It’s such a warm, pleasant feeling when a pet accepts a gift. Especially when that pet is a geriatric, sick, feeble, unhappy, depressed, lonely rat.

It’s so hard to know how to do anything to make his life just a little bit easier. We try different treats and things all the time to cheer him up, and sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. I just found some old bedding material I’d forgotten about, thought Globox might like it, so I put it in his cage.

An hour later, I passed by and saw that he’d already taken …

THEY DID IT!

THE RED SOX HAVE WON THE WORLD SERIES!

Ok, I now have a cell phone.

Sox playoffs board - Boston.com hosts a lively discussion of what Boston and St. Louis, as cities, might wager against one another in the ongoing Sox/Cards World Series. One reader suggested that Bostonians get Ted Drewes and toasted ravioli if the Sox win - sounds good to me!

It’s my fourth night in a row listening to baseball on the kitchen radio. At the bottom of the sixth, the Cardinals have just overturned a 2-1 Astros lead in Game 7 of the National League series with three goddamn fucking runs. It’s 4-2, going into the seventh, and whoever wins this goes on to face the Red Sox in the World Series.

Last year, I gave up and became a Red Sox fan. After nearly 15 years of not caring one rat shit about baseball (first in Kentucky and then in New Hampshire, neither of …

FOXSports.com - Red Sox survive wild ride to force Game 7 - Get ready for the Game of the Century. If you haven’t been following the series, this article provides a great summary of the series so far as well as the most recent “gut-wrenching” 6th game.

You have to read this - I mean, there were RIOT COPS, ferchrissake.

AND it’s the first time in history a team has gone onto a seventh game after losing the first three games.

quotes from the announcers, transcribed as I’m listening:

“Fenway’s been pretty much on its feet ever since this went into extra innings”

“Ortiz just gave everyone’s heart a jump start there!”
(2 and 2, 2 outs, bottom of the 14th, he hits a fly homer distance, but it gets called foul on the line)

“This is now the longest postseason game on record.”

[Editor’s note:
AW FUCK!
HE JUST DID IT!}

GAME 6!!!!!

“The Red Sox won 5-4 to force a sixth game! What a game! What a season!”

Did I count wrong or did he really hit four fouls before he made the winning hit?

Boston!

Ok, look: this is just the best baseball ever. Freshly crushed 19-8 in the third game of a three game losing streak against the Yankees, down 4-3 at the bottom of the ninth in Game 4, they tie it up, then go on to win it in the 12th, just barely keeping themselves alive for what has to be an impossible Game 5.

Wow, wow, wow.

Today I noticed a subtlety of the Boston accent I never noticed before: ‘question’ is pronounced ‘quechuh(n)’, following what seems to be the general trend across languages to lose/modify/soften ’sk’,’st’ and ’sp’ constructions - too hard to pronounce!

Well, I think it’s interesting anyway.

I’m at work retooling our web page when the phone rings (don’t you love stories that start this way?). I pick it up and hear something like this:

“Good morning sir, may I speak with someone in your accounts payable department?”

Me: Who’s calling please?

“This is Verizon, my name is Rebecca, I’m Operator Number 31072. I’d like to speak with whoever handles your phone bills.”

Me: That would be me. How can I help you?

“I’m calling to notify you that next month Verizon will be returning to its single statement billing scheme. Starting next month your local and long distance …