Murray Chass Digs Dane Cook

Do you love Dane Cook yet? Are you buying Tourgasm DVD's by the dozen? Lining your closets with t-shirts adorning that weird shocker symbol he always does? Did you take major umbrage at Saturday Night Live's overdue spoof?

Fear not, lover of Dane and lover of baseball. Murray Chass what the kids want: More Dane Cook!

There is only one postseason, there is only one October and there is only one star. His name is Dane Cook.

The pace was hectic, especially combined with Cook's other pursuits, but the job could not have been more enjoyable for a genuine baseball fan.

"I have a love of the game, and I love what I do, and even though I'm tired, I wake up ready to go and I'm enthusiastic," Cook said. "I just make sure I drink water and get some sleep during the day."

"Major League Baseball has hooked me up," said Cook, who grew up in Arlington, Mass. "I've gone to about 15 games since I've been in Boston. They've been great about getting me to games. I said I'll basically do this for nothing if you can get me the two seats my dad and I sat in in St. Louis, and they did."

That is what you would call a friendly review. A far more annoyed viewer might call Cook's commercials irritating, frustrating, worthy of a sharpened railroad spike to the temple ... something like that. But such viewers would obviously be incorrect, because when Murray Chass says you are are cool, you are most definitely cool. Way cool.