A Cry for Help

If you’ve been missing that hardy New England sports cynicism in the wake of the Red Sox World Championship ( ! ), here’s something that should warm your pessimist’s heart: the Pats’ historic win streak is no more. The Pittsburgh Steelers put an end to this glorious run at 21.
Go figure, the Sox, who never [...]

Flipping through the public access section of the cable lineup last night, Em stopped on some sort of RIC student forum thingy, run by two students, talking with a crowd of students. They were discussing the election (poorly) and one young woman in the crowd asked a question that I thought I misheard. I thought [...]

…the Superbowl!!
The outcome of the last Washington Redskins game before an election has correctly predicted the outcome of the presidential race every time since football came to the capital city, going all the way back to 1936. If the ’skins win, the incumbent party wins. Well, Green Bay put Washington away this afternoon, presaging an [...]

The Providence Journal editorial board lays further waste to its long tradition of Yankee Republicanism by endorsing George W Bush for president again. As they say, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Of course, the man they prefer to lead our nation can’t quite get a handle on that [...]

Osama bin Laden, not dead despite the president’s assertion that we’d get him, dead or alive, released a new tape recently to laugh in our collective faces. Amazingly enough, the mastermind behind the murder of 3,000 Americans in the worst attack in this country’s history, is not only alive and well, he’s got time to [...]

It’s Halloween again!! Longtime readers may remember last year when Em and I couldn’t find a pumpkin to carve anywhere so we settled for a small cantaloupe that grew out of the compost pile (the archived post got eaten a while back. Pics one and two). This year we planned ahead and took a ride [...]

Putting a momentary dent in the beauty and wonder that is the first morning of the Red Sox World Championship Era, Curt Schilling this morning wrapped up an interview on some morning show with this: “Remember to vote on November 2nd, and vote Bush.”
I’m disappointed, but not surprised. This is a guy who believes God [...]

1918
There are tears in my eyes. I’ll never forget this moment.
THEY DID IT! THEY REALLY DID IT!

This past May, as the first stop on our Great Midwestern Baseball Trip™, Em and I were in St. Louis. Unfortunately we got rained out, and since we had tickets to a game in Cincinnati the next night we couldn’t see any Cardinals games. Of course, as we walked around Busch Stadium we had no [...]

There’s lots of endorsements flying around out there. Some are surprising, some not so much. Very much in the latter category, here’s the editorial position of this group blog: John Kerry for President.
I do want to add, though, that I’m not in the camp of those who don’t like Kerry but really don’t like Bush. [...]

I woke up this morning and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. The paper told me that the Boston Red Sox were 27 outs away from snuffing out four generations of futility. Now, I watched last night’s game. I saw Pedro dominate. I cheered Manny’s bomb. I nearly blew beer out my nose watching [...]

My entire world is in a cloud of disbelief. After all this waiting, the Sox are in the World Series? After over a year’s worth of closely following the presidential election, there’s only seven days til we know who wins (I hope. Please.) Since I did it for the playoffs, I figure I should make [...]