I know how you feel. Life would be so much better without all this political sewage.

Well, Mark, it is a glimmer of Hope, but you know they'll break our hearts later this month.

Nevertheless, go Red Sawx! Bawstun Rawks!

ya, i've climbed back onto the danged bandwagon.

...but i've got my kneepads and helmet on.

plus, i'm not really sure the heartbreak of last year can be 'improved' upon, if ya know what i mean.

With the Indians among the streakiest teams of all time this year, it hs made it easy to ignore them for a week or more at a time, then get back into it when they snap back into win mode.

Unless they make some really stupid moves or are incredibly unlucky, next year they should be genuine contenders.

I'm glad to see the Sox challenge the Yankees, but the only reason they aren't as evil as the Antichrists is that they haven't won the World Series since the Ottoman Empire

Dream on.

Do you know the difference between Fenway Franks and the hot dogs they serve in Yankee Stadium?

They serve the latter in October.

oooh, clever.

here's a yankee joke: the combined ERA of the starting pitching staff!!