From the Halls of Montezuma.

to trying to get a thirty-six year-old-man to get on a bus in Los Angeles.

Edes has a piece about Terry Francona's son, Nick, who graduated from Quantico last summer as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps and is likely to be deployed to Afghanistan soon enough. I don't do politics here but the best of luck to him.

The reason to bring it up is Nick's quote about the difference between managing a baseball team and managing a Marine platoon:

"There's a difference, though, between $10 million ballplayers and Marines making $10,000 a year, they don't have Manny Ramirezes in the Marine Corps. They just don't exist. In baseball, you can't just tell them what to do. In the Marine Corps, you say jump, they say, 'How high?"'

Do you think Francona did some complaining about his job over the breakfast table?

Also, the picture is fabulous.