If today's Monday Fix seems a little TV-heavy it's because there was a lot of action on the flat screen this weekend. Sports, politics (I guess that's on TV all the time now) and dancing moose, this weekend had it all.

ITEM 1: Sox Nation in Mourning?

It's a solemn day in Red Sox nation after the Rays victory last night. Thanks to the power of Twitter we can see how fans felt during the game and how they are coping in the aftermath.

Also, if many of you were wondering what the heck happened Saturday night when the beginning of Game 6 disappeared and reruns of "The Steve Harvey Show" appeared, TBS apparently had a bit of a technical meltdown. If the people in the bar I was at were any indication, the Nation must not have been happy. (*Note - I was at the bar to watch my Missouri Tigers get smoked by Texas. I do not want to discuss this further.)

ITEM 2: Whipping up the youth vote

- With just over two weeks until election day, the push is switching from reaching and registering voters to getting them out to the polls. On the University of Maine campus the campus Democrats and Republicans are putting differences aside and whipping up the voters. We can probably expect to see more in the next week.

ITEM 3: Palin goes 'Live'

- In case you missed it (or were still high on the Sox Game 6 win), Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made her apperance on "Saturday Night Live" this past weekend and scored some high ratings for "SNL" in the process.
Palin appeared in the open along with Tina Fey, Alex Baldwin, Lorne Michaels and...Mark Wahlberg? She also popped up during Weekend Update for what will go down in political history as "The Palin Rap.*" (*as not performed by Sarah Palin.)

I'd be interested to hear what you thought about the Republican vice presidential nominee's turn on the show.

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