To show you how sick this double addiction can get, lately Now, the Dowbrigade is, as regular readers have no doubt In fact, the identity of the next President will determine So lets keep things in perspective. True, we spend a lot Boston breeds a special sort of media junkie, hopelessly hooked on the minutiae of American political discourse, and usually Democratic, while simultaneously obsessed with the other Great American pastime, baseball. They unfortunately suffer under the weight of baseball’s Sisyphusian boulder … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/soxv.jpg\")
Boston
\n breeds a special sort of media junkie,
\n hopelessly hooked on the minutiae of American political discourse, and
\n usually Democratic, while simultaneously obsessed with the other Great
\n American pastime, baseball. They unfortunately suffer under the weight
\n of baseball’s Sisyphusian boulder – they are Red
\n Sox fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n the Big Question dogging the sports radio talk shows is the following:
\n If God appeared in your back yard and offered you ONE miracle – either
\n John Kerry would win the US Presidency, or the Red Sox would win the
\n World Series – which would you choose.<\/p>\n
\n noted, a gung-ho booster of the Beantown nine, but lets get a grip on
\n reality here. Baseball is a GAME, folks. Presidential politics
\n is REAL LIFE, although at times it seems more fixed and choreographed than
\n World Wide Wrestling. The outcome of the Presidential elections will have
\n a direct effect on how each of us survives, or doesn’t survive, the next
\n four years.<\/p>\n
\n how many die, and which ones, in many spots around the world. As far as we are concerned, the World Series
\n or for that matter the entirety of professional sports, is less important
\n than the continued existence of any one human life, let alone the thousands
\n or maybe millions of lives whose futures will be determined on November
\n 5th. Call us a bleeding heart Sissy, but that’s the way we were brought up.<\/p>\n
\n more time watching baseball games than Presidential debates. And also true,
\n the New York Yankees are even further on the Dark Side than the mad-dog
\n Bush neo-cons. But if we cannot have the World Champion Boston Red Sox
\n as guests of honor at a Kerry Inauguration in January, for the ball club
\n and its fans there is always next time. For millions of people both
\n in the US and around the globe, we are not so sure that is true.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"