dan joins me now, along with brent o conner, who was feet away from the explosion. dan, your feelings about what this means to boston, the marathon, to this country. >> patriots day in boston, it's a very unique thing. nobody goes to work. nobody goes to school. the red sox play a game at 11:00 in the morning. it's a boston only event. it's always been sacred and a very inclusive event. the people finishing that race, that's every man at the finish line. they're not elite runners. this hit hard and hit at home. >> you put the crepe up there, >>> we're back now with "boston globe" sports columnist dan shaughnessy. he describes yesterday as one of our best days is forever tainted. the 117-year-old boston marathon will never be the same and there goes another piece of our freedom and another sacred institution. dan joins me now, along with brent o conner, who was feet away from the explosion. dan, your feelings about what this means to boston, the marathon, to this country. >> patriots day in boston, it's a very unique thing. nobody goes to work. nobody goes to school.

dan joins me now, along with brent o conner, who was feet away from the explosion. about what this means to boston, the marathon, to this country. >> patriots day in boston, it's a very unique thing. nobody goes to work. nobody goes to school. the red sox play a game at 11:00 in the morning. it's a boston only event. it's always been sacred and a very inclusive event. the people finishing that race, that's every man at the finish line. they're not elite runners. this hit hard and hit at home. >> you put the crepe up there, but my sense is next year, you'll have just as many entries. do you think it's going to have a permanent mar? do you think we're going to have a permanent bad aspect to something as great at the marathon? >> people are going to remember this. it will have an association with the marathon, but the marathon, i think the mayor said it, bigger and better than ever. a lot of people are going to go out and run. they're not going to let this take away a great boston institution. >> let's talk about the rivalry, when somebody sold babe ruth to the yankees