Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOYALTY. It's a fine virtue. But loyalty to an obstinate loser crosses that fine line into stupidity, and there's no bigger loser than Don Zimmer, this gourmand wedging his cetaceous bulk into the helmsman's chair and running the Red Sox aground. Remember Ed Brooke? He endorsed Zimmer...
...Sox have the best hitting team in all of baseball. The Red Sox are also in third place in the American League East, 12 1/2 games behind Baltimore and eliminated from this year's pennant race. Admittedly, the pitching is weaker than some, due in part to the refusal of the owners to buy arms and in part to the exile, at Zimmer's insistence, of Bill Lee, who now stands out among the high-powered hurlers of Montreal. Frustration is not pleasant. Someone's head must roll, and Zimmer's, one might surmise, would roll quite nicely...
...also thinking about my sins, asking forgiveness for going to the Hong Kong twice a week, for buying LaCoste shirts, for taking Nat Sci 150, and for harboring evil thoughts about the Red Sox. But it's not all that bad. I've resisted the temptation to make fun of pre-meds, I've lived through three years at Harvard without starching my collars or buying tortoise-shell glasses, and I've avoided taking "Boats" or "Gas Stations...
...year's election results and probably one new ordinance will not end this battle over condos. Like the yearly duels between the Red Sox and the Yankees, there will be a series of small victories and defeats, never totally won, and never ultimately lost...
...Sox captain Carl Yazstrsemski banged a single up the middle last night, the 3000th hit of his major league career...