You don't have to be a blood relative but you do have to be an appropriate blood-type match.

It makes the operation and the actual procedure more appealing to potential donors.

Over the past several years, this (advance) has enabled us to do this from wife to husband, friend to friend, cousin to cousin.

On rare occasions, someone will call up and say they would like to donate a kidney to someone they don't know.

This is the biggest yet of the Red Sox-Yankees series in the three years that I've been here. Even bigger than Opening Day this year, when we had the ring ceremony.

Theo appreciates the support, but of course he will not be attending. We were all surprised to see the media coverage this good-natured exchange generated.