the answer isn’t going to surprise you, so we’ll go ahead and put it right out there.  Three little–powerful–words.  These words make the world go ’round, and you’ve probably heard them before.  They’re the subject of poets, of playwrights, of songs and epic tales.  People have lived and died for them.

The words?

disgruntled.  Sox. fans.

What, you were expecting something a little more…romantic?

See,  Martha Coakley, late of the Massachusetts Senate race crucial to healthcare reform, was busy dissing Scott Brown because Rudy Giuliani was campaigning with and for him.

Right there on the radio she spoke, which everyone in New England knows is like a Wicked Big Deal (since after all, people use it to talk about sports. Which in New England, is sort of like using it to disseminate air, or food, or basic shelter.)

Coakley bemoaned the state of the race, which any politico even as basic as we are can tell you was pretty much hers to lose. She pointed out that Giuliani is clearly bad because he’s a Yankees fan. (Unspoken, but deeply implied, was the conclusion that Scott Brown must thus also be spawn of the Evil Empire, or at least have some subtle pinstripes someplace.)

The radio host to whom she was speaking pointed out that Scott Brown’s also got Curt Schilling on his side, bloody sock and all (and what could be a more appropriate symbol, health-care wise?).

Coakley responded: “And another Yankees fan.”  Nobody knew what she meant. Wait, did she mean Schilling, the host asked?

Yes, she clarified. Yes she did.

Now, Curt is not a man to anger, cause see, there’s this box he has.  It used to hold soap, and he likes to stand on it and Make Pronouncements.

Like this:

“I’ve been called a lot of things…But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. Well, check that, if you didn’t know what the hell is going on in your own state maybe you could….”

ahem.

We’ll let this post (like Coakley’s campaign) end on that note.