes.

1414: Augh, hearing him say that he wishes he could have brought the race home hurts. I hate seeing candidates say things like that, because I know it's a painful thing to do. I am, however, appreciative of Senator Kerry's remarks towards reconciliation, as opposed to a Dean-style theory of warfare.

1417: An announcement of his continuance in the Senate? Possibly.

1420: John Hillen of National Review provides an interesting summary.

1425: Well, that's over. Enough of this sordid electioneering, and back to the more important things. Priority number one: Slaughter our enemies and meet them with the unified and ruthless force that this Republic is capable of generating. Secondly, improve the moral health of the nation, where possible for the President, and hope that we can maintain the favor of Almighty God. Thirdly, improve our economy so that food banks and food pantries are rarely needed, and to the point that our States have lesser need for welfare rolls.

I'll borrow from Senator Kerry's short prayer: "God bless America."

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Oh, bollocks and bother. I'm watching the news on NBC, specifically their fawning coverage of Senator John Kerry. He's at some worthless rally in some battleground State, when I stop listening and start looking.

Lo and behold, he appears to have the same Boston Red Sox hat that I do. Admittedly, this can't be too surprising, given the fact that their hat logo's pretty generic. There's not a lot that can be done with a red 'B'. Nonetheless, I'd bet that my hat was bought before his was, and I've got the receipt to prove it.

At any rate, I'm hoping that the collective States in the New England area used up all their luck last week in the World Series, and that Senator Kerry won't have anything to draw on. I'll be voting early---but not often, !@#$---tomorrow so that I'll have done my civic duty in voting for George W. Bush and the Republican Party's congressional candidate. Down with Kerry/Edwards '04!

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After basking in the afterglow of the absolute best day that I've ever had in terms of traffic, I figured I'd continue with the Red Sox postings. It's not like I have a lot of other material banging on the doors to get out.

I always like to look for hindsight coincidences, because either I'm good at constructing them, or there really are odd things where events arrange themselves to lead to an interesting conclusion. Some time last week, and prior to the completion of the ALCS comeback, a card arrived in the mail from Best Buy. It was addressed to me, and announced that I was now a subscriber to Sports Illustrated. OK, I said. That's nice. It'll join Computer Gaming World on the list of "Magazines I Don't Subscribe To But Which Come Anyways".

Fast forward to two days ago. The Red Sox win the World Series, and I start trying to preserve the newspaper coverage of the event. (Yes, I'm going to call the Boston Globe and ask them about buying a copy of the celebratory paper; surely to God they'll have extras printed.) I go to the mailbox yesterday, and pick up the contents, idly leafing through them. Lo and behold, an issue of Sports Illustrated had arrived, and it was the mid-point of the World Series issue. Boston's Mark Bellhorn is flying over top of St. Louis' Mike Matheny in Game Two on the cover, and I'll probably try to have the thing framed.

It simply happened that way. I never lifted a finger to subscribe, and this near-perfect condition magazine arrives in my mailbox the day after the victory, free of charge. How's that for strange?

On top of all that, Curt Schilling had something nice to say about the re-election of the President. This is, of course, a good thing, even if it's a complete surprise to me. (Come off it. Schilling pitched in Philadelphia, home of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Children for years were taught to pray for the Republican Party, the Girard Bank, and the PRR. Are you really surprised? --Ed.) John Kerry's team, my foot. Hopefully, Massachusetts has used up all its fall luck, and the Senator will be sent home to ponder the folly of his run.

(Meanwhile, registration is still closed at the fora of Red Sox Nation.)

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The Lopez-Lowry Axis is apparently exerting its editorial powers, because Yankee Kathy has banned Shannen Coffin from posting in The Corner for the time being.

I'd give her a Bronx cheer---if I knew what that was---but then again, it might inspire her to further acts of Boston hatred. Bah! You're not going to sell any subscriptions like that, Ms. Lopez.

UPDATE: Er, go out of the area for several hours and look what happens. Eh, heh heh...er, it's all in good fun and I'm really glad I'm underground in an undisclosed location at the moment. Wow, the power of the blogosphere.

Howdy to all visitors from The Corner; I hope there's something worth viewing here for y'all. I'm, er, in a rebuilding phase, but come on in and browse about. If anyone's got something they'd like to see or hear about, well, I've got my e-mail account operational.

Three thousand hits in less than four hours. That's only a hundred times the daily average. Lord, I hope my host's bill is paid.

UPDATE II: It has occurred to me that, since Ms. Lopez has been gracious enough to give me in four hours what took six months to get (in terms of traffic), I ought to give them something. To muddle something from W.S. Churchill about magnanimity in victory, let me suggest the following: Click here and subscribe to the print version of National Review. Ms. Lopez, once I scrape together enough money, I'll be subscribing; I seem to have spent my immediately surplus reserves of capital on the very hat that I'm wearing.

UPDATE III: Mr. Coffin posted a rather touching and heartfelt missive on the subject, and there will be no celebratory column. That's all right; it is easy even for me to understand that eighty-six years of emotions---as Chris Myers put it, "generations"---are difficult to air in a web column.

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Eighty-six years swept away. Curse? Reversed. Annihilated.

Hooray.

Thank you God.

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Methinks I detect a whiff of sour grapes emanating from the confines of the Lopez-Lowry Axis. Sayeth K-Lo at 0555: COME ON, CARDINALS!!

Yankee Kathy (c.f. "Axis Sully", although solely in jest; Axis Sully is a nuisance whereas Yankee Kathy is endearing in her support) had been silent for a while---and Lowry seems to have been out of sight since---but she comes roaring striking back, with a little swipe by way of hyperlink.

The article she was linking to is here. It's just your basic "Sox win!" with some treacly stuff about Pedro Martinez and a description of St. Louis pitcher Jeff Suppan's base-running error, which allowed the Red Sox to escape a bases loaded situation by the Cardinals. The little I've learned about baseball in the time I've been watching had me worried (albeit in a rather uninformed way) and so when Mr. Suppan made his mistake, I let out a cheer , immediately followed by a 'Thank you, God!'

At any rate, Game 4 is tonight in St. Louis, broadcast on Fox. Someone please hand Jeanne Zelasko a picture of herself back when she was doing NASCAR Winston Cup coverage in the pits, and remind her that once upon a time, she was good looking. Bloody Fox makeup crews could mess up if Helen of Troy (preferably Diane Kruger or Sienna Guillory) was their subject.

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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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Several things have been happening in the absence, which I assure you was related to various things that were beyond my control yet which required my oversight and participation.

1. Much in the manner of a small Latin American country declaring war on National Socialist Germany in late March of 1945, I actually got around to buying a Boston Red Sox hat. I had to search all over the local mall and its three sporting goods stores to find one; the options usually ranged between gas station-quality hats---no thanks---to fitted players' hats with the usual problems that entails, i.e. cutting the backing out of the front, bending the bill, having a hat that looks brand new and the like. I settled for a 100% cotton one-size-fits-all model with a pre-bent bill and pre-washed appearance, sporting a red 'B' and a small pair of red socks on a tag in the back. Come to think of it, it looks more or less like a hat that I wore throughout law school, but which is now too damaged to wear.

2. This blog is number one on Google for the search terms of "Doris Kearns Goodwin Curt Schilling". I am, of course, happy. I don't know why anyone would pair those two, but it has been done and people are searching for the phrase. On a side note, I went and got the relevant book by Hunter S. Thompson which had her picture in it. If you're following along at home. the book is Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist - The Gonzo Letters, Volume II, 1968-1976. If you're in the trade paperback version, go to ~p. 568 and look at the photos. They're from Thompson's Elko, Nevada, conference in February 1974 of "the best liberal thinkers from the staffs of the 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns of Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and George McGovern". HST managed to put Jann Wenner, the head honcho at Rolling Stone, up to the task of funding the thing, with the aim of "[hashing] (no pun intended?) out an issues agenda for America's future, which Straight Arrow would publish in book form and distribute to the nation's decision-makers."

I've forgotten how it went, but it's really irrelevant other than to note that Doris Kearns---no Goodwin yet, apparently---and Samuel L. Berger were in attendance. Anyways, yes, Ms. Kearns wasn't exactly a shining light of beautiful American womanhood then, and certainly isn't now.

3. It is fun to watch baseball, for once. I'll be doing so tonight; that could either go well or not. Too bad I haven't arranged a gig with some friends to watch this. Apparently, no one in the area cares. Might have to wander down to the local sports bar or something. ("We don't serve your kind here!" "Huh?" "Your hat. It'll have to wait outside!")

At any rate, I'm still hoping for a) a World Series victory for the Boston Red Sox and b) a victory in November by President George W. Bush in the manner of a brutal FSU-over-ACC teams in the early 1990s, so that the Democratic strategy of 'proclaim victory and litigate until it is so' won't even have a chance at viability.

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The subject of the post is, perhaps, obvious: The Boston Red Sox have triumphed again over the New York Yankees, thus forcing a seventh game for the American League Championship Series.

At first, this whole Yankees-Red Sox rivalry had the appeal of watching the People's Liberation Army fight the Red Army across the Sino-Soviet border in the 1960s. One hopes for a mutually disastrous outcome to two hated parties. I despised the City of New York for a variety of reasons, and Boston is the home base for, among others, Tip O'Neill and John Kerry.

Then, the Northeasterners at National Review managed to go and infest The Corner with their peculiar brand of Yankee triumphalism, along with a lot of other self-important tripe about how great Steinbrenner's loathsome creation was.¹ At this point, I figured that it was about time to take sides in the great debate, and I chose oddly. Despite my lack of regard for Massachusetts and its politicians---except for Henry Cabot Lodge, of course; Nixon/Lodge '60 for life, yo---I decided that I might as well choose the team that , when the going got tough, didn't just cut another check.

At any rate, I realized that this decision put me in the ranks along with the noted plagarizer, Doris Kearns Goodwin.² Politics sure make for strange bedfellows, as do the politics of a Southerner choosing sides in a cultural divide. Well, if the supporters of Islamist terror groups can march side by side with militant homosexualists against the United States and get away with it, I suppose I can get away with backing the Red Sox. Fast forward through God only knows how much time and a lot of other crap, to the present day.

Keeping score with Shannen Coffin's conservative Red Sox fans, count me as #23. It is always good to see professional sports teams from the vile City of New York be beaten.³ It was even better for the country to see boorish New Yawkers require a police presence on the field simply to keep the fans from costing their team a game. Admittedly, I don't envy being Joe Torre or anyone in the Yankees organization at that point. What do you do, walk out with a bullhorn and tell people to knock it off?

At any rate, thanks for this victory will be included as a line item in the evening/morning prayer, as will a request for continued Red Sox success. I realize that in the great Manichean struggle between good and evil, the Almighty's got better things to do than pay attention to a baseball series, but at the same time, there might be a "baseball desk" staffed by a bored heavenly bureaucrat who could be influenced by a simple and humble request.

Good luck and Godspeed, Boston.

UPDATE: M.T. Owens has weighed in with his view of the situation, thus hopefully rubbing things in the face of the Lopez-Lowry axis.

UPDATE II: It appears that someone in the National Review office is a good sport. Recently posted is a piece from Shannen Coffin about the heroics of Boston pitcher Curt Schilling. Mr. Schilling, a veteran with some fame to his credit, pitched several innings in last night's game with a dislocated tendon in his leg. Ouch! more...

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The forces of evil have been thwarted for another day! The Boston Red Sox have triumphed in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, scoring the winning run in the 14th inning. The series is now 3-2 in favor of the New York Yankees, and the series returns to the City of New York for the remaining 1 or 2 games scheduled.

Some guy named David Ortiz got what appears to have been a base hit, which allowed a fellow named Johnny Damon to score from second base.

Hooray.

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