Jailed fan gets conjugal visit with Red Sox in Kansas City

Perhaps I've been wildly misled about this whole jail thing, but I was under the impression that being behind bars and missing out on the simpler pleasures in life was pretty much the whole point of being punished. To my surprise, that's apparently that's not the case in Iowa. On Wednesday, a judge in Van Buren County let Randy Barker out of jail so that the 'diehard' Red Sox fan (right) could go see Boston's 9-2 win over the Royals in Kansas City with his father and brother. Barker had been in the middle of serving two concurrent 10-day jail sentences for violation of a protective order on another man in Keosauqua — the Des Moines Register has the details — but magistrate Benny Waggoner still thought it'd be OK for the family to pick up Randy, use the tickets they had purchased earlier and then return him after seeing Josh Beckett(notes) up close. (No word on whether or not Barker was able to get a few orders of short ends and a large strawb...