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Weekend Update: Matt Damon and Seth Meyers on Coping with Losing

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The setup

Two seasoned Red Sox sufferers offer newly eliminated Yankees fans a smug crash course in surviving October without baseball.

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The premise

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After the Yankees are knocked out of the playoffs, Tina Fey invites Red Sox fans Seth Meyers and Matt Damon to the Weekend Update desk to offer consolation. Wearing Boston caps, the pair present years of disappointment as a qualification for counseling their rivals. Their advice ranges from controlling destructive impulses to finding another sport, appreciating autumn, and inventing someone to blame. Damon accidentally aggravates the crowd by suggesting the Jets as a substitute. The mock support session ends with Meyers spiraling through excuses while Damon comforts him in a parody of Good Will Hunting.

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