Yet this is a happy time for Arizona, where the team with the worst record in the National League playoffs has conquered several of the best and will be playing in the World Series starting tomorrow.  It's the second time around for the Diamondbacks, who won it in 2001, just a couple months after 9/11, and were a bright spot then in an otherwise dismal world.  I went to three games, including once as the guest of a client.  This time, I'll watch on TV screens about ten times the size of what we had back then.  

In 2001 we beat the Yankees, the sentimental favorite because New York was Ground Zero for the attacks that took about as many lives as die in US traffic accidents every month.  NYC was the home of "The Nation's Mayor" -- remember him?  This time around, the opposing team is from Texas, which could be said to have "The Nation's Attorney General."  But let's not talk about scandal and corruption.  Let's just enjoy the game.