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Earth To Nomar-Haters

by Ernie Paicopolos, Editor-In-Chief

May 30, 2006. That deafening silence you hear from certain FlashBoys, columnists and websites is simply the predictable hibernation pattern of the species Nomarus Hatatem (AKA Nomar-Haters). Gee, where have they all gone? Do you think it might have something to do with the fact that Nomar is putting up Comeback Player Of The Year stats (.362 AVG; .606 SLG; .427 OBP; 1.033 OPS as of May 30th)? Maybe it's just not fashionable anymore to bash one of the greatest Red Sox players ever—doesn't have the pizzazz it once did. You know, it's way more fun to kick someone when they're down. Make up fake stories, call him "Mr. Hamm". All that good stuff.

Of course, most of these humanitarians have found other straw men to attack (Manny, until he got hot; Loretta until he had a 14-game hitting streak; etc. etc.). So, the next time you hear one of these up-standing pillars of the sports community attacking a player, consider the source. Then, change the station, turn the page, or click the mouse.

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Close Encounter Of The Evil Kind

By Chris Curtis, FN Correspondent

May 28, 2006. Hello to everyone back home in Red Sox Nation. I am chasing tornadoes with Wally again right now; in fact I am in the van writing this as we burn East towards Kansas and a supercell storm with radar-indicated rotation right now. As we have made our way from southern New Mexico to northern South Dakota I have been able to keep up with most of the goings-on connected to our beloved nine. The continuing excellence of Papel-Papel Bon-Bon could turn out to be the most amazing (regular season) thing to happen to RSN since Rocket emerged in ’86; or perhaps Lynn and Rice in ’75.

While we have been tooling around the plains we had an interesting encounter. We visited Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad NM about a week ago and saw something truly terrifying. Each night at around sunset a swarm of perhaps hundreds of thousands of bats come sweeping up and out from this massive cave. We arrived just in time to see them fly the night we got there and then the next morning, after all the great swarm of bats had returned to sleep for the day, we headed down into the cave ourselves. The first part of the trek involves walking downhill for just over a mile, deeper and deeper below the earth. We pass by the side cavern where the bats hang from the ceiling, and go deeper still, daylight having disappeared long ago. (We just passed the Kansas state line and this storm is looking mighty ferocious….)

Upon reaching the lowest level of the cave the second trail goes for about another mile, through an ‘Enormous Room’ that is billed as 14 times the volume of the Astrodome. (I find the estimate to be a little high, but even one Astrodome is pretty darn huge for a cave..) As we made our way past boulders the size of trawlers we stumbled upon something that stopped me dead in my tracks.

Now, as an existentialist I’m not one to put much stock in religious mythology, but what I saw there on the floor of this cave, almost 800 feet below the surface of the Earth, was one of those times when the mind opens up to greater possibilities. If, indeed, great evil lies below the ground then what confronted us could well be a sign of just exactly that. There on the ground was a black Yankee cap. Just sitting there, smug in its ugliness. We carefully edged past the offending object and, shaken, continued on. If Wally and I do get to see another tornado, we’ll send a picture along, in the meantime try to stay out of caves. Something evil may well lurk below……..

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