That Sox
Posted on September 27th, 2011 in Uncategorized | 10 Comments »
Well, they’ve done it: The Red Sox have sufficiently choked to the point where they are now tied with the Tampa Bay Rays for the wild card playoff spot.
I won’t lie: This is heaven.
A reporter for the New York Times alleges that “Yankee fans feel sympathy, for once, for their Red Sox brethren.”
This is a baldfaced lie.
I’m sorry, Sox fans. But we don’t feel sympathy. Just like you wouldn’t feel sympathy for Yankee fans if the Yanks blew the biggest September lead in the history of baseball. (Not that the Yankees would actually do that.) We are enjoying this immensely. This—defeatist, demoralized, degraded, debased—this is the Sox of old. Not those upstarts of 2004 and 2007—that wasn’t Sox reality. But a team that breaks the hearts of its fans in ways that leave permanent bruises? That’s the kind of Red Sox team that a true fan can appreciate.
Think of it as getting in touch with your history….
The Yankees have two more games against the Rays which you desperately need us to win. Go ahead—beg. Maybe we’ll win ’em. Maybe we won’t!
My own hope is that Joe Girardi gives his division-winning starters plenty of rest. They’ve earned it. Heck, try out some rookies! See what they’re capable of.
Remember: You’ve still got the Patriots….
10 Responses
9/27/2011 5:57 am
Bedard starts tonight. Beginning of the comeback.
9/27/2011 9:14 am
Gloat … I would if the shoe was on the other foot.
I doubt the Sox will end up ahead of the Rays and even if they do perform some two game turn around miracle their pitching is a wreck.
While you are gloating though, you should be very worried about the potential of having to face Price, Shields and Hellickson. That would worry me more if I were a Yankee’s fan.
9/27/2011 9:44 am
Wounded ferrets, dude, wounded ferrets. Rabid ones, in this case.
9/27/2011 1:02 pm
Go Bills!
9/28/2011 9:06 am
And if the Red Sox make it into the playoffs, they’ll have Yale grad Lavarnway to thank.
9/28/2011 8:37 pm
excellent study
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/9/28/harvard-universities-study-top/
next is public disclosure of how many people work in Harvard administration, benchmarked against peer institutions in the State.
This is absolutely indispensable information as the University gets ready to launch a major development campaign. Donors have a right to know that funds are well used and that overhead is competitive with industry standards.
9/28/2011 8:43 pm
“The company is under-performing, its share price is trailing, and the CEO gets…a multi-million-dollar raise. This story is familiar, for good reason: as this book clearly demonstrates, structural flaws in corporate governance have produced widespread distortions in executive pay. Pay without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of managers’ influence over their own pay-and of a governance system that must fundamentally change if firms are to be managed in the interest of shareholders. ”
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674022287
9/28/2011 8:57 pm
Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that the study compares Harvard, which manages its own endowment, with universities that pay outside managers to manage their endowments. In the latter case the compensation of the managers don’t show in the disclosures, and could well be the same as or higher than what Harvard pays.
The performance question is a legitimate one, of course, but knowing whether any of these universities gets what it is paying for would require knowing what they are paying as well as what they are getting and how those numbers compare to the general world of fund management.
9/28/2011 8:58 pm
“doesn’t” show, sorry.
9/28/2011 9:57 pm
well said Harry. The performance question, or course, should refer to all senior managers, not just those managing funds for the University. Should include Mass Hall senior staff, Deans and their senior leadership and so on.