Folks,

I'm sitting at my desk....nervous to the point of panic. And for a while I had no idea why. I mean, everything in Joeville is going pretty well - band, Ladybetrothed Sarah, I'm going bowling tomorrow etc. So why am I so god damn nervous?

And then it hit me. Against all my better judgment and plans to the contrary my emotional state is now inextricably linked to the Red Sox for the next month. And all my anxiety of this morning is coming directly from the hope that they can win two out of three in Yankee Stadium.

Damn it, after all the tears and the emotional roller coasters of last year I said this wouldn't happen again. I would watch the Red Sox with a detached sense of well-being this season. WRONG!

Oh well, I guess I will rejoin the land of the rational sometime before November. God help me.