You know I love the Herald. But can we agree that, notwithstanding today’s headline, marathon fever is NOT gripping the Hub.

Where that fever coincided with the running boom of the late 70’s, it has long since abated. Now the marathon is institutionalized for tourists, the way the freedom trail is, or Old Ironsides.

Sox fever is abating quickly too – for obvious reasons. But also, after the second ring, the energy left the room. Remember after Boone’s home run, the mania for the '04 season. Now, nothing like that fervor can last forever, but not only is this team weak, we don’t have the personalities and characters we engage in. Was dumping the idiots such a great marketing move? We don’t watch baseball for the sport – at least I don’t - rather we follow it for the drama that people we feel like we know are involved in, nightly. And I submit we don’t have that connection with this bunch of uninteresting losers, so far anyway.