Be sure to click on the unintentionally funny video of Doug Most, the Sunday maggy's editor. With a thin-lipped weak smile, he runs through the brilliant and exacting criteria for Bostonian of the year.

This person first of all had to have achieved something significant. With the economics chaos dominating our world, a ball player qualified because...because...because, well, he distracted us by making us feel good about one of our local teams.

I'm inspired.