This midweek ‘relief’ piece has featured a number of things in the past, starting off with some equine humor, to providing a comprehensive, if scantily-clad, public service announcement mini-series and most recently, some build up the that football game on Sunday. Now the word Relief has various possible uses, but the most common can be defined as: The easing of a burden or distress or Something that alleviates pain or distress or even A pleasant or amusing change. 

This week, G-t-W will simply stick to the facts and the plain and clear definition listed above, as events yesterday accomplished those three things, at least for me.  Selfish, absolutely.  So without further preample, I present the following piece of art.

(courtesy of Matt Cerone from Metsblog.com)

In closing though, this column was founded on the principle of presenting fair and balanced reporting, by providing a place to feature the stupid and immature.  And to some, the above qualifies.   But I’m more into making fun of others and what they like, so instead I turn the focus to the “upcoming” book put forth by the Boston Globe and, as of yesterday, on pre-sale at amazon.com: 19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England's Unbeatable Patriots.  Yes the link, which worked yesterday, does not work anymore.  But if you checked yesterday, you could have pre-ordered the collector’s item above for (and I quote) the “bargain price of $14.95.”  I’m imaging perhaps a little negative feedback might have caused the link to be disabled by Amazon, but too little to late.  If there is such a thing as jinxes, and that is something Boston fans claim to be true, it will rear its ugly head on Sunday...