David Brooks on Mark Shields

[Maxbialystock]

Today's NYTimes column on the occasion of Mark Shields final show on the PBS News Hour--

 

One story sticks in my mind. In 2004, the Red Sox fell behind the Yankees three games to none in the American League Championship Series. The Sox miraculously won the next four games and took the series. Mark went to a bunch of those games, including the final one at Yankee Stadium.

 

After that game Mark lingered in his seat. Memories flooded over him as sweet tears flowed — a lifetime of games with his mother and father, this magnificent victory they never got to see, the century of heartbreaks now overcome. Mark and the other Sox fans just sat there, refusing to leave, absorbing this new victorious feeling, a hint of justice in the universe.

 

I like to think that was God’s way of saying, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

[mvp 78]

Pass.