Thursday, October 21, 2004
RED SOX WIN!!
It's time to celebrate baby!!
The most anticipated game in sports history...The greatest collapse in sports history...The greatest comeback in sports history.
I heard all these things in the last 12 hours. It's a good day to be a Red Sox fan.
When my Red Sox went down 0-3 in the ALCS to the dreaded Yankees, everyone was telling me it was all over. I said, play it one game at a time and 4 games in a row don't seem like such a big deal, never been done before be damned.
When the RedSox were down 0-2 I made a bet with this girl I have been hanging out with. It's a bet I really wanted to win because of what was at stake (I won't go into the wager).
I didn't get to watch most of game 5 because I was working. I learned who won over the police radio, "Red Sox Win", "Wicked Awesome" and then a string of unauthorized radio trasmissions as Redsox and Yankee fan cops bickered over the police radio.
Game 6 I got to watch.
Game 7. I stupidly planned a dinner cruise around the harbor a couple weeks ago. Of course back then I wasn't thinking about baseball and game 7. After the cruise I rushed to the nearest bar I could find and found the RedSox to be up 8-1 in the 7th inning!!
2 innings later it was over!! The Bar Tender was a Red Sox fan and after the Red Sox won he played "we are the champions" on the stereo to the dismay of a bar full of Yankee fans. It couldn't have been any sweeter.
Turned out the girl I made the bet with didn't care about the Yankees, she only cared very seriously about winning the bet. She got mad at me because of the big smile on my face because in her non-sportfan mind, I was smiling and gloating about winning the bet. She didn't comprehend I was smiling because I love the Red Sox and have waited many many years to watch them defeat the Evil Empire and advance to the World Series. Once I explained that I wasn't gloating about beating her and that it was bigger than that she became a better sport about losing the bet.
This years RedSox team had a lot of character. The crazy hair styles. The long hair crazy hair wild unshaven look of the Red Sox Vs the boy scout looking Yankees.
The Red Sox needed to win for their fans. They are the greatest fans in baseball. In a sport that has litterally became a PASTtime that has lost its passion and has lost the young generation of Americans, Boston is the only real exception. Red Sox fans are still passionate and kids are actually into baseball.
I over heard this on TV.
"The Redsox are going to beat the Yankees"
"But what about the Curse"
"The Curse is a myth"
"Oh yea, then how do you explain Ben Affleck?"
Good question. Affleck is the latest incarnation of The Curse!!
It's time to celebrate baby!!
The most anticipated game in sports history...The greatest collapse in sports history...The greatest comeback in sports history.
I heard all these things in the last 12 hours. It's a good day to be a Red Sox fan.
When my Red Sox went down 0-3 in the ALCS to the dreaded Yankees, everyone was telling me it was all over. I said, play it one game at a time and 4 games in a row don't seem like such a big deal, never been done before be damned.
When the RedSox were down 0-2 I made a bet with this girl I have been hanging out with. It's a bet I really wanted to win because of what was at stake (I won't go into the wager).
I didn't get to watch most of game 5 because I was working. I learned who won over the police radio, "Red Sox Win", "Wicked Awesome" and then a string of unauthorized radio trasmissions as Redsox and Yankee fan cops bickered over the police radio.
Game 6 I got to watch.
Game 7. I stupidly planned a dinner cruise around the harbor a couple weeks ago. Of course back then I wasn't thinking about baseball and game 7. After the cruise I rushed to the nearest bar I could find and found the RedSox to be up 8-1 in the 7th inning!!
2 innings later it was over!! The Bar Tender was a Red Sox fan and after the Red Sox won he played "we are the champions" on the stereo to the dismay of a bar full of Yankee fans. It couldn't have been any sweeter.
Turned out the girl I made the bet with didn't care about the Yankees, she only cared very seriously about winning the bet. She got mad at me because of the big smile on my face because in her non-sportfan mind, I was smiling and gloating about winning the bet. She didn't comprehend I was smiling because I love the Red Sox and have waited many many years to watch them defeat the Evil Empire and advance to the World Series. Once I explained that I wasn't gloating about beating her and that it was bigger than that she became a better sport about losing the bet.
This years RedSox team had a lot of character. The crazy hair styles. The long hair crazy hair wild unshaven look of the Red Sox Vs the boy scout looking Yankees.
The Red Sox needed to win for their fans. They are the greatest fans in baseball. In a sport that has litterally became a PASTtime that has lost its passion and has lost the young generation of Americans, Boston is the only real exception. Red Sox fans are still passionate and kids are actually into baseball.
I over heard this on TV.
"The Redsox are going to beat the Yankees"
"But what about the Curse"
"The Curse is a myth"
"Oh yea, then how do you explain Ben Affleck?"
Good question. Affleck is the latest incarnation of The Curse!!
