The Ponderosa: Watching the Red Sox "Rolling Rally" on ESPN News.

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Saturday, October 30, 2004

Watching the Red Sox "Rolling Rally" on ESPN News.

If you get this channel -- it is so much better than SportsCenter on standard ESPN ... no one trying to be funny, phat or angling for a cable show of his own ... just highlights and commentary ...

Anyhow, seeing the players -- grown men and millionaires all -- acting as giddy as we did when we won a game when we were nine -- reminds us of why we love sports so much.

There was an interview at Copley (Square?) with a bunch of young fans, obviously university students ... reminded me of that bit in "Spinal Tap" where Ian is consoling the band about being cancelled in Boston: "I wouldn't worry about it. Not a big college town."

The Ponderosa

Saturday, October 30, 2004

Watching the Red Sox "Rolling Rally" on ESPN News.

Available from The Virginia City Trading Post . . .

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