Paul Keleher was at Gillette yesterday.

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Father Tim Schenck of Hingham passes along word that Tom Brady tops the list of athletes consigned to hell by some Baptist church in North Carolina - where the minister is also planning a gala Halloween barbecue and book burning to destroy Satanic works, such as those written by Billy Graham, Mother Theresa - and non-King James Version bibles. Yes, a church is going to burn bibles.

Via Ellen Rossano.

The Herald has today's top bizarro story about a guy panhandling to raise enough money to repay the Patriots quarterback for a couple of flowerpots he was convicted of stealing from one of Brady's pied a terres. Guy claims the flowerpots were in the trash; DA and the judge said otherwise.

Seems Brady was kayaking in the Charles and he fell in and this woman helped fish him out, thus saving the entire 2009 Patriots' season.

Hey, remember when Nomar Garciaparra dived into Boston Harbor to save some woman who'd fallen in?

Cassel to the Chiefs, just like Vrabel.

Angela keeps repeating: In Bill I trust.

Why did Tom Brady have a rotten season? Why won't he be the same when he returns in August? According to Dan Shaughnessy, it's because he's gone soft. And he hasn't gone soft by sniffing wildflowers and professing his love for kittens in meter and rhyme; no, the real reason is because (and please make sure you're sitting down before your eyes behold the startling truth) Gisele Bundchen was feeding him during their Mexican vacation.

Hey, look at Brady and Bledsoe. Don Martelli explains why it might make sense.

Channel 4: Brady may not be 100 percent for 2009.

Matthew Gilbert writes...

Howie must be working on another book about the Bulgers, or maybe he spent too much time at Fenway with Castig and Obie last night, because based on the amount of time he put into today's CHB-like column about loser Patriots fans, he clearly is too busy to do any actual reporting for the Herald. Or maybe, he just needs a hug.

Beth: It's not the same as Oct. 17, 2003, but these past couple days, for at least a minute or two, some people have had a faraway look in their eyes.

Adam Pieniazek will not be deterred; predicts the Patriots will win the Super Bowl.

Lewis Forman explains how the Fenway sold-out record has come at the cost of a piece of the soul of Sox fandom:

... It's less of a game and more a destination. It becomes classic blue hats vs. pink hats instead of right handed relief vs. left handed relief. Clam Chowder vs. gourmet pizza instead of a hot dog vs. a box of popcorn. People watching vs. GAME watching.

Papel-blog comes back from an extended blogging break:

The Red Sox are engaged in a three-game set to determine who will emerge in first place in the AL East, and I can't spend the duration of the series making jokes about Derek Jeter's sexual orientation in order to cope. And judging from what went down in Foxboro on Sunday, football is not going to be the stress-reducing distraction from the pennant race that it has been in previous years.

Kristen writes:

I would like to personally thank the Red Sox for at least temporarily, lifting the spirits of a grieving region. Jason Bay would not want us to cry, people. Jason Bay would want us to be happy. And Jonathan Papelbon would probably make some obscene sock puppets to get us laughing again if he thought that'd work. ...

And, of course, no matter what, we'll always have Debbie CHB Downer to tell us what to think:

Dan likes to portray New England fans as little more than infantile sycophants with a lack of perspective. ...

Indeed, harrumphs Soxaholix:

... Let me get this straight, the same fans who endured 86 years of Red Sox futility *and* years of the Patriots as also rans "are lost boys and lost girls"? ...