Chris Dodd is going to a Red Sox game alone.

Chris Dodd was going to go to the ALCS with one of his lucky supporters. That's not going to happen now:

Dodd, a longtime Red Sox fan, offered a chance at the tickets to anyone who donated $20.04 to his campaign, an amount selected because the Sox last won the World Series in 2004.

The raffle winner would have received two tickets to Game 6 of the American League Championship Series against the Cleveland Indians. Had the Red Sox won before Game 6, the winner would have received tickets for Game 2 of the World Series instead.

There were two catches: The winner had to sit with Dodd at the game and, if the Red Sox were eliminated, the baseball tickets would be replaced with airfare to a Dodd campaign event in Iowa or New Hampshire.

That would feel like going the baseball game with an uncle that you never really see, but for some reason your dad couldn't go with you, so it's just you and your uncle, and you have nothing to talk about for 9 innings, and the drive home with him is like 45 minutes of silence. Just like that.

Full article from Courant.