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Boston Red Sox vs. Cleveland Indians...
...with remarkably few expectations that one could attend Sunday's much-heralded performance. The crowd packed on the Boston Common resembled the crowd that assembles each year for the Boston Pops' Fourth of July performance at the Hatch Shell or a Red Sox game. One hundred thousand people in shorts and T-shirts stood on walkways or sprawled on lawn chairs and beach towels in the uncommonly hot and humid weather. One might have expected to see Nine Inch Nails perform on the gargantuan stage instead of the Boston Symphony...
Rabid baseball fans have been especially prominent these last few days. With Boston's star-crossed franchise, the Red Sox, making its periodic (and usually pathetic) foray into the postseason, Mass. natives and those who have adopted the BoSox during their tenure in Cambridge gather in the T.V. room at Loker. Those in classes letting out at one had just enough time to select their 5 items, swipe their card, grab their condiments and moist towelette, and dash to the television in time for the 1:07 p.m. first pitch. Had the line been any less efficient, fans might have...
Presumably, the Red Sox will fall short of the World Series as they have seemingly done for millennia. Will service be speedy enough when a vintage edition of Home Run Derby (e.g., Harmon Killebrew vs. Frank Robinson) is on ESPN instead of playoff baseball? Will Home Run Derby devotees (my roommate among them) be able to cope, knowing that Fly-By will not be fast enough for them to hear the habitual recounting of the rules at the very start of the broadcast. All we can do is hope that the Red Sox go all the way and delay consideration...
Groups members emphasize that the fraternity's social life does not revolve around house parties and alcohol, pointing to trips into Boston to see the Red Sox or shoot pool, road trips, an annual formal and mixers with local sororities as examples of their varied social itinerary...