For baseball fans, Wednesday night was a bit like switching back and forth between cliffhanger movies. What made it even more satisfying was that all my desired outcomes - which seemed not only unlikely but utterly impossible at one point (the Red Sox playing the last-place Orioles; the Rays down 7-0 against the fat cat Yankees - eventually and dramatically came to be.
Though it wasn't until yesterday morning that I grasped the full beauty of the night, as I thought of all the devastated TV executives now deprived of a potential Yankees-Red Sox playoff.