Ed Randall host of WFAN's "Talking Baseball" spoke humorously about the Sox, the Yanks and his ongoing personal conflict with a second tier sport, evidently called "football", whose lords insist on playing their games when he would otherwise be on the air. Randall's best line of the day: "El Duque is so old that he remembers taking little Fidel Castro to buy his first Edgar Martinez glove." Trupiano's best line: BLOHARD EVP and heir apparent Jim Shea (who's also in the furniture business) "is offering the Frank Francisco special to all BLOHARDS. Buy a desk, and he'll throw in a chair for free." Powers' every word being transcendent, it is difficult to distinguish one brilliancy on his part from another. Suffice to say that only the subtlest of minds appreciated as much as a fraction of the import of his various pronouncements.

The affair concluded with a positively hilarious free-association-type account by esteemed BLOHARD Jane Wulff. Her story started with her pride in being "quoted" in a New Yorker article by Roger Angell. The "quote" in question was a four-letter vulgarity exclaimed, entirely appropriately, on the occasion of Ramon Hernandez' twelth inning bunt single at something like 3:00 AM east coast time last October the 2nd. Wulff, who recently celebrated a fiftieth birthday, went on to describe her perplexity when her mother failed to swell up with pride at her (Jane's) new-found celebrity, and then, somehow, the account veered off into the Monster seats where Wulff described catching a home run ball on the occasion of a birthday celebration only to be subjected to tremendous peer pressure to throw it back. To her credit (I guess) she demurred. Subsequently, she learned that no savvy fan goes to Wrigley without a cheap ball which can be thrown onto the playing field in the event that one is fortunate enough to catch a visiting player's Big Fly. Her audience thus having been both entertained and educated, Wulff departed the dais to a rapturous reception from the thronged BLOHARDs.