another thing I did last night was watch the 2004 Red Sox take the field against the Minnesota Twins for their first Spring Training game. With Derek Lowe on the mound, Boston bested the Twins 5-3, an auspicious end to a rollercoaster off-season that at long last landed us another ace hurler - one Curt Schilling, who is already trying on his best Boston accent for a local Dunkin' Donuts commercial - but almost lost us superstar shortstop Nomar Garciaparra in a poorly-conceived and callously-executed attempt to replace him with... another superstar shortstop (duh!).
Well good riddance to Winter! I'm ready for another year of heartbreak and loss, and so is the rest of Red Sox Nation, for whom the early-February Super Bowl Parade of a million-plus is now a memory more distant than the trading away of the Bambino back in 1918. After all, football is just a sport; baseball, however, is our religion.
Speaking of the weird intersection of Fenway and faith, Edward Cossette - the most excellent author of Bambino's Curse, a blog devoted to all things BoSox - is abstaining from Boston media sports coverage for Lent. Without being able to fall back on metapunditry (the blogger's time-honored crutch), Ed is exploring some rather strange and wonderful territory, such as looking for the Golden Section in the mathematics of baseball. Check it out!
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