The Word Series starts today.
In 1986 I was a security officer at the Boston Center for Adult Education on commonwealth Avenue in Back Bay. I watched the 6th game on a 2 inch Sony Watchman and several men gathered about. We watched in horror as Mr. Buckner fumbled the ball and that led to the Soxs loosing the game. The 7th game was a loss from the get go. The Mets had their victory but it was hollow since every one knew the Red Soxs had choked and never came back.
I recall in 1978 when the Sox had a one game playoff with the Yankees and lost it, and then there's 1975!
Well this is the year the Red Sox will decide their future. An entire generation watches, needing to believe that finally this team is worth the devotion.
Think! Men lived entire lives eighty plus years and how often did the Red Sox reach the Series only to fold! A lifetime of false hope and bitter despair.
If they win, the ugliness of the Bussing Era and decades of rage will at last fade into the mists.
Boston needs this moment.
New England has retreated from the worlds stage. New York is America's place of leadership and creative forces. Boston, so glamorous in a strange haunting way, deserves it's moment to glory.
How odd that so much depends on a simple game. But it does!
Greatness is never a near miss.
I do hope the Sox put up a splendid battle and defeat the Cards in a good way and give Bean Town a long over due night of glory and a season in the sun, old men weeping with joy, that at long last the dark has been defeated, if only for a single year.
Go Sox!
David.

The third presidential debate is this evening. GW Bush must show he understands the publics concern over the economy and other domestic issues. He is increasingly perceived as obsessed with the war in Iraq.
Kerry must find the right words to show a connection with ordinary folk. He must give all of us a true satisfaction in choosing him and that we won't regret it. People dread another Jimmy Carter and they fear Kerry is too verbose and not decisive. Perceptions rule!
Not since 1960 has the election been decided at the last minute and not since 1980 has an incumbent been so disliked by so many.

Chris Reeve was a decent actor and a better gentleman. He gave a face to an often neglected community. America dislikes seeing wounded folk. Reeve allowed us to consider the unbearable and start to do something about it. Now he is dead and we will so forget him and the community he represented. The GOP will not sacrifice it's religious base to placate the paralyzed. Republicans in general loathe helping anyone who is flawed, social Darwinism still percolates within the GOP's heart.

Yesterday, in a distant place Janet Leigh came up behind Alfred Hitchcock, who was reading the Wall Street Journal Celestial edition, and screamed repeatedly: "You ruined my career!"
Hitch, grinned, told her: "You are still the master screamer! Good girl!"
At that moment Fay Waye started screaming and God asked Jesus "Why? Why must they scream?"
Jesus replied: "Americans!"
Mark Twain came by, cigar in hand and observed. "Loud noise, ah such sweet pleasure!"
God leaned over to Jesus: "And he never believed in me?"

David 10/13/04

The debates have been great fun, but not very informative. The Bush Team has a succession of bad news reports on the war, the economy, and the fate of oil prices soaring. Evidence shows that Kerry has little substance to offer because he has spent such a amount of time fending off emotional attacks and trying to define himself. Nevertheless, Kerry has succeeded in surving the Rove attack plan because of an increasing public weariness of Mr. Bush and the war.
We may be seeing a repeat of 1980 where the public became fed up with Mr. Carter and saw in Mr. Reagan a stable figure and a less emotional mindset. Reagan had a much better voice, deeper and full of sincere affection. Carter was shrill and oftentimes too verbose.
Mr. Bush is energetic but shrill. He has to respond to everything Kerry says.
The election will be decided on the last day as millions ask themselves just what they want.
My hunch is that the country is going to opt for change, saying that four years of all this tension and rant is enough.
David 10/10/04