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\n Ten o’clock at night, and the Dowbrigade is finally sitting
\n down at his computer, following an exhausting 12 hour day
\nchauffeuring around our younger son, first to a job interview in Quincy and then
\n helping him move into a new place in North Cambridge. We have the Red
\n Sox on the desk-side tube, but they are behind, 4-1, and we are paying
\n it scant attention.<\/p>\n
However, it does remind us of a silly argument we heard on the car radio
\n while waiting for our son to load, or unload. The gang of knuckleheads
\n at WEEI were livid with theatrical outrage at an oil painting prominently
\n featured in the dining room of Red Sox outfielder and Jesus Christ lookalike
\n Johnny Damon’s dining room, as seen on the popular cable cult classic
\n "Celebrity Cribs" last night. <\/p>\n
Said painting at first glance appears to be a reproduction of Da Vinci’s
\n Last Supper. Appropriate enough, seeing as Passover is almost upon
\n us and the actual Last Supper was supposed to have been a Seder, and
\n by its placement in the dining room, a common affectation in religious
\n low-rent Latin households. Except that, on closer inspection, Jesus Christ
\n IS – how
\n did you guess,
\n Johnny
\n Damon!
\n – and
\n the disciples,
\n all
\n in Red
\n Sox
\n caps, include Terry Francona, Pedro Martinez and Jason Varitek. <\/p>\n
Is this sacrilegious? In poor taste? Outrageously funny? Disrespectful
\n of the new Pope? A sly reference to blockbuster bestseller The Da vinci
\n Code? Did the players sign off on this project? The team? How could they put the name of the team in the URL otherwise? Is Damon the most popular guy on the world champions? Is he
\n the most conceited player in baseball? The topic really had the airwaves
\n heating up. <\/p>\n
Personally, our taste in dining room art runs more towards the full-color,
\n life-sized realistic portraits by our buddy El Ciego in Lima of some of
\n the fighting cocks he has known and loved, painted from memory after
\n that tragic night in the henhouse when he passed out and hit his head
\n on a feeding chute on the way down, ending up unconscious with his head buried in
\n a pile of grain.<\/p>\n
But we digress. On the Trinitron Boston-Tampa Bay has actually
\n turned into a pretty interesting game; after being behind 4-1 in the
\n 8th the Sox have clawed their way back, tying the score in the top of
\n the 9th. Opps! The game just ended after
\n ONE
\n pitch
\n from
\n Alan Embry in
\n the
\n bottom of the
\n ninth,
\n as Tampa Bay 1st baseman Eduardo Perez
\n rocketed
\n a
\n moonshot
\n into
\n the
\n thick
\n south
\n Florida
\n night.
\nOh well, that’s baseball…..<\/p>\n
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