The American Spectator

Washington Prowler

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"The idea of missing a Yankees-Red Sox series right before a convention week was not acceptable, so we changed the policy," Kerry told reporters.

Kerry, though, is apparently no Red Sox fan. Over the past few weeks, Kerry has claimed that his favorite Red Sox player growing up was Eddie Yost, who never actually played for Boston. Even famously liberal baseball pundit Peter Gammons, a New Englander, no less, was disgusted enough by the pandering to point out that embarrassing error.

According to a campaign staffer, Kerry was prepped on the plane from Ohio on the team's current players and manager, just in case he was interviewed during the game by ESPN, which was covering the game live. "He hasn't been paying attention, though he says he's a fan," says a campaign staffer on the ground in Boston. "But to the best of my knowledge, he's never inquired about the Sox, how they are doing, that kind of thing."

It wasn't just a love of the game that got Kerry to Fenway, campaign workers could be seen before the game on Yawkey Way loading "Sox Fans for Kerry" signs into boxes to be handed out in the stands to fans willing to hold them up during the game.

But less than 20 minutes after the game had started, a number of signs could be seen in the trash receptacles throughout the park, and Kerry volunteers were quickly picking them up so that photographers couldn't take pictures of them.

p> KERRY CENSORS CLINTONS br> Word is that tensions between Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Kerry campaign continue apace, as the Kerry folks have asked to see the prepared remarks of both Clintons before they hit the theater in the round type stage on Monday. /p> p>"We're not so worried about the content, as much as we are worried about the length," says a Kerry adviser at the Fleet Center Sunday afternoon. "We were hearing that Hillary's introduction of the president was upwards of 15 minutes long. That's unacceptable. We just want this thing to go smoothly." br> /p>

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