This might turn out to have been the perfect week to snap out of my football-induced hibernation and return to the world of Baseball:
The World Series Trophy might possibly be visiting my neighborhood Sox bar. So very location that just months ago I: watched nearly every Sox playoff game, perspired, drank, and um, otherwise relinquished again the volume of an olympic swimming pool, smoked a carton of cigarettes at least as much to get away from the sweltering heat as to alleviate the stress, was sprayed by champagne and beer in a mock locker room celebration, and was awarded a drunken half-kiss by a stranger in what is still the most romantic thing to happen to me since I moved to New York, could be graced with a presence even greater than mine, the World Series Trophy. There won't even need to be players present for me to know where I'm going to be this Friday.