Well, Josh Beckett has struck out the first 3 batters and Dustin Pedroia hit a home run on the first pitch!  Sounds like a great start to the World Series to me.  Don’t worry, I won’t be giving an inning by inning report but wanted to give you a couple tips to make your World Series experience more enjoyable.

If you need Red Sox gear (I just had some 2nd day UPSed to me)  make sure you get it from the

 

Also, if you need to bone-up on the words to Tessie, the Sox “fight song,” you can get the lyrics (and the story) here.  And watch the Dropkick Murphy’s video.

Many religions have tried to explain the 144,000 mentioned in the book of Revelation.  Some have taken this number literally and contend that this is the exact number of people who will get to Heaven.  Others see this number as more of a symbolic number.  I look to other references in Revelation, namely the Mark of the Beast, and submit my theory for your approval:  the 144,000 represents the actual number of people left in the world who don’t have the Mark of the Beast, which we all know is representative of tattoos.

Personally, I still belong to the 144,000 but I’m thinking of getting ink done.  Look, when you’ve got 80-year old grandmas with tats , it makes me think I might be a little pansy.  In an effort to seem a little more hip, I decided that instead of getting inked, I’d just join Facebook instead.  For some reason, it seems a little less “13-year old girl” than MySpace but it could just be that I’ve only been on Facebook for a day.  One thing it has going for it is that it looks better on my Blackberry than MySpace does which means I can write on my friends’ wall while I’m supposed to be paying attention to the speaker at the $1,000 conference my employer sent me to.  And I like the fact that I don’t have to explain to people why, despite the fact that I haven’t seen them in 15 years, they aren’t in my “top friends” list.

Which brings up this point:  is your self esteem boosted when that chick you knew from high school “confirms you are friends” or is that just me?