We keep hoping a couple of tickets will drop like magic from the sky, but we've pretty much resigned ourselves to several more long nights with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver and several more mornings when coffee is all that stands between us and oblivion.

Or you could sell everything you own and do what one guy did: pay $21,766 for two seats behind home plate, as the Globe reported this morning. The article also lists several scalpers online ticket brokers and the prices they're charging; since the $2-above-face-value law is still on the books at the moment, it seems like the Globe has done the police force's work for them. We look forward to a sudden glut of affordable and available tickets. We also look forward to J.D. Drew hitting .750 in the Series.

But it could be worse; the Rockies couldn't even sell their tickets to Games Three and Four (oh, all right; and Game Five If Neccesary) because of what they're calling an "external malicious attack" on their website. They've already put the kibosh on the idea of letting people camp out, line up and buy tickets at the ballpark, so they're going to put fresh hamsters in the wheels and try to get their site back up and running today. We wanted to get local reaction, but the Denver Post website is either also a victim of an "external malicious attack" or their offices are buried under 12 feet of snow.

During the Cleveland series, we avoided talking about the "controversy" surrounding Indians pitcher Paul Byrd and his HGH use. We didn't care, because (a) he's a crafty pitcher, and we don't see how steroidesque drugs help one's craftiness; and (b) it's a bullcrap move to spring something like this before Game Seven and cause a media frenzy, even if the pitcher in question isn't pitching that day. And it's not because of something sinister like George Mitchell and baseball covering up for the Red Sox, at the New York Times seems to think. The horrible conspiracy to make the Red Sox look pure and innocent hasn't involved us. Just in case you were wondering.

The Bruins had no Sox game to compete with, so if you tuned in to watch a little hockey and see if the B's were as good as their 5-2 record, whoops. They got slapped around 6-1 in Montreal last night. The Bruins outshot the Canadiens 32-20, but Habs goalie Cristobal Huet (we love that name) stopped 31 of the 32. Tough to win games like that.

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