Yesterday was a day for both praise and shame for the city of Boston –

THE PRAISE: BOSTON WINS WORLD SERIES — AGAIN!

The Red Sox outscored Colorado 29-10 in a four-game sweep to complete their second World Series Championship sweep in four years. As the headline reads to the right, the Red Sox are “THE BEST!”

Apparently “Manny being Manny” has a positive affect on winning league championships. Funny how that works out.

Boston’s winning formula has set them up to be successful for years to come. In 2004, they won the World Series with veteran hitting and pitching; this time around, they added talented youth to their arsenal. So right now, just for argument’s sake, we will say it takes roundabout $140 million to buy big bats, solid pitching and a fruitful farm system. (Normally I’d argue to the point of the Rockies making it as far as they did with a $54 million payroll but… they didn’t seem to put up much of a fight to prove they deserved the chance)

Oh yeah — it helps to have a coach like Terry Francona, who now has an 8-0 record in World Series games.

So to BoSox fans, I say the obvious — The “Curse of the Bambino” is no more, so please forgive Bill Buckner, Grady Little, that pinstriped suit your grandpa used to wear on Sundays, your ex-wives and ex-husbands, that un-lucky rabbit’s foot, Scott Boras, Nomar Garciaparra, Satan, George “Dubyah” Bush, and anyone else you used to blame for holding you back.

As a Washingtonian, I can only hope the Lerner Group has been taking notes on the BoSox successes, and try to emulate that winning formula.

So, congratulations to the fans of the MLB champs but if you can improve on one thing — just this one thing and I’ll leave you be… till next spring — please, oh please, get rid of those newbie fans with the fresh green ball caps! I’ll be forever grateful and that should mean a lot to you and yours, of course.

THE SHAME: BILL BELICHICK IS MORE THAN A CHEAT — HE’S A CHUMP

Has someone so privileged ever been so ungrateful before, ever? When a player shows off “excessive celebration,” he is hit with a large fine by the league to humble players into thinking the league isn’t run by cocky, over-talented, under-appreciative players. How goes it for the over-talented, under-appreciative coaches?

What happens when a coach thinks he’s above the league rules and shows off by blatantly cheating after being warned? And then, after receiving a relatively light slap on the wrist for punishment, the coach acts as if a great injustice was done to him and vows to take it out on any and every one possible?

Apparently it turns you into a disrespectful, classless human being. Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s choice to go for two first-down conversions while holding a 30+ lead in a complete and utter blow-out was a despicable bully-move. And after the game he acted offended, asking, “What did you want us to do, kick a field-goal?”

Wow, what a chump. I guess if the game were played against his bitter rival, Eric Mangini, the outrage would be different. But in this case, Belichick took out his frustration and rage on a respectable, Hall of Fame coach in Joe Gibbs.

It is this conceitedness that makes for bad karma.

I don’t normally condone bad deeds as payback — because I don’t blame the players for executing the gameplan their coach called — but in this case the only way the dirtiest, most ungrateful coach in the NFL will learn is to lose something close to him… maybe a certain star player, perhaps. Only then would Belichick finally understand what it means to be humble.

Events like this in life have a way of finding their way back around to the bad-deed-doer. It’s Belichick’s karmic disadvantage. What goes around comes around.

I respect Skins coach Joe Gibbs for lying to the media, saying the Patriots coach die nothing out of the ordinary or disrespectful. But how many more classy, old school coaches are there in this league? With as many pride-filled professional, grown athletes in the NFL, someone is bound to snap. When a coach decides to rub a win in an opponent’s face they shouldn’t act too surprised when they start getting “unfairly� attacked during games.

Sure, fans, teammates, players and coaches realize the NFL players’ obligation to stop the other team. The same rule applies when an over-confident, ungrateful player or coach forgets how to show class and desperately needs a slice of humble pie.