Pass the Matzoh

Ten o’clock at night, and the Dowbrigade is finally sitting
down at his computer, following an exhausting 12 hour day
chauffeuring around our younger son, first to a job interview in Quincy and then
helping him move into a new place in North Cambridge. We have the Red
Sox on the desk-side tube, but they are behind, 4-1, and we are paying
it scant attention.

However, it does remind us of a silly argument we heard on the car radio
while waiting for our son to load, or unload. The gang of knuckleheads
at WEEI were livid with theatrical outrage at an oil painting prominently
featured in the dining room of Red Sox outfielder and Jesus Christ lookalike
Johnny Damon’s dining room, as seen on the popular cable cult classic
"Celebrity Cribs" last night.

Said painting at first glance appears to be a reproduction of Da Vinci’s
Last Supper.  Appropriate enough, seeing as Passover is almost upon
us and the actual Last Supper was supposed to have been a Seder, and
by its placement in the dining room, a common affectation in religious
low-rent Latin households. Except that, on closer inspection, Jesus Christ
IS – how
did you guess,
Johnny
Damon!
– and
the disciples,
all
in Red
Sox
caps, include Terry Francona, Pedro Martinez and Jason Varitek.

Is this sacrilegious? In poor taste? Outrageously funny? Disrespectful
of the new Pope? A sly reference to blockbuster bestseller The Da vinci
Code? Did the players sign off on this project? The team? How could they put the name of the team in the URL otherwise? Is Damon the most popular guy on the world champions? Is he
the most conceited player in baseball? The topic really had the airwaves
heating up.

Personally, our taste in dining room art runs more towards the full-color,
life-sized realistic portraits by our buddy El Ciego in Lima of some of
the fighting cocks he has known and loved, painted from memory after
that tragic night in the henhouse when he passed out and hit his head
on a feeding chute on the way down, ending up unconscious with his head buried in
a pile of grain.

But we digress.  On the Trinitron Boston-Tampa Bay has actually
turned into a pretty interesting game; after being behind 4-1 in the
8th the Sox have clawed their way back, tying the score in the top of
the 9th. Opps! The game just ended after
ONE
pitch
from
Alan Embry in
the
bottom of the
ninth,
as Tampa Bay 1st baseman Eduardo Perez
rocketed
a
moonshot
into
the
thick
south
Florida
night.
Oh well, that’s baseball…..

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