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...attendance at Yankee Stadium to watch the Red Sox take on the Bronx Bombers in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series. My younger brother and I sat there in the eighth inning amidst a sea of mortal enemies and started going nuts as Sox slugger David Ortiz launched a home run into the Bronx night to put the Sox up 5-2 with two innings left. It was one of the greatest moments—if not the pinnacle—of my sports-watching life; we exchanged hugs with the two Sox fans sitting behind...
...back in the ninth to tie the score as Mickelson began to make a late charge on the back nine—tying Els at -8 with two holes left to play. As if we were in some kind of a parallel universe, both games mirrored each other; David Ortiz just missed a home run to end it in the ninth inning as Mickelson just missed a number of birdie opportunities early in the round. Then in the bottom of the 12th, Ortiz stepped to the plate and crushed one over the Wall in left field and into...
...faltered a little bit early this year, like Mickelson, they’ll make a late charge and finish with a similar improbable win in the seventh game of the World Series. The Sox stacked rotation of Martinez, Schilling, and Lowe bring the Sox to the brink, and Ortiz will mirror Mickelson’s late heroics with another Green Monster shot in the end. Everyone thought that Mickelson would never win the big one, and everyone thinks the Sox won’t be able to this year because of injuries, contract squabbles, or whatever else. But you heard...
Ramirez, Garciaparra, Ortiz, Nixon, and Varitek. The heart of the order for the Boston Red Sox reads like a list of Home Run Derby contestants. Similarly, Lance Salsgiver, Zak Farkes, Trey Hendricks, Schuyler Mann, and Josh Klimkiewicz anchor a 2004 Harvard lineup that will attempt to bash its way to the top of the Ivies...
Sometimes the best investing advice is to do nothing. Says Theodore Aronson, a fund manager at Aronson+Johnson+Ortiz in Philadelphia: "We elect to ignore the election cycle." Instead of trying to predict what the next President will do to the market, just make sure you have a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds...