Andrew Sullivan and John Adams/Play Ball!

Andrew Sullivan has a really powerful post, including a clip from the superlative HBO series "John Adams", about terrorists and civil liberties.

But on a dramatically less serious note, we have baseball results to talk about. Specifically, Red Sox results, and more specifically, the question of how such results are to be handled in this very space. I've done standard, plain vanilla, words-and-paragraphs, nickname laden stuff.

This raises a couple of questions-should I do it at all this year (i.e does anyone care)? And if I do, how shall I mix it up? The notion that is appealing to me is haiku. It's been done-Roger Angell wrote about a Sox fan doing it in the 1970s-plus extensive research (which means a Google search) yields the fact that there are other Sox fans doing haiku, but it doesn't appear that anyone is promising to do so for the 2010 season.

What to do, what to do.

In Fort Myers today, the Red Sox laid the annual shellacking on Northeastern University and Boston College. The Huskies went down in the first game, 15-0, and, at this writing, Boston leads the Eagles, 5-1 in the fifth. (For those of you not intimately familiar, professional farmhands should routinely beat even Division I college teams, mostly because professional players, even in the minor leagues, are primarily players who were either among the very best on their college teams, or so good they were given pro contracts instead of attending college.)

Tomorrow, Boston begins the real pretend games against Minnesota. (Boston plays Minnesota a lot during the spring because they both practice in Fort Myers.)

Or, in haiku form:

Games Start: Sox Take Two
Someday, Eagle Pitcher Will
Say: I Threw To Youk