"slowly climbing up, quickly flying down"

(Photo by tollerSCREAM. See more of her wonderful photos here.)

I learned two things today: 1) Pope John Paul II was an Honorary Harlem Globetrotter (thanks Dan!) and 2)The Red Sox won't always play like that magical, inspired, unbeatable team we saw over the weekend.

That was ugly tonight, wasn't it? It's April and we've officially boarded the roller coaster. Hang on.

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A few notes from today:

The Red Sox are 2-4 on Mondays and Tuesdays this season and 10-3 Wednesday-Sunday. What's the deal with that?

Jason Varitek has donated the bat he used on Sunday to hit the Red Sox fourth consecutive home run to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The ESPN footage of the four home runs is up on YouTube if you get the urge to watch it again. I did.

37,161 was the announced attendance at the Sox game tonight--the largest crowd since the World War II era. Wow. (I'm not sure why, but I just had the urge to add up those numbers 3+7+1+6+1 and they equal 18. Oooooh.)

The Yankees are in last place in the American League East.


The title of this post is from the poem "Roller Coaster" by Dean Thorpe.
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