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It lies dormant sometimes, the way volcanos do. Mount Vesuvius, remember, was still and inactive for a thousand years. The citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum believed for centuries that they’d heard her last rumble. The citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum, alas, were incorrect.

And around 79 AD, Vesuvius showed them just how wrong they were.

Red Sox/Yankees is downright – is Vesuvian a word? Let’s make it a word – Vesuvian in that way. When you are in the middle of the chronic rumble, you have a hard time believing it will ever be quiet ever again. And then it does – a few years sometimes, a few decades, more – but we in New York and New England have learned our lessons.

It will be back.