Sports time

it's called multitasking: NFL preseason on ABC, alternating with Cards/Brewskies on ESPN ... while I monitor my Sox (and the Spankees/Chisox showdown) with online overlays -- and keep up with e-mail and in-progress writings at the same blink.

Note the joy of tracking the Sox, as they are becoming (like the NFL Patriots?) a team that expects to win, and sees a deficit as a temporary setback not a crushing stompage! Tonight a perfect e.g., as they spotted Texas 3, then came back with 4. (I had a gut feeling Papi was gonna slap one deep, and he did to start the comeback.) Of course now Miller (the one who spells it like it is pronounced, that is?) keeps giving up hits, and even runs, so it's back to a tie, but somehow they will find a way as they have so often the last couple of years. And the Patsies will make Payton and the other pretenders take notice as usual once they get under way. Fun being a "Boston fan" even from 1500 miles away; just wishing sometimes I could afford NESN to be piped in ...