John Updike died yesterday. So in natural form, I'm going to bring it back around to baseball and the Boston Red Sox, as is my general style.

Here is his New Yorker article "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu".

I think every sports fan, regardless of sport, can understand this line about the hope one has for a losing team, "Nevertheless, there will always lurk, around a corner in a pocket of our knowledge of the odds, an indefensible hope, and this was one of the times, which you now and then find in sports, when a density of expectation hangs in the air and plucks an event out of the future."

I kinda felt that way back in 2004 ...