With so much deprivation in the world, there’s something perverse about the Red Sox paying more than $51 million just for the right to negotiate with 26-year-old Japanese pitching standout Daisuke Matsuzaka. Still, Sox fans can’t help being appreciative about this clear sign of the organization’s desire to fight its way back into contention.
Sheldon Whitehouse ran a smart campaign and had superlative timing.
It’s a bit counter-intuitive, but Charles Fogarty’s narrow loss to Governor Donald L. Carcieri — after many people had expected the Democrat to get creamed — puts a brighter hue on whatever he decides to pursue in the future.
Members of the Rhode Island media won’t suffer for a lack of things to report about anytime soon. As we well know, the Ocean State is the gift that keeps on giving.
Josephine DiRuzzo is the quintessential political survivor. Having held Providence’s Ward 15 City Council seat since 1982, she has repulsed challenges in the last two campaign seasons by younger Latina candidates. Now, after facing the possibility of political extinction, DiRuzzo is no doubt enjoying her kingmaker’s role as the deciding vote for a new City Council president. This explains why Mayor David N. Cicilline was keeping DiRuzzo close at hand as state Democrats celebrated at the Biltmore after the November 7 election.
It’s good to be an HBO subscriber. The Wire, far and away, is the best thing on television.
Just taking some of the starch out of George W. Bush and his neo-con gang, while an overdue development, has to feel pretty good for many Americans.
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- Turning Japanese
On what will probably be a chilly day a little more than two months from now, Red Sox fans will be waiting for Daisuke Matsuzaka to bring the heat.
- Seven for seven
While coverage of the Red Sox is always excessive (except for the sweet deals they get from the politicians, but whatever), the arrival of Daisuke Matsuzaka will make things even worse than usual.
- Haru
Now that we Bostonians have O Ya and the South End’s Oishii, Haru is not a New York–upscale sushi place to us.
- Sporting verse
With the Yankees in town for their first Fenway visit on Friday night, it’s that time of year again: time for mangling the chilly elegance of Japanese lyric verse into clumsy sports jeers.
- Dice-k Dictionary
The Red Sox’ signing of Daisuke Matsuzaka bolster Boston’s starting rotation and spawned a burgeoning industry in Japanese signage around Fenway Park.
- The void recedes
So I say, to hell with the opener. Catching up with the Sox when they finally get to Oakland is fine.
- Post-steroid baseball
The bunting is hung. The chalk lines are laid out with Euclidian precision.
- Revenge of the toad
Some sports-crime stories aren’t funny in any way — they’re just plain violent and tragic. But every now and then you get a story that’s just pure fun.
- Carter’s cajones
The Republican Party is rife with classic wimps and bullies.
- Not-so-instant karma
No matter what happens over their next two games, the Patriots will not have gone undefeated in 2007.
- Ticket shock
When NESN periodically broadcasts a historic Red Sox game during the off-season, the vast swaths of empty seats are enough to cause a sharp sense of wistfulness for many fans.
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