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Ok NOW I understand why so many business’ that seemed to sympathize with what my blog and Radio Show were hesitant to advertise in 2011 & 2012.

This week reminds me of the 1966 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles & the LA Dodgers.

The Dodgers had made the trip to the post season in those pre-playoff days regularly 1947 & featured one of the greatest 1-2 punches in Baseball history with Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale.

The Orioles on the other hand had never played in a world series. Their one trip as the St. Louis Browns was at the height of World War 2 when the best players were absent.

Conventional wisdom was the Dodgers would take the Orioles apart and when journeyman Moe Draboskey came in to relieve Dave McNally with the bases loaded and nobody out in the 3^rd things looked grim.

Six innings later Draboskey & the O’s won Game 1 on their way to a sweep of the vaunted Dodgers but were about to start their period as one of the dominant teams of the American League.

The GOP must be feeling like the 66 O’s right now. Last week at this time President Obama was riding high, Kelly Ayotte was under constant attack for her vote on Manchin/Toomey, Mark Sanford had just won election on sc-1 ensuring a flock of stories hurting the GOP and talk of the immigration bill was not IF one would pass, but what type of bill would finally make it through congress and how much it would hurt the GOP when it did.

Meanwhile the press was uninterested in Benghazi, the IRS scandal was considered the paranoid ravings of tea party fanatics, and the press knew that their love for Obama was returned.

A lot of things can happen in a week, and there is every chance the media will pivot to something else if they can find an excuse to do so.

One of the things people forget about the IRS scandal is the multiplier effect. How many people didn’t join the tea party, or give , or talk to other people about the tea party because of fear of audits? This is the real scandal, the intimidation of those opposed to this administration.

I wonder if the press that is upset about the chilling effect of the AP being tapped understands this, or are they thinking: Serves you right.

The outrage of the press and congress on the targeting of the right is rather amusing to me. For the last three years they have called the tea party every name in the book, implied they were violent astroturf (unlike occupy everwhere that was supposedly a wholly organic peaceful movement that never did a violent thing in their lives). Let’s not forget the moment the Bombs went off in Boston the media was speculating that it was the fault of right wing extremists.

If the press wants to blame someone over this they should look in the mirror.

BTW do you think for one minute the IRS scandal happens if the people involved thought for one moment the press would report on it before the election?

Speaking of the Boston Bomber also known as the young heartthrob of thousands of women. Jahar apparently left a note behind in the Boat where he was taken detailing his grievances against the United States for its crimes against islam and calling the innocents killed “collateral damage”

I’d be angrier about those girls in denial over Jahar, if the MSM wasn’t so much in denial about Islam.

Oh and speaking of another odd coincidence:

Massachusetts state police say they and the FBI are investigating a trespassing incident at the Quabbin Reservoir but have no evidence of terrorism.

The central Massachusetts reservoir supplies drinking water to Boston.

Why would Terrorism even be suspected?

Procopio said they are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Singapore with addresses in Amherst, Cambridge, Sunderland and Northampton, and New York City.

And the explanation for being there at 12:30 AM?

The men told police they are recently graduated chemical engineers curious about the reservoir.

Oh I’m sure there is absolutely nothing going on that has anything to do with any religion that doesn’t have anything to do with terrorism, or even Cigarette Smuggling.

Bob Woodward was on Morning Joe this week. We haven’t seen much of him lately since his last clash with the administration. When asked about Benghazi Woodward went off the reservation again:

“You were talking earlier about kind of dismissing the Benghazi issue as one that’s just political and the president recently said it’s a sideshow,” said Woodward. “But if you read through all these e-mails, you see that everyone in the government is saying, ‘Oh, let’s not tell the public that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let’s not tell the public that there were warnings.’ I hate to show, this is one of the documents with the editing that one of the people in the state department said, ‘Oh, let’s not let these things out.’ And I have to go back 40 years to Watergate when Nixon put out his edited transcripts to the conversations, and he personally went through them and said, ‘Oh, let’s not tell this, let’s not show this.’ I would not dismiss Benghazi. It’s a very serious issue. As people keep saying, four people were killed. You look at the hydraulic pressure that was in the system to not tell the truth, and, you know, we use this term and the government uses this term, talking points. Talking points, as we know, are like legal briefs. They’re an argument on one side. What we need to get rid of talking point and they need to put out statements or papers that are truth documents. Okay, this is all we know.”

Woodward got a lot of grief over hitting this administration earlier this year. I wonder how much payback was involved there.

Last week we had Dr. Paul Byrne on DaTechGuy on DaRadio talking about Brain Death & Organ donation. If you only listen to one of my shows. Listen to this one.

A little more sports, How bad are the Houston Astros? As of May 16^th just 41 games into the season they are 4 ½ games behind the LA Angels.

That doesn’t sound so bad, until you realize the Angels are 11 ½ games out of first. Teams all over the American League are just dying for the Astros to come to town, they’re a winning streak just waiting to happen.

The same thing must be going on in the NL when Miami comes to town.

The Boston Bruins made an almost impossible comeback against the Toronto Maple Leafs to finish the first round of the NHL Stanly cup playoffs. Down 4-1 in the 3^rd period they managed three goals to tie, two of them while playing with an empty net , then eventually win in overtime.

Paying with an empty net when you are down is usually an act of desperation. It’s rare that it works to score once, it’s almost unheard of to have it work twice in one game.

That photo spread of Emma Watson made me feel VERY old.

Some Doctor Who news. According to reports the season finale was accidentally leaked to fans in America when Blu Ray sets of 7^th season were shipped early.

I tend to disbelieve it as during the week not a single spoiler managed to make it on the net. In this internet age that’s practically unheard of.

Me If I was a hacker wanting to take control of computers I’d have had an infected torrent with the preview spliced into it as soon as the news came out. I’d have control of half of England’s internet by now.

See you next week.

User the Fedora Quick takes

Does anyone actually believe that seeing their friend on TV prompted three kids to go to his dorm and suddenly decide, “let’s take laptops & explosives from his apartment because we had nothing to do with it and no knowledge of it?”

Hitler’s last remaining food taster has outed herself at 95.

Imagine being offered that job, how quickly would you be shot if you said: “No!”?

Pundit & Pundette names names:

Attorneys Mark Greenwald, Charles Hartwell, David Grubb, Andrew Kramer, William Newport, Juan Ruiz, and Kerry Maloney were confronted with a growing pile of disquieting facts about Gosnell, including a detailed, inside account from a former employee, and a 22-year-old dead woman. Every time, though, they managed to dismiss the evidence as immaterial. Every time, that is, until the facts hit the fan.

And asks the question

Have they been held accountable in any way? Have they at least lost their jobs? Let me know if you have any information.

Don't hold your breath.

Hezbollah says they aren't going to sit back and let Assad fall Their statement is here

So we have the potential of Hezbollah terrorists, fighting Al Qaeda Terrorists, fighting the Syrian Government and killing each other?

As a Catholic I say it's a shame, but the American at war with terror says: "Pass the popcorn"

It's May and as I type this the oil truck came down to my house and made a delivery costing $492

My weekly pay from writing is $300 and that’s totally dependent on readers. Two thoughts:

This same oil bill was half the price when George Bush was president.

Global warming my ***

I found an interesting quote at Viral Read concerning yet another liberal fake hate crime:

Even after the threat was exposed as a hoax, a University of Wyoming spokesman cited the “progress” resulting from the “discussion” Lanker-Simons’s fraud had provoked.

 

“This episode has sparked an important discussion reaffirming that the UW community has no tolerance for sexual violence or violence of any type,” university spokesman Chad Baldwin said in a statement. “The fact that the Facebook post apparently was a fabrication does not change the necessity for continued vigilance in reassuring that we have a campus where everyone feels safe. It’s important that this event does not undermine the progress that has been made in this area.”

Remember this is a university spokesman. I wonder if a Gay Group, or a Black Group or a Muslim Group had been implicated in a criminal hoax if the university would say the reaction "sparked an important discussion"

Maybe they can give a list of who we can accuse falsely to advance our agenda?

This story has gotten a lot of play this week (except in the MSM)

So President Barack Obama’s civilian appointees who lead the Pentagon are confirming that the military will make it a crime–possibly resulting in imprisonment–for those in uniform to share their faith. This would include chaplains—military officers who are ordained clergymen of their faith (mostly Christian pastors or priests, or Jewish rabbis)–whose duty since the founding of the U.S. military under George Washington is to teach their faith and minister to the spiritual needs of troops who come to them for counsel, instruction, or comfort.

Remember the quote from Cardinal Francis George :

I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square.

Still doubt it?

Was there anything more disingenuous than the stacked town hall with MSNBC there to bring the Newtown girl to hit Kelly Ayotte?

There is a term for the threat of half the staff of the LA Times threatening to quit if the Koch brothers buy the paper, it’s called “incentive”.

Grief does things to people I would like to think she is being used, instead of using her mother's murder to advance her agenda.

There was a funny post at YouTango giving advice to women on how they lose men. It wasn't the post that was so funny as was the description of the author as a "certified sex coach"?

What does a sex coach do. Do she sit and watch and then stop you in the midst of intimacy saying: No you do it THIS way?

Is it like a baseball manager, if you just don’t have it do they call to the bullpen for a replacement?

And what about Certification? Who certifies such a person?

How do they DO the certification? Do you have a board of 5 people in a room, have the coach sit down, bring in a couple of porn stars to work for 10 minutes and have the coach list what they did wrong?

Unless your state has crime, budgets and a first rate education system I don’t think It should be spending money on certifying Sex Coaches.

Jason Collins the 34 year unsigned backup center late of the Washington wizards is still getting all kinds of Accolades for coming out as gay. I think it’s pretty wise financial move, he doesn’t want to be thenancial move, he doesn' there is no next Larry Doby after all.

What you've never heard of Larry Doby? That's odd he is a member of the Baseball Hall of fame. He played 13 seasons in the Majors with the Indians White Sox and Tigers, led the league in runs and Home Runs in 1952, Homers & RBIs Runs in 1952, Homers & Rbi's in 1954 slugging and in 1948 played on the last Cleveland Indian team to win a world series beating the Boston (now Atlanta) braves in 6 games.

But he was the 2^nd Black player in the Majors (Although the 1^st in the AL) and even though he won a World Series 7 years before Jackie Robinson .

There is no percentage in being #2 and being the first at a time when the entire media was simply begging for a gay player to come out is the best meal ticket a man could buy.

One more thing now that Collins has come out as gay I wonder if NBA teams will be making sure the work environment is not uncomfortable in NBA offices & locker rooms? I don’t mean for Gays, I mean for Christians.

I wonder how things would be different if Christians started making those complaints and suing? Could be interesting.

The 4^th Doctor special premiered last weekend and it was simply delightful. Tom Baker, Louise Jameson and John Leeson the voice of K-9 all were interviewed. It actually had some information I had not previously known. It was a real pleasure.

On the minus side we now have news about 50^th Anniversary special that apparently will not be as special as we all thought.

After months of speculation about which, if any, previous Doctor Who actors would return for the show's 50th anniversary episode, David Tennant alone has been confirmed.

The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine, out today, states: “Although David Tennant has returned to his role of the Tenth Doctor, the other old Doctors will not be taking part.”

It’s not as if the old doctors don’t want to appear either:

"All of us want to do it, just for the fans – because that's what they want," he explained. "But we've heard nothing – Tom Baker's heard nothing, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Paul McGann… none of us have heard anything."

Apparently what does it matter what the old fans who kept things going for 50 years.

"I remember [former Who showrunner] Russell T Davies saying something to a fan once – the fan was saying, 'You should bring back the Brigadier and you should bring back Leela and you should bring back all these different characters'.

"Russell said, 'No, it's not appropriate sometimes. It's not always about the uber-fan… it's about the viewer and the new audience who are watching'."

Yeah it’s not appropriate sometimes but for the 50^th Anniversary, Yeah it’s pretty damn appropriate. As I’ve said before, what’s the point of having a 50^th anniversary special and not have any of the living Doctor’s in it except for the new series. That makes it a 9^th anniversary special not a 50^th big whoop.

That’s the real shame of it all, normally a multi Doctor Story with the 10^th & 11^th doctors would be a cause for celebration and excitement, instead it a cause for disappointment.

Cripes is the BBC taking lessons on disappointing the base from the GOP?

Later

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The Debate is still going on about the “causes” of the Boston attacks but at the UN there is someone who knows what’s going on :

UN Human Rights Council “expert” Richard Falk has published a statement saying Bostonians got what they deserved in last week’s terror attack. He quotes W.H. Auden to make his point: “to whom evil is done/do evil in return.”

Richard Falk is the UN’s “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.” He has held the post since 2008, despite exposure as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.

Yid with lid is not surprised:

Falk is a big believer in “human rights”, who called the Ayatollah Khomeini a liberator. He blames Islamofacist terror on the fact that much of Islam “finds itself under the heels of U.S. economic, military, cultural, and diplomatic power.” (Well at least that is cleared up). Falk is also a member of a lawyers organization that the CIA once called a “front” for the Soviet Union and just like Rosie O’Donnell is a member of groups who are still waiting for the “real” story of 9/11.

Me I think if this is all the US’s fault, and the Palestinians believe this, after all their special rapporteur is saying this publicly, they certainly don’t want any of our dirty money. In fact if the UN feels the same, we should be duty bound to keep the cash so they aren’t contaminated by it.

It’s a big sacrifice but we’ll do it for them.

We are still hearing about the Poem for Dzhokhar from the once completely unknown Amander Plummer. People are outraged over empathy for the bomber.

I’ve read the poem, I think the only connection to the bomber is the title. I think this woman was looking for attention and suckered a lot of people into giving it to her.

Welcome to the world of Twitter.

Yesterday the AP was hacked and a fake headline stating a bombing took place at the White House injuring the president was tweeted out. This confirms a basic lesson that is the same anywhere. Your passwords are only as secure as the most careless person who knows them.

The stock market briefly tanked before this was caught. I’ve never understood this, let’s say this was true, who calls there broker in a panic saying: The White House has been bombed! Sell 10,000 shares of Gerber baby foods!

I wonder how much of this is programmed.

Here is a story that is getting no play at all:

 

Iraq carried out its first election since the U.S. military withdrawal without major bloodshed on Saturday in a major test for Iraqi security forces as they face a reviving al-Qaida insurgency.

Granted there has been a lot of stuff in the news this last week but I’d think the first election in Iraq without us going without a hitch is a big deal.

If Iraq continues to normalize it will continue to be a non-story, after all who wants to blame George Bush for a successful state as opposed to a basket case like Egypt?

Bush is clearly the best president of the 21^st century, granted there are only two choices unless you count Bill Clinton’s 19 lame duck days. I suspect as time passes he will be harder to dislodge that people think.

In West Virginia a teen has decided to fight over an NRA T-Shirt

Marcum has said that he was arrested on charges of disrupting an educational process and obstructing an officer, though White said Monday that the Logan County prosecutor’s office is reviewing the case to decide whether to proceed.

Marcum wore the same shirt to school Monday. It displays the NRA logo and a hunting rifle.

Other students across Logan County wore similar shirts, which display the NRA logo and a hunting rifle, to school in a show of support for 14-year-old Jared Marcum, said his lawyer Ben White.

There are two sex scandal stories out there this week the first has a political angle:

According to the affidavit, from May 2012 through February 2013, Adam Paul Savader sent anonymous text messages using Google Voice numbers to 15 women stating that he had nude photographs of the women and threatening to distribute the nude photographs to the women’s friends and family members unless the women sent him more nude photographs of themselves. Savader sent some of the victims links to a photo-sharing website where nude pictures of the victims had been posted.

This guy is a former intern to Paul Ryan, personally I wouldn’t have thought people would have fallen for this but apparently this stuff is more common than you think.

Stacy McCain put it well:

There is a lesson here about the perils of the digital age: Anything you put on the Web — even uploaded to private accounts — can be accessed, if someone with enough skills really wants to get to it bad enough. And naked pictures? Yeah, don’t do those. Ever. Because that boyfriend you’re sending them to may not be your boyfriend forever.

The second comes from Lowell and involves a Buddhist Monk

The woman shown having sex with a Buddhist monk in a video recently circulated in the Cambodian community has filed a civil lawsuit against five individuals she alleges illegally distributed the tape.

Taping of the voice and actions of a private person without permission in Massachusetts and distributing them is illegal, which Maya Men highlights in her suit.

Among those Men has sued following the release of the tape of her sexually engaging with the Venerable Nhem Kimteng are another local monk and a former member of the executive committee for the $10 million Lowell temple project Men is helping lead.

Kimteng and Men were filmed in the Trairatanaram Temple in North Chelmsford.

Why do I have the feeling that if this involved a Catholic Priests instead of Buddhist monks it would be a front page headline in the Globe and all over the MSM?

Some sports? Remember before the Baseball season began everyone was picking the Redsox & Yankees to finish 4^th & 5^th in the AL East? As of this morning The Red Sox are in a 1^st place tie & the Yankees are a whole ½ game out.

As they say, that’s why they actually play the games.

I’m still not used to the Houston Astros in the AL but I’m sure the 4 other teams in the AL West currently ahead of them are happy to see them there.

This is THE best time of the year for sports, Baseball, Hockey & Basketball all being played at once. One might make the point that Nov & Dec you have three major sports played at once too but if one of them isn’t Baseball it doesn’t count.

I’ve talked about the number of Electoral votes Massachusetts has lost in my lifetime (5) if you want to get a good idea where all those votes went, check the attendance figures when the Red Sox come to town when they play in Red States.

People say: Don’t you wish New England folk would elect more conservatives, I answer New England folk DO, we just do so in the states they’ve moved to.

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Watched High Noon Yesterday it really holds up over time and the cast is simply out of this world. While Gary Cooper & Grace Kelly get top billing to me the most interesting moments are the scenes between Lloyd Bridges & Katy Jurado.

Until I looked it up I would have never known that Juardo was only 28 at the time. She carries herself much older and you would never guess Lloyd Bridges was a full 9 years older than her.

Movies are all about the art of illusion.

Shakespeare’s birthday was this week. It’s become fashionable to devalue his plays but let’s face it, how many playwrights still have their plays performed regularly 400+ years after their birth. In fact I don’t think you can find a day in the last 50 years when a play of Shakespeare was not performed in some theater somewhere in the world.

That’s immortality!

Finally This week’s is the 4^th of the Doctor Who 50th anniversary specials on BBC America. The subject is 4^th Doctor Tom Baker the Doctor Who most familiar to Americans before the revival of the series.

Tom Baker’s complete with 12’-18’ scarf is THE definitive Doctor. He held the role for 7 years got the show it’s best ratings and is regularly voted the best Doctor ever by the fans (losing only a few time in the last 30 years).

37 years ago I accidentally discovered the show and him on Channel 12 Rhode Island on a Saturday afternoon and have been hooked ever since. In 1981 I got my first credit card in college and used it to buy a VCR for $500, as much as a semester of college at the time, to tape the show regularly off of public TV. I still have the tapes and on occasion my sons & I watch them together on a $20 VCR.

If you watch only one of the specials, watch this one.

See you next week.

It’s CPAC plus one week and after shooting over 100 pices of video scheduled as posts over a two week period and with my youngest’s school schedule giving him Mon & Wed off till summer I actually had time to solicit my radio show door to door in person in Concord Ma this week.

I know in theory someone should be selling this for me and I’m constantly on the lookout for people willing to do commission sales for me but there is something about important and special about doing the work yourself, meeting people and talking your show and web site, nobody knows your show or business like you do and it’s good for people to see the host of the show in person.

Some things are just so ridiculous that you have to see them to believe them. Al Sharpton hitting people for anti-Semitism is a great example

@bethanyshondark @amandacarpenter Al Sharpton cries #antisemitism on @morning_joe Heads must be exploding in #newyork @yidwithlid #tcot #p2

— Peter Ingemi (@DaTechGuyblog) March 25, 2013

Yid with lid’s head didn’t explode but Jeff did comment:

When people falsely use terms like Antisemitism, ESPECIALLY when they are anti-Semitic haters like Al Sharpton, it waters down the effect of what should be a horrible label.

Al Sharpton has no right to determine what is anti-Semitic, but as a Jew who has faced Antisemitism many times during his life..I do. People who are fighting for the Second Amendment, like me for example, are not doing so because of Jew hatred.

Al Sharpton, the MSNBC broadcaster/professional agitator who used the term this morning is an Anti-Semite of the worst kind.

If you ever question Glenn Reynolds deserved the lifetime achievement award for blogging at CPAC consider that it takes 4 bloggers to replace him on his site when he goes on vacation.

Stacy McCain continues to be busy, he is now Editor in Chief of a new site Viral Read which combines both cultural news and political news. (This BTW is an excellent idea, we need to be part of the bigger culture if we are going to win) but he is also on the road again heading down to SC-1 to cover the Sanford Bostic GOP primary.

Mark Sanford’s history makes him a kamikaze choice for the GOP. Even if he wins both the primary and the general election the GOP loses, meanwhile Bostic has already been endorsed by both Rick Santorum and Ann Coulter.

If I was a democrat I’d be shoveling money to the Sanford campaign and readying mailings attacking Bostic ASAP they would rather avoid facing a Marine with Deployments to Kuwait & Saudi Arabia than a pol whose most famous deployment was to Argentina.

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A few months ago I interviewed some writers who were big Dr. Who fans. It appeared that there were two distinct Dr. Who cultures. Guys like me, the straight guys into history & SF and a very liberal subculture full of Gay men who absolutely adored the series.

This came to mind with the daily mail story concerning John Nathan Turner producer of Dr. Who who took over for the last Tom Baker season and presided over it’s steady decline and cancellation.

The BBC faces a new sex scandal over claims two senior Doctor Who staff abused their positions to exploit fans.

A book alleges the show’s longest-serving producer, John Nathan-Turner, and his partner, production manager Gary Downie, preyed on young male fans in the 1980s.

Many of the men, the book says, were under 21 – at the time the homosexual age of consent.

I guess that explains why the series had its decline, the producer had other things on their mind. It took a lot of years for this stuff to get out to the public, if only a Catholic Priest was involved perhaps it might have generated some interest before now.

BTW this weekend I’ll have the pleasure of both the new 50^th anniversary special with the 3^rd Doctor and the new season with Matt Smith. For all the talk of the Gay fan subculture without them I wouldn’t be enjoying both of these series this weekend.

While the MSM is all Gay Marriage all the time Dave Weigel (one of my guests on DaTechGuy on DaRadio last week) pointed out something that is a sore spot for me:

The new Democratic advocates for SSM fall into two camps. The first consists of people who always liked the idea of this but worried about losing national elections. In his memoir, Democratic consultant Bob Shrum remembers John Kerry fretting that the Massachusetts Supreme Court had forced Democrats to talk about gay marriage before they were ready to. “Why couldn’t they just wait a year?” he asked Shrum, mournfully. The second camp consists of people who really do oppose the idea of gay people getting married. Republicans argued that this second camp was tiny, and that liberals were hiding behind it. They were right!

The “We don’t need a constitutional Amendment” has been and always was a lie, and the democrat party that has always been beholding to the entertainment and media industries in which the homosexual community is highly overrepresented while believing Christians are highly unrepresented

The left is the secular party; Christianity and traditional values are the enemy. I recognized it almost 20 years ago, it remains to be seen when everyone else will get it.

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This is Holy week the most sacred time in the Church’s calendar. A lot of people think that Christmas is the holiest day of the year, and some think Easter but Good Friday and the Easter Vigil beat them both. The Easter Vigil mass is a minimum 3 hours and can run 4-5 depending on the number of people joining the church that day.

A lot of people don’t realize it but the Catholic Church is very serious about adult and family conversions. You don’t just get baptized it takes a fair amount of time, preparation and study to join the church. I think this is why converted adults tend to be stronger and more knowledgeable about the faith than cradle Catholics, they HAVE to learn the faith to become a part of it.

It appears the Boston Red Sox streak of sellouts is going to end this year. The Sox have a 6 state customer base, one of the most historic franchise in the nation and a ballpark that is not only one of the smallest in the majors but is itself an attraction in itself.

“It’s going to rest in peace sometime in April, I suspect,” Lucchino said of the streak, which began in 2003 and is the longest in U.S. pro sports history. “That’s not such a terrible thing. It’s an extraordinary accomplishment.”

But even that isn’t enough if you don’t put a worthwhile product on the field. Or the fact that it is prohibitively expensive for a family of four to attend a game. 4 tickets in the nosebleed seats run $120 (if you shift to the bleachers the price drops to a mere $112). If you want to sit other than in nosebleed land in left field you will pay over $200 and that’s without the premium you pay

That doesn’t count parking, hotdogs or drinks, or a program. In an economy where people are making half or less than what they were making 4 or 6 years ago

On the bright side so many people have fled NE the Red Sox can be sure that no matter what park they play New England expatriates who likely couldn’t afford good Red Sox seat will be in the stands to cheer.

You might leave to find a job but Red Sox fans never leave their team behind.

Happy Easter all.