Inside Track - It’s “Lights, Camera, Idiots!” for HBO, which is making a six-part miniseries about the 2004 World Champion Red Sox[ team stats], a dramatization of the storybook season that finally brought an end to Boston’s miserable 86-year World Series drought. Based on the Stephen King/Stewart O’Nan book “Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season,” the miniseries will feature actors portraying real-life Red Sox heroes Johnny Damon, Curt Schilling [ stats], Theo Epstein, David Ortiz[ stats], Kevin Millarand the rest of the merry band of Idiots.

“I think it’s a great story to do, a story that transcends sports,” producer and Sox co-owner Tom Werner told the Track. “I think we can make a movie that is not just attractive to sports fans, but to people who don’t really follow baseball, and I think that will be good for baseball and good for the Red Sox too.” Werner said he has already cast the miniseries - in his head.

 “Adrian Grenier will play Theo, James Woods will play John Henry, Clive Owen will play Larry Lucchino and George Cloon

Six parts!    Are you shitting me?   This is what makes me hate the new ownership group.   They can never leave well enough alone.   First of all, I feel like you need to wait 20 years before you start making videos about championship seasons.  Everybody should be retired before a movie like this is made.   It seems pretty freaking lame to be making this movie 10 minutes after you won the thing and all the players are still active.   And do you really need to make this a miniseries?  Shouldn’t this be like a 1 hour documentary on HBO with real highlights and real players and real interviews?     This is just another dumb idea that makes people hate Red Sox fans and Red Sox fans hate Red Sox Fans.  Enough already.