"Coma Guy" gets my vote

I haven't splurged for the $14.95 "official" Red Sox Nation citizenship so I'm not sure if I'm allowed to vote for "president," but there is a candidate who has caught my eye: 'Coma Guy!'

From the Boston Herald:

"Steve Manganello, the 42-year-old Red Sox fanatic known in Sox lore as the “Coma Guy,” has two driving passions: to be Red Sox Nation president and to witness a Red Sox World Series championship.

The hard-luck fan...slipped into a 17-day coma at the start of 2004 playoff season after getting smashed by a taxi traveling 50 mph while he was crossing a street in Japan.

Though he came out of the coma in time for the four-game comeback against the Yankees, Manganello spent a month in a persistent haze, barely conscious and unable to remember much about the first Red Sox championship in 86 years."

Yikes...that was a bad time to be comatose. Manganello deserves to be president. As he said in his speech at a presidential event Tuesday at Game On, "It's been 89 years for me."

For what it's worth, if Manganello proves to be unelectable for any reason -- skeletons in his closet, overly zealous campaign speeches, relatives who are Yankees fans -- El Guapo would be my second choice. Garces promised that his first action as president would be "to give each member of Red Sox Nation 'El Guapo' bobble-bellies. Like a bobble-head, except the belly shakes." What could be better?

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