If form holds, the Red Sox’ gaudy, well-earned rings will be handed out in a ceremony April 11 when the 2004 World Series championship flag is raised above Fenway Park for the home opener.
The team in the third base dugout for that historic event? The New York Yankees.
Sweet.
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with champagne, and peanut butter.
Here’s another bogus World Series statistic, from no less than Sky and Telescope:
What’s more, in a conjunction of events never before seen in history, this eclipse happens during Game 4 of the World Series. The World Series Lunar Eclipse should be visible to fans with good sight lines from Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis, and we can hope that TV crews periodically aim up to show the progress of the event — if the sky is not too cloudy! Millions of watchers could be inspired to duck outside for a look between innings. (P.S.: Go Sox!)
(Nice plug, though.)
Now, I don’t believe that this statistic is meaningful, but I do believe that this is a portentious astrological event.
Prepare for humiliation. It shall be upon you at the designated hour.
Google just bought a company called Keyhole which seems to be doing really interesting stuff. John Battelle has an interview with the CEO.
In preparation for tonight… an oldie from The Onion (reprinted here). Prepare for humiliation. It shall be upon you at the designated hour.
According to the Dirt Dogs, looks like it was a Pirates hat!
Curt can you explain to the folks your Pittsburgh sports history ties for the panicky Nation? And were you a Willie Stargell or Dave Parker guy?
CS: “My father was born and raised in Somerset, Pa. I was raised a Steeler and Pirate fan. My first and only ML game as a fan was Clemente’s last game in 1971. Definitely a Stargell guy.”
Ditto on Willie Stargell!
One more game to go! Der Soxenhoffers just won 4-1!
From Slate:
Want to know something funny about Taxachusetts? For every dollar it pays Uncle Sam in taxes, it receives only 79 cents back in federal services and subsidies. That ranks it 44th among the 50 states in federal expenditures per dollar of taxes. Indeed, there’s a very strong correlation between liberal, pro-government “blue states” and states that are least dependent on federal spending. There’s also a strong correlation between conservative, anti-government “red states” and states that are most dependent on federal spending. (Click here for details.) If you think of Red America as stubbornly self-reliant and Blue America as a drain on the Treasury, you’ve got it exactly backward.
The author also says “I don’t begrudge the South and the West their many military bases and national parks…” Maybe we don’t have any military installations on a huge scale, but we do have Hanscom Air Force Base, and numerous defense contractors, a club that iRobot of Roomba fame just joined. And MIT’s nickname could be “The House that DARPA Built” (MIT’s financials here; note that big 26.7% of revenue coming from Lincoln Labs, for starters).
