"Terry... Terry... Terry Francona!!"
"What? Huh?!? Where am I?"
"You're at the team hotel in Baltimore. We open our season today. Remember?"
"Oh yeah, baseball. Man, you won't believe the dreams I had last night. A-Rod hitting a game-winning home run after eating bad sushi in Japan. Us clobbering Baltimore in our opener 11-1. Then some computer clitch causing an end to our season in early April."
"What?"
"For real -- Bud Selig was at this press conference, saying that something called an "Invalid Player File" was going to cause the 2004 season to come to an end. I think the Milwaukee Brewers were going to be declared the undisputed 2004 World Champions or something like that. It was crazy."
"Dude -- what did you eat last night? And you know A-Rod didn't hit any homers in Japan. He's oh-for after his first two games, and the Yankees didn't even win one of those games..."
"It must have been some bad pizza or something..."
"Well, let's get going. We have a season to start -- and a World Series to win!"
"Sounds good to me. I love baseball..."
