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...experience that will make their lives complete. Others, especially in the early semesters of college life, simply wish to confirm that picking a concentration in Microbiology over History of Art was not a life-destroying mistake. The result is that everyone shops classes as if in four weeks we wont all be bemoaning our fate. In the process, we get a glimpse of everything that goes on behind closed doors on this campus the rest of the year...
...Ancient Red Sox Diehard Sufferers of New York. Among us Sox fans-among you, if you?re with us now that we?re World Champs-the BLOHARDS are, today, something bordering on semi-famous. ESPN found out about us in early ?04, and FOX followed, as FOX is wont to do. We got better known throughout the season, and Jim Shea, a diligent BLOHARDS exec, now tells me the membership roll is climbing up to some crazy number like two thousand. Front-runners are certainly among our rookies, but, hey, what the hell. They pay their dues, they?re fine...
...among you, if you?re with us now that we?re World Champs-the Benevolent Loyal Order of Honorable and Ancient Red Sox Diehard Sufferers of New York are, today, something bordering on semi-famous. ESPN found out about us in early ?04, and FOX followed, as FOX is wont to do. We got better known throughout the season, and Jim Shea, a diligent BLOHARDS exec, now tells me the membership roll is climbing up to some crazy number like two thousand. Front-runners are certainly among our rookies, but, hey, what the hell. They pay their dues, they...
...comment indicates, Berry was wont to zing. His slide shows were raucous, ribald, sometimes even risqu?, and seldom were they kindhearted. If they were hilarious to some, they weren?t to all. Young Roger Clemens, a rook, seemed bewildered by the BLOHARDS when he was a guest at the first club lunch I attended. And, memorably, Butch Hobson, when he was manager, threatened to take us on en masse during his remarks after Berry had tweaked Hobson?s third-base coach, the immortal Zimmer, in commentary during the slide show. Hobson really was fuming. It was a tense moment...
Next fall, for the first time in 18 or so years, I wont be heading to school. I wont buy notebooks or sourcebooks; I will not buy or sharpen a fistful of number two pencils. I will not, come September, plan an outfit to wear on the first day of school. And so a pattern that has been varied and repeated with the pleasant regularity of Dickens novels through most of my life will be broken. I am not scared so much as I am bemused. I do not have a template for whatever will happen next...