Alvey :

New England mortality rate to soar

2144 days ago

It seems a lot of older people in Boston and the rest of the Red Sox Nation have been hanging around waiting for a World Series win.
"We know people who are 90 years old who have just said: 'Just one championship before I die,'" Red Sox chairman Tom Werner said.

It reminds me of a sci-fi story, might have even been Stephen King, where this kid has to rush home every night to read his grandfather a book. What he reads is the end of one book and then the beginning of another one. That way the grandfather stays alive another day to find out how the latest story ends and it turns out that the grandfather is something like 150 years old.

In related news, our own "Red" didn't make it to see game four. 15 years ago he and his sister Annie left the Boca Raton Animal Shelter and have lived with my sister in Florida, New York, Indiana and now Canada. He was a great cat and the only one of their pets that really accepted their new baby daughter.

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Niki Alvey 2143 days ago

What are Sox fans going to whine about now...

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=sportsNews&storyID=6650858

"Charles Goodstein, professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, said Sox fans had "wallowed in their misery" for generations and may find the euphoria of their four-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals a jolt to their identity."

"How difficult it is once you've lived the life of a masochist to suddenly find there is no one there to whip you any more."

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