Rest in peace, Babe Ruth

So much for that nonsense.

One impressive thing about this year's Red Sox team is how much baseball they played with two outs. When you are a kid, you hate to go to the plate with two outs. You don't want to make the third out but it seems almost inevitable. Your buddies in the dugout show their confidence in you by getting their gloves and catcher's gear ready to go on the field. But the Red Sox did a lot of hitting and scoring with two out. They also came back from the abyss, three games down, to win the next eight games. Maybe it had something to do with the terrible pounding they got in Game Three against the Yankees, which goes to show that it doesn't pay to humiliate somebody who makes his living with a baseball bat.

I disagree with today's Boston Globe. Pigs still can't fly, hell has not frozen over. But they got it partly right: The Impossible Dream can come true. Even if you have to wait a lifetime.