Steve Shaw knows what would happen to him
if he were so careless as to talk like that
in a bar in the middle of "Red Sox Nation."

This week is one of those singular weeks, by the way:
all four of Boston's BIG-BUSINESS pro sports are engaged.
(Boston has a professional black-and-white-spherical football team,
but big business they are not)

The Bruins have started their ice hockey appearances
(I cringe at the sight of the ice on the restaurant television screens,
please, don't remind me of last winter already),

The Celtics, pronounced Boston Seltics, have got their
green jerseys on and are starting their basketball games,

The New England Patriots have begun another juggernaut,

and the Boston Red Sox are in play.

All four big-business franchises in the same week.
All with loud muscular followings here.
Only happens during so many weeks in a year.