Before this week's World Series rematch of the Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals, I called my friend Brian - a die hard Cardinals fan and creator of the excellent, but now defunct Redbird Nation site - and said "I just wanted to say good luck: this is by far the most important series that these two teams will ever play. A mid-week interleague series in June. I hope we can still be friends."

After the Cardinals took the first game, Brian wrote me an email saying simply "We're even."

To which I responded, "Forget it. I don't think we can be friends anymore. Every time I look at you, I'll see that Morris/Sanders suicide squeeze (which I'm sure will come to be known in baseball lore as "The Play" because of the sheer magnitude of the consequences.)"

Brian wrote back, "He's Reggie Fucking Sanders in New England now, right? And I have a blown-upcopy of 'The Play' in a frame over my mantelpiece."

No point to this story, really. I just thought it was funny.