MARLINS IN SIX: Congratulations to the 2003 World Champion Florida Marlins, who defeated the Yankees in six games Saturday night to win the second world championship in the franchise's 11-year history (and in just their second winning season.) I watched the final game of the postseason the way I did the first- in the bleachers. Not the real ones, but fake ones set up to approximate the Stadium in Rockefeller Center, where the game played on a giant screen, and after the loss I had to hear the lamentations of Yankee fans who have now gone three whole years without a world championship. Honestly, my heart just bleeds for them.
It's been said that Florida manager Jack McKeon may now retire; If the Marlins insist on continuing to employ a septuagenarian skipper, I hear Don Zimmer might be looking for a job.
Normally in this situation I would call up people I know to congratulate them on their team winnng, as I would if the champion had been the Red Sox, Cubs, or even the Yankees. But the thing is, I don't know a single Florida Marlins fan; until I hear otherwise (and until they draw more than a 50% crowd to a regular season game), I'll just assume such creatures are mythical.