The Daily Schadenfreude

Okay, I have to confess to being a long suffering Mets fan. But unlike the majority of Mets fans, I 1) do not think the Yankees are demons and that George Steinbrenner is an avatar of Prince Ba'al; and 2) like many Yankees fans I get an almost erotic thrill from watching Red Sox fans squirm as their team manages its annual collapse.

So the Yankees demolished the Sox 11-3 yesterday, opened up a 6.5 game AL East lead (their largest this season), and somewhere in this great land of ours a young mother gave birth to a strong healthy babe who will one day break the hearts of Bostonians all over again.