{"id":2667,"date":"2004-10-24T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2004-10-24T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/10\/24\/a-sense-of-sartorial-decorum\/"},"modified":"2004-10-24T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2004-10-24T05:09:09","slug":"a-sense-of-sartorial-decorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/10\/24\/a-sense-of-sartorial-decorum\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sense of Sartorial Decorum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Watching
\n the Red Sox in the World Series is completely different than watching
\n them clutched in a Death Struggle with the New York Yankees.  Much
\n easier to relax and enjoy the action, even when the Sox blow a FIVE RUN
\n lead in the 6th inning. Sure, it’s dramatic, but it doesn’t have us reaching
\n for the antacids and nerve medicine.<\/p>\n

On the notorious WEEI this afternoon we heard the crew
\n discussing why the win over New York was so big, when we hadn’t really
\n broken the curse and wouldn’t until we won the World Series. Obviously,
\n the win over New York was so big because it happened THIS YEAR, just
\n one year after what happened LAST year.<\/p>\n

What happened last year was SO traumatic, so soul-shredding
\n and debilitating that neither the team nor their fans even started to
\n recover until the midpoint of the season. Nerves were shattered and emotional
\n accounts bankrupt to a degree unprecedented in our history as a sports
\n fan. If the Yankee series had happened a few years ago, or five years
\n from now, it would have been a spectacular comeback, but not nearly the
\n cathartic redemption it was this year.<\/p>\n

But one thing we really would like to know, is What’s Up
\n with the Red Sox Batting Helmets? Note, in the first photo, the helmet
\n of Dave Roberts, who seems to be the lone Sox with a sense of sartorial
\n decorum.  This is what a major league batting helmet is supposed
\n to look like.  Look how clearly you can see the scarlet letter.
\n We are sure Roberts is always impeccably dressed off the field as well.<\/p>\n

Now look at the following photos of the batting helmets of the rest of
\n these clowns.  On the at-bat closeups on the national Fox broadcasts,
\n you can see these helmets looking absolutely filthy, like they had been
\n smeared with axle grease or crusty slime.  What is that evil-looking
\n shit? The bright red "B" is completely covered.  And then
\n they rub their hand in it before gripping the bat! Is it pine tar? What
\n the hell is pine tar anyway.  Doesn’t the world series have a dress
\n code?<\/p>\n\n\n
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photos
\n from MLB<\/a><\/p>\n

Game 1: RedSox 11, Cardinals 9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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