The Rock

Wonderful time being had across New England right now. Sysiphus has put the rock at the top of the hill, Tantalus has gotten something to drink. The Red Sox have won. While I admit the series itself was a bit anti-climactic following the Yankee series. 86 years of ghosts and frustrations will take it any way they can get it. If this is a vindication of anyone, its Bill James, because this team, more than any other with the exception of the A's, was put together with Sabermetrics in mind. Guys like Kevin Millar and David Ortiz were cheap, but Boston knew that if they wanted to put together the Sabermetrically perfect team, those would be two guys who could make it happen.

Now everyone's full attention has to turn to another sporting event, well two. One, we all have to root hard for the Packers on Sunday, even though I know a couple people who read this may be doing so anyway. I say this because everytime the Redskins have lost a game before an election, and this goes back almost 70 years, the incumbent party loses. (It also should be pointed out that the last two times the Red Sox won a World Series in an election year, the Democrat won, but the Democrat was Woodrow Wilson). The other is of course, the final race to the pole in the presidential race. Given the topic of discussion this week, and the reporting done by a Minneapolis TV station that you may see being nationally broadcast today, the reports from Iraq and about the missing explosives do not bode well for Bush. This puts him on the defensive in the last week, which I am sure is something he and Karl Rove didn't want to be doing. Meanwhile Kerry's appearing in front of one of the largest crowds in the history of the state of Wisconsin with Bruce Springsteen, just outside Miss Laura Kraly's back window. In addition, you have Rudy Giuliani going off script and, while appearing on behalf of the President, saying “No matter how you try to blame it on the president, the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?” Bush has spent the last 18 hours saying that Kerry was questioning the Troops, which he wasn't, and then his own surrogate goes on the Today show and actually does blame the troops.
Its going to be a fun, and nerve racking, 5 days.