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Well, with about 13 games to go the Sox are clinging to dear life for the AL East title. As we speak they've got an anorexic 1 1/2 game lead on the Yankees, and are definitely not playing their best baseball for sure. Whatever happens the rest of the way, we have a lot to look forward to for the future. I just watched the Major League debut of the young 21 year old Craig Hansen and man, it was impressive. A nice 3 up, 3 down inning with two K's and a popout against the Devil Dogs.

He's got fantastic stuff: a fastball in mid to high nineties and a great slider that's damn hard for a breaking ball. He's probably one more legit pitch away from being a front-end starter (my guess is he's working on a change-up).

Between him, Jonathan Papelbon and Manny Delcarmen; things are looking on the up for the Sox' pitching stable for the future.

What in the living hell is this?

As manner other residents of this quaint town will know, Worcester has its share of... oddities. One of my personal favorites is the American Sanitary Plumbing Museum. That's right... a museum dedicated to the many wonderful contraptions used in... evacuation. It's even located on Piedmont Street. An avenue made infamous back in the late 80's when the city put up a giant billboard that read "AIDS and Hepatitis B have not yet been contained int the Piedmont Area"

I pay homange to thee, ASPM. Only in Wormtown, baby.

It's another year gone from 9/11 again. Just like the past few anniversaries, it still seems like yesterday to me. One of the things I find myself doing since then is finding the stories of the local folks who died in the attacks. Most from New England were either on flight 11 or flight 175. Just tonight, I was looking through the passenger list for flight 175, and couldn't help but notice three people with the same last name:

• Peter Hanson
• Sue Hanson
• Christine Hanson

Immediately I thought "this must be a family that was together...". I read into it and I was right. These were regular folks like you or me taking a family trip to Disneyland with their 2 1/2 year old daughter: the youngest victim in the terrorist attacks. I'm having a hard time getting the image of that little girl out of my head.

Please take a minute to read a bit about the Hansons:

Hanson family tribute website
CNN page to Chistine Hanson
September 11th Wiki: Christine Hanson

Gilligan is dead. Long live Gilligan