Boston Wins The World Series!! The Planets Are Aligning!!

For the first time in 86 years, the Boston Red Sox have won the World Series, ending the most famous slump in baseball and the most famous "curse" in all of sports. People have been born and suffered and died without seeing Boston win the World Series and it happens in the year when John Kerry is running for President? That's as good a portent as you could hope for. And since John Kerry moved from nailing Bush's incompetence to a message of hope this week, we should too. Everyone is thoroughly freaked out by the polls and won't take anything for granted. So I don't think it's damgerous to express my hope that JOHN KERRY IS GOING TO WIN!!

Two good baseball signs: I was in Yankee Stadium when the flag-waving, military-cheering blue collar Yankee fans BOOED Dick Cheney's scowling face when it appeared on the video screens during a regular season game. Sweet.

Finally, I'm a die-hard Yankee fan with season tickets in the bleachers who happily chants 1918 (the last time Boston won it all) at the drop of a hat. But when my Bush-voting friend asked me during game one of the Yankees v Boston playoffs if having John Kerry be President would mean having Boston beat the Yankees and win the World Series, what would I choose? I said without hesitating that I would choose the future of my country over the Yankees. And he taunted and teased me for not being a real fan.

But I know what's truly important. Thank God Boston won the World Series and thank God John Kerry will win the election if we all go out and vote and drag our friends with us. (But next season it's back to booing Boston. Go Yankees!)