Really enjoyed Snow's piece in the Globe today. Didn't bear witness to the game except for a few checks on the Global InterWeb.
Here's my favorite part:
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Scene: Sixth inning, Red Sox leading, 3-0, Doug Mirabelli on third, Wakefield on first, Johnny Damon at the plate. Damon hits a ball to the left-center field gap. Mirabelli scores with ease. Wakefield, motoring, touches second and catches sight of third base coach Dale Sveum's right arm, which, of course, was whirling.
''He was a position player," noted Sveum, alluding to Wakefield's status as the corner infielder the Pittsburgh Pirates used an eighth-round pick to select 17 years ago. ''There were two outs. The outfielder bobbled the ball. We need every run we can get. We had to take a chance."
Wakefield ''made a really nice turn," Sveum noticed, and headed for home, three words running through the 38-year-old's head: ''Oh my God." Sure enough, he slipped under the tag of catcher Michael Barrett, lifting the Sox to a 5-0 lead.
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Chris Snow in the Glob
Looks like we picked up a game on the Birds and the MFY still trail the Sox by 3.
I was watching "Barry Lyndon", which, by the way, is a lush and beautifully shot film, however, it suffers _the_ most of Kubrick's films RE: pacing.