Red Sox Nation has its own police force

From today's Boston Globe:

Federal authorities are investigating whether the head of the US Marshals Service in Boston assigned deputy marshals, normally charged with tracking fugitives and protecting judges, to ferry Fox Sports broadcasters Tim McCarver and Joe Buck between their hotel and Fenway Park during last year's World Series.

Investigators are looking into whether the deputy marshals activated their blue lights to cut through traffic as the sellout crowd jammed the streets around the ballpark. The deputy marshals allegedly flashed their badges to gain entrance to the park, according to those familiar with the probe.

First of all, let me say, it is a huge relief that we have a sports corruption scandal that doesn't involve steroids being injected into Roger Clemens' ass...or Roger Clemens doing some injecting with a 15-year-0ld country western singer. This is some good, old-fashioned, family-friendly corruption that all Americans can rally behind.

Later in the story, the Globe reports that one of the agents had misgivings about abusing their authority in this way. Bullcrap! These two marshals got to watch a World Series game from the pressbox at Fenway and hang out with the TV announcers. No one gets hurt by this action, and I am very surprised someone even noticed.

But someone did notice, and now there is a big investigation. I can imagine a Tommy Lee Jones-like Chief Marshal saying: "I want to search every pressbox, batter's box, coach's box, and catcher's box, until we get to the bottom of this."

My biggest objection is that these marshals are in hot water after escorting two of baseball's lousiest announcers. Seriously, FOX, is this the best you can do for the World Series? I usually flip on the radio during the World Series to hear John Miller.