And so one year after they jousted to After a winter of cutthroat backroom moves by both front offices, 162 and also by Brian McGrory:<\/a><\/p>\n Novelist John Cheever once famously said, ”All literary Just when we are most confident, as we were in the late <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some superior sportswriting this morning in the Globe, about the upcoming baseball jihad between Boston and New York. Please, can this be happening again? We haven’t gotten over last year yet…First, by Dan Shaughnessey: And so one year after they jousted … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/mannypedro.jpg\")
Some superior sportswriting this morning
\n in the Globe, about the upcoming baseball jihad between Boston and New
\n York. Please, can this be happening again? We haven’t gotten over last
\n year<\/a> yet…First, by Dan
\n Shaughnessey:<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n
\n the (Sox’s) finish in the Bronx last
\n October
\n —
\n in an
\n epic
\n seventh
\n game<\/a> that
\n appeared to take the clash to its zenith — they go at it again tonight
\n on the same hallowed soil that has haunted the Red Sox and their desperate
\n fans for so many years.<\/p>\n
\n regular-season games (including 19 vs. each other, which inspired two
\n bench-clearing incidents),
\n and first-round victories in their respective Division Series, the Sox
\n and Yankees tonight play the first game in the best-of-seven American
\n League Championship Series for the right to represent the AL in the
\n World Series.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n men are Red Sox fans," and the series that begins tonight at
\n Yankee Stadium is yet another reason why. It’s almost too perfect,
\n this rematch
\n of last year’s magical but disastrous showdown, mystically predetermined
\n in its makeup, exquisitely undetermined in its likely outcome. Literary
\n men may be Red Sox fans, but the literature they write is rarely
\n as compelling as the story line of this team.<\/p>\n
\n innings of Game 7 last year, is the point at which they let us down.To
\n be a lifelong Red Sox fan is to accept this fate to its godless core,
\n then to cheer in groundless optimism.But now there’s something different
\n at play: redemption. We have been given that rare gift of another bite
\n at the apple, a true second chance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n