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...dilemma. As I loitered in the Dunster House Common Room for the final innings of game four, surrounded by a squawking throng of simian Red Sox fans, I couldn’t decide whether I should root for a Colorado comeback, out of my usual Schadenfreude for Boston sports, or rather bite my lip and hope for a quick Sox victory so as to get the whole damn thing over with. I was leaning towards the latter; the exquisite masochism of Boston sports fans, born out of centuries of Irish-Catholic resentment and sexual privation was getting tedious; and besides...
...Then my friend made the mistake—a cardinal sin really—of revealing a dispassionate aesthetic appreciation for the game of baseball, complimenting a Colorado Rockies’ hitter with a pretty innocuous observation: “Good eye, there.” Of course, this elicited a cacophony of jeers and a Manichaean, even Bush-like inquisition to determine if he was in fact “with us or against...
...bewildering moment, I forgot that I attend a cosmopolitan university, whose diverse student body hails from all over the world, even regions where baseball is virtually unknown; and even, perhaps, Colorado. At that point, my rancor swerved towards the poseurs and bandwaggoners in their borrowed Red Sox raiment, hungry voyeurs for the already vicarious pleasure of sports fandom...
Shortly after Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon delivered his signature slider to strike out Seth Smith of the Colorado Rockies for the final out of the World Series last night, Harvard’s Red Sox faithful poured out of every crevice of the campus to join in on the festivities happening in the Square. With the Harvard Band leading the way, Sox fans cheered their second World Series title in four years, proudly chanting the names of their icons and providing perhaps the loudest rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline?...
...story in USA Today first detailed the Christian imprint on the Rockies, whose 21-1 run on the way to the World Series brought a historic high to Colorado. "I don't want to offend anyone," Rockies chairman and CEO Charlie Monfort said at the time, "but I think character-wise we're stronger than anyone in baseball. Christians, and what they've endured, are some of the strongest people in baseball. I believe God sends signs; we're seeing those...