Sox sitting pretty

Of course it is less than two months into the long Major League Baseball season, but right now the Red Sox have the best record in either league, with a 10-game lead on the Orioles and Yankees in the AL East. Wow.

Boston's baseball crew leads the American League in both batting average and earned run average, and the Sox have been as successful on the road as they have been at Fenway Park. With Papi and Manny, Dice-K and Papelbon, they are a fun team to watch.

Being lifelong Sox fans, we are quite aware that there are 122 games left in the regular season, and we lived through 1978's squandering of a 14-game lead in July. But we've won the Series since then and these guys don't carry any of the "Curse" baggage. It should be a fun summer. Play ball!