Coming neck-and-neck down to the finish line in the race for the weirdest story to come out of the Boston Marathon ... it's the astronaut running 26.2 miles while tethered to a treadmill on the international space station and the man who completed the race while dressed in Yankees garb as a form of social experiment.

And with all due respect to Sunita "Suni" Williams' battling a virtual Heartbreak Hill while hurtling through space at 17,500 miles per hour, I'm giving my nod to the faux Yankees fan.

Because while merely completing a marathon is impressive enough, doing it while dodging insults from hundreds (if not thousands) of drunk Red Sox fans requires real guts. Besides, Williams was the only runner who didn't have to brave the elements on Monday -- and who'd have ever thought that the rest of this sentence would ever be written? -- getting to run the race in the relative comfort of zero gravity.

Now, that being said, I really have to question the scientific value behind Tim Gorman's little experiment. Was there really ever any doubt that Gorman -- a self-professed Red Sox fan -- was going to receive a steady stream of obscenities and "Yankees suck!" chants? What did this endeavor actually accomplish (other than providing Gorman with a freelance opportunity and myself with a blog topic for the day)?

It's really almost as bad as the recent study that determined Chinese food was bad for you. Like it took a team of scientists to come to the conclusion that battered, fried chicken with extra helpings of sodium and MSG doesn't exactly qualify as health food.