No Kill I

Have you ever seen the old Star Trek episode The Devil in the Dark? In case you haven't let me briefly fill you in on the plot. Kirk, McCoy and Spock bean to down to some dark dingy cave planet (I think maybe it was a mining colony) to track down and eliminate some alien that's wreaking havoc on this dump, killing folks by the score. Well, it turns out that the monster is a great big glob of styrofoam... er stone, that lives in the mines/caves but really means no harm. The boys from the Enterprise discover this when they confront the stone monster and it writes 'No Kill I' on the wall or floor. Then Spock mind melds with the creature and yells out 'Pain! Paaaaiiin!!' in perhaps the most-over acted scene ever. (Which is a goddam tough thing to achieve in any show starring Bill Shatner).

Anyhoo.. the point of all this is as follows: since Terry Francona seems oblivious of the paaiiinnn he is causing, to me and other Red Sox fans, the time has come for mind meld to communicate this to him, along with perhaps some assistance with the lineup card.

No Kill I, Terry. No Kill I.