Hey, Matsu Ball! You’re the Imperial Navy, the Yankees are the Baltic fleet and Fenway Park is Tsushima.
Not even a $100 million can buy you love, but it can buy you attention and I for one welcome Boston’s newly purchased Japanese Red Sox fans. Sure, they’ll drive the price of scalped tickets even closer to the moon, or perhaps the sun, but they’ll also spend money on hotels and restaurants like there’s no tomorrow. And to them it will all seem like a bargain. You can’t ask for better tourists than that.
Here’s what I suggest we do in an attempt to truly impress visitors from the Benign Empire: No littering in Kenmore Square! I know, it sounds crazy, even unconstitutional, that you would put whatever litter you’re holding in your hand in a trash bin instead of just casually dropping it on the ground, but let’s try it, shall we?
