More Sox Stuff
Originally written on 11/2/04
Just a jumble of stuff I've seen, read, heard, or thought of over the last few days.
I woke up Thursday morning and the Boston Red Sox were World Champions. Uh, I did wake up, right?
Next Year's Now!
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine - REM
Where the hell was Derek Lowe during the regular season? Actually, who the hell cares? He picked the right time to come back.
"Don't let us win tonight. This is a big game. They've got to win because if we win, we've got Pedro coming back and then Schilling will pitch Game 6 and then you can take that fraud stuff and put it to bed. Don't let the Red Sox win this game." - Kevin Millar before game 4 of the ALCS.
To all the "other" baseball fans who just wanted to see a good World Series, and to the networks who wanted more than 4 games, sorry it didn't happen, but here in the Nation we really don't care. After 86 years, we just wanted it done and over with. We've had enough drama, thank you.
I'm still not tired of hearing "Tessie".
CURSE CLOSED - Bradenton Herald (Fla) front page headline
Kudos to the City of Boston, the Red Sox, and the 3.2 million members of Red Sox Nation for keeping it all under control during the largest celebration in the history of the city.
I realized when I got home on Saturday that I had just spent 5 hours outside on a raw, wet, and miserable day, and not once did it occur to me while I was out there that it was a raw, wet, and miserable day.
Congrats. Now shut the fuck up. - e-mail to ESPN columnist and Sox fan Bill Simmons (and I believe addressed to all of Red Sox Nation) from a guy in Washington D.C.
When I'm 85 years old I hope I look as dapper and dignified as Johnny Pesky.
I think it's very difficult to give the World Series MVP to one guy on that team. Since it had to be done, Manny was certainly a good choice, but my vote would have gone to Keith Foulke. He finished all 4 games, with a win in game 1 and a save in game 4. He basically turned each game into an 8 inning affair for the Cards. That puts a lot of pressure on them to put some runs on the board the later it got. They knew if they didn't get that lead by the eighth they were done. Not quite Mo Rivera in his prime, but not very far off.
I love winning man, I fuckin' love winning. Ya hear what I'm sayin', it's like better than losin'? - Nuke Laloosh, Bull Durham.
Hats off to the Cardinals and their fans. That's a great baseball team, a great baseball city, and the fans are first class.
Wait `til This Year. - Sign at Fenway
The Red Sox winning the World Series was on the front page of many national and local publications, and the lead story in many national and local news shows in the entire country Thursday morning. This, despite the fact that Kerry and Bush were locked in a dead heat with only 5 days left until the election.
Theo Epstein is brilliant.
Francona was right to stick with Bellhorn (as I had been saying all along), despite the cries of Red Sox Nation for Pokey. Had he given in, there's a good chance I would not have been running around the city screaming my head off at "duckboats" on Saturday.
With his breakthrough procedure on Schilling's ankle, Sox Medical Director Bill Morgan played as big a role in this as any of the players.
Congrats guys! Now what do we talk about? - MCM
In a Framingham coffee shop yesterday morning, an elderly man softly asked a customer if he could see her newspaper. When the woman held up the front page, emblazoned with news of the Red Sox victory, the man stared in silence, touched his eyes, and began to cry. - From Friday's Globe
`BOUT TIME - New York Post back page headline (a bit of grudging respect)
A lot of people are saying that we've lost our identity now. We're no longer members of a tragic nation. Now we're just regular fans and eventually we're going to resent it. I say bah. I compare it to when I used to be a fat man. That was an identity that I wanted to get rid of so I could just be a regular guy, and when I finally did, I didn't miss it at all and I never want to experience it again. Good riddance.
John Henry fucking rocks!
Red Sox Aftershock Syndrome (RSAS)- A spontaneous act of celebration, which occurs after the sudden realization that the Boston Red Sox have won the World Series. It can happen anywhere at anytime, and will usually involve an otherwise seemingly normal human being, most likely alone, bursting out into celebratory screaming and possible acts of insanity.
Expect to see instances of RSAS in New England for the next several months.
Example
Tourist: "What's up with that guy?"
Bostonian: "Oh, he's just celebrating the Red Sox World Series victory."
Tourist: "But that was two months ago. That guy is screaming and running in traffic."
Bostonian: "What's your point?" - Modified from an email I read that was sent to Bill Simmons.
My World Series Championship T-Shirt looks really good on me.
Just a jumble of stuff I've seen, read, heard, or thought of over the last few days.
I woke up Thursday morning and the Boston Red Sox were World Champions. Uh, I did wake up, right?
Next Year's Now!
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine - REM
Where the hell was Derek Lowe during the regular season? Actually, who the hell cares? He picked the right time to come back.
"Don't let us win tonight. This is a big game. They've got to win because if we win, we've got Pedro coming back and then Schilling will pitch Game 6 and then you can take that fraud stuff and put it to bed. Don't let the Red Sox win this game." - Kevin Millar before game 4 of the ALCS.
To all the "other" baseball fans who just wanted to see a good World Series, and to the networks who wanted more than 4 games, sorry it didn't happen, but here in the Nation we really don't care. After 86 years, we just wanted it done and over with. We've had enough drama, thank you.
I'm still not tired of hearing "Tessie".
CURSE CLOSED - Bradenton Herald (Fla) front page headline
Kudos to the City of Boston, the Red Sox, and the 3.2 million members of Red Sox Nation for keeping it all under control during the largest celebration in the history of the city.
I realized when I got home on Saturday that I had just spent 5 hours outside on a raw, wet, and miserable day, and not once did it occur to me while I was out there that it was a raw, wet, and miserable day.
Congrats. Now shut the fuck up. - e-mail to ESPN columnist and Sox fan Bill Simmons (and I believe addressed to all of Red Sox Nation) from a guy in Washington D.C.
When I'm 85 years old I hope I look as dapper and dignified as Johnny Pesky.
I think it's very difficult to give the World Series MVP to one guy on that team. Since it had to be done, Manny was certainly a good choice, but my vote would have gone to Keith Foulke. He finished all 4 games, with a win in game 1 and a save in game 4. He basically turned each game into an 8 inning affair for the Cards. That puts a lot of pressure on them to put some runs on the board the later it got. They knew if they didn't get that lead by the eighth they were done. Not quite Mo Rivera in his prime, but not very far off.
I love winning man, I fuckin' love winning. Ya hear what I'm sayin', it's like better than losin'? - Nuke Laloosh, Bull Durham.
Hats off to the Cardinals and their fans. That's a great baseball team, a great baseball city, and the fans are first class.
Wait `til This Year. - Sign at Fenway
The Red Sox winning the World Series was on the front page of many national and local publications, and the lead story in many national and local news shows in the entire country Thursday morning. This, despite the fact that Kerry and Bush were locked in a dead heat with only 5 days left until the election.
Theo Epstein is brilliant.
Francona was right to stick with Bellhorn (as I had been saying all along), despite the cries of Red Sox Nation for Pokey. Had he given in, there's a good chance I would not have been running around the city screaming my head off at "duckboats" on Saturday.
With his breakthrough procedure on Schilling's ankle, Sox Medical Director Bill Morgan played as big a role in this as any of the players.
Congrats guys! Now what do we talk about? - MCM
In a Framingham coffee shop yesterday morning, an elderly man softly asked a customer if he could see her newspaper. When the woman held up the front page, emblazoned with news of the Red Sox victory, the man stared in silence, touched his eyes, and began to cry. - From Friday's Globe
`BOUT TIME - New York Post back page headline (a bit of grudging respect)
A lot of people are saying that we've lost our identity now. We're no longer members of a tragic nation. Now we're just regular fans and eventually we're going to resent it. I say bah. I compare it to when I used to be a fat man. That was an identity that I wanted to get rid of so I could just be a regular guy, and when I finally did, I didn't miss it at all and I never want to experience it again. Good riddance.
John Henry fucking rocks!
Red Sox Aftershock Syndrome (RSAS)- A spontaneous act of celebration, which occurs after the sudden realization that the Boston Red Sox have won the World Series. It can happen anywhere at anytime, and will usually involve an otherwise seemingly normal human being, most likely alone, bursting out into celebratory screaming and possible acts of insanity.
Expect to see instances of RSAS in New England for the next several months.
Example
Tourist: "What's up with that guy?"
Bostonian: "Oh, he's just celebrating the Red Sox World Series victory."
Tourist: "But that was two months ago. That guy is screaming and running in traffic."
Bostonian: "What's your point?" - Modified from an email I read that was sent to Bill Simmons.
My World Series Championship T-Shirt looks really good on me.
posted by Bob at 11/12/2004 08:16:00 AM
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