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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
The line to leap off the Tobin Bridge has formed at the right at the Red Sox Royal Rooters forum.
The inclination is to reflect once again on the cosmic karma of the Pilgrims and the character-building opportunity they present for offering-it-up (particularly when Fox is carrying the play-by-play). If the Yanks lead in pennants, the Sox do in penance.
At the Bambino's Curse blog, quotes from Thucydides have given way to Quentin Tarantino.
I'm a bit bedraggled today for extended literary allusions regarding the Bostons. Coming to mind instead are Bugs Bunny -- "Agony, agony" -- and Jethro's line in the Beverly Hillbillies when he's become a beatnik artist: "Have you done your sufferin' for the day?"
And so, to the Sox, as they return home to Fenway two games in the hole, sound fightin' words from Granny Clampett, particularly apropos during the current campaign season:
Granny: Remember what William Jennings Bryan said, fight hard but fight clean.
Jethro: But you ain't fightin' clean Granny.
Granny: Course I ain't! William Jennings Bryan was a loser!
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