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[wickedflea]

I thought I was going to go insane on the bus this morning. Apparently, New Haven is on the dividing line between Red Sox territory and Yankees territory. Those two teams have a big series coming up this weekend, and the bus was abuzz with trash talk this morning. People were yelling from one end of the bus to the other, "Sox haven't won a series in EIGHTY-THREE YEARS!" "I don't give a shit -- they're gonna win it this year!" That part wasn't so bad, but there was a woman sitting in the middle of the bus -- right in front of me -- who was doing her best to participate in the conversation, but nobody was paying any attention to her. Except me. All during this high-volume, cross-bus argument over the relative merits of the Red Sox and the Yankees, this woman was interspersing -- also at high volume -- her own commentary:

"What about the Mets? The Mets are pretty good. Yeah, I like the Mets. But I don't really like baseball. I like car races. And the Kentucky Derby! Yeah, the Kentucky Derby. I like it because you can get interested in it. You know, someone wins, someone loses, and it's over with. Usually, a horse wins."