PENNANT/PENNACE FEVER

HERE'S A JOKE THAT ART SEIGEL EMAILED ME:

You may not have noticed the problem facing Boston and New York area Jews next week. The upcoming critical Red Sox - Yankees series at Fenway Park starts the same night as Kol Nidre, the solemnest time of the Jewish calendar. This has put many local fans into a quandary.

A very distressed Red Sox fan goes to his rabbi.

"Rabbi," he says, "I don't know what to do. I know that tomorrow night is Kol Nidre, but the Red Sox are playing the Yankees and Pedro Martinez is pitching."

The rabbi smiles... "That's alright. It's for nights like this that God invented VCRs."

"Really?" the man said, his face lighting up, "I can tape Kol Nidre?"