A perfect cap to an amazing season... An estimated 3.2 million people, the largest gathering in the history of Boston, turned out yesterday to cheer the Boston Red Sox as they wound their way from Fenway Park through downtown and finally down the Charles River by Duck Boat. The Boston Globe estimates that the crowd was 100 people deep at points along the parade route. Amazing... Personally, I'll be joining in the celebration when the team comes to Portland, Maine sometime next week after the election.

In a lot of ways you have to feel bad for St. Louis and their fans who really never had a chance. During the brief four game series, the Cardinals never once had a lead. The Red Sox simply dominated to become the first team in the history of baseball to come back from 0-3 to win 4 straight in the ALCS and then going on to sweep the Cards 4-0. Eight games straight... It's almost too good to be true. Thank you Red Sox - hard work and a really great attitude does pay off and you guys so richly deserve a place in the record books.




May you rest in peace Babe.

That was sweet... Red Sox rule!

Thanks for making this is best series ever guys! And man --- will it be sweet if the Sox pull off a 0-3 comeback to win game seven in New York.

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David Ortiz hits the 472nd pitch of game four of the ALCS with two outs in the 14th inning Monday night to cap a second straight amazing comeback and give the Red Sox a 5-4 victory over the New York Yankees and send the AL championship series back to New York.

Boston had been three outs from a humiliating sweep in Game 4 before Ortiz's two-run homer in the 12th inning ended a 5-hour, 2-minute marathon at 1:22 a.m. Monday.

Man these past two nights of baseball have been amazing. What a battle. New England thanks David Ortiz!

Monday, October 15th 2004 1:22 AM 12th inning David Ortiz two-run homer puts the Red Sox on top 6-4, burns the broom, and brings the series to 1-3 Yankees. The replay of Friday night's rained out game 3 will be played tonight in Fenway at 5:00 PM Eastern.

Cool! The Complete Episode Summaries for the Original Star Trek Series. I remember watching these with my dad when I was a kid. Might have to get that boxed DVD set one of these days...

Just recently started up a consulting contract writing a threat detection and remediation engine for a security company that has asked to remain anonymous. What's cool is that we're going to make this thing generically reconfigurable via encryped XML payloads. If you're familiar with my work, you can guess the types of tools and libraries I'm using to build this engine. And no it's not a Hyperworx Platform application. It does however apply several really cool techniques I developed to implement some of the more gnarly Hyperworx subsystems.

Appologies for slacking on my open source project work but there's really nothing I can do about it at this point. The bills have to be paid or I'll be offline in more ways than one.

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Am I the only one sick to death of listening to both Bush and Kerry? I can't wait until November 3rd. Got a real kick out of talking folks from the Maine Republican party who called to convince me that the administration is doing great things for small business owners. Let's just say that I found their arguments specious and leave it at that.

Well I enjoyed game one even if the Red Sox lost. Game two - well I wasn't really too happy about that. Wonder if I'll win the lotery for two seats to tomorrow night's game three at Fenway. Yea right. Probably have a better chance of scoring a winning lottery ticket. Just checked eBay and a pair of box seats on the field will set you back about $2,000 at this point. Well I guess I won't "buy now" - WTF that's outrageous even to see the Sox vs. the Yanks in Fenway.

Go Sox!