Big Dick Booed In Bronx

I should admit, to people who don't know, that I'm a Boston Red Sox fan. That's an admission that, since it is tantamount to confessing that one is a masochist, can cost someone a political career, so it's a big deal.

Anyway, as a Red Sox fan, it is my duty/pleasure/curse to keep up with how the BoSox are faring. This week, they are playing the hated New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. The night of the 29th, the Yankees shellacqued the Good Guys. It was shameful, really.

However, in the midst of that awful, awful story, was this gem of (admittedly unrelated) hope: The crowd booed Big Dick Cheney. That's right. Big Dick Cheney (R-Potty Mouth) got booed during the seventh inning stretch.

By a crowd in the Bronx.

If you've never been to a game at The House That Ruth Built, you should know that lately, during the seventh inning stretch (itself an unwitting invention of Theodore Roosevelt), the people who run Yankee Stadium have shown famous people who are attending the game on the big screen. Well, Big Dick was there Tuesday night, hanging out with Steinbrenner (ally of Satan), and the stadium managers put his mug on the big screen. And the crowd reacted in such a way as to make you proud to call America your home: they booed and gave the oh-so-appropriate Bronx Cheer.

Cheney, who visited both clubhouses after batting practice, watched part of the game from the box of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and part from a first-row seat next to the Yankees dugout, where he sat between New York Gov. George Pataki and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Cheney was booed when he was shown on the right-field videoboard during the seventh-inning stretch.

I've never said it before (and likely won't again), but God bless you, Yankee fans.