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When last I visited with you in this electronic space to chat about our Red Sox, they had just dispatched the Cardinals in summary fashion and had claimed the world championship that had eluded them for 86 years. I had just come off a second straight year chasing a hyper-harrowing seven-game ALCS against the Yankees, witnessing the wild shifts of fate from the cheap seats (well, not so cheap). And then, with the World Series win-with blessed deliverance-I was feeling pretty euphoric about all things Bosox. When friends would inevitably ask, "Aren't you going...
...Little did I realize just how thoroughly life would, in fact, change for us lifelong Red Sox fans. We were newly fashionable, for one thing-people wrote books about us, people made movies about us, people wanted to talk to us. We had lots and lots of brand new friends. I learned, not long after Doug Mientkiewicz caught the toss from Keith Foulke to finish off the Cards-a ball that Doug would spend much of the off-season trying to keep as his own, a ball now in the possession of the Red Sox (and Doug is, via trade...
...It’s an absolute dream come true [to be drafted by the Red Sox],” he said...
...former talk about sports and Harvard was once how our graduates were invading Major League Baseball, led by Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta ‘95, Red Sox Director of Player Operations Peter Woodfork ‘99, A’s Assistant GM (and Billy Beane’s right-hand man) David Forst ‘98, and recently-promoted Marlins VP and Assistant GM Mike Hill...
...used to be hard to be cynical. Just a few weeks ago, I was enthralled by the NCAA Tournament, what with lovable, thefacebook-able players like Kevin Pittsnogle taking center stage. Major League Baseball, fantasy baseball, and Yankees-Red Sox were also all on the verge of detonation, meaning I would soon trade insults with various students I’d never met. Harvard’s acceptance rate even dropped to an all-time low. Certainly, such are the things that life is made...