The Tragedy of '04
This is the title of an article that was written in the August 28th edition of the Globe. The link was provided today on Boston Dirt Dogs. It can be accessed here:
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/08/28/the_tragedy_of_04/
for anyone who wants to read it, but my advice would be not to waste your time because it’s total garbage.
The author, Scott Stossel, whom I have never heard of, suggests that it may have been a bad thing that the Sox finally won it all last year. This is nothing new, he cites all the same hogwash that went around right after they won it about how we somehow lost our identities as losers, which in turn means we have lost a piece of something we can never get back, etc, and that maybe we were better off if they hadn’t won.
What I don’t understand is, how is it that 10 months after it happened, this guy took something that was a bunch of crap in the first place, recycled it, and then actually managed to get it published in The Boston Globe?
He claims he is a long-standing Sox fan but I have to question that allegiance. As I’ve already stated, he’s not the first person to suggest this, and as far as I’m concerned anyone who thinks or suggests something like this should have their Sox Nation membership immediately suspended pending further investigation.
Or as he suggests, maybe we should just burn them at the stake, or string them out on the Common like 17th century heretic, Mary Dyer. I understand it is suggested purely to spark debate, but as far as I’m concerned it’s just a ludicrous notion that has already been beaten to death and now needs to be buried and forgotten forever.
Any Sox fan worth his salt wanted the Sox to win the World Series. It’s all we’ve ever wanted. We wanted it in 2004, we wanted it in '03, '99, '98, '95, '90, '88, '86, '78, '75, '67, and '46. Oh yeah, and every other year too. We were ecstatic when they finally managed to do it last year, and we want them to do it again this year (I also don’t buy into the notion of not caring if they ever win it again now that they’ve finally done it).
The reason we root for this team is because we want them to win the World Series. It’s heartbreaking when they come close and don’t do it, the summers are long and miserable when they stink, but we dealt with it because we hoped that someday they were finally going to reward us and win it all.
That someday finally came for us last year. All of the near misses that preceded it only made it that much sweeter when it finally happened. They did not give us the feeling of “What do we do now?” or have us wondering if what we lost may have been greater than what we won.
You can’t lose something you never had in the first place. If someone is going to insist on trying to find something that was lost in this victory, then go to Yankee Stadium for the weekend of September 9th-11th. When you get there, you will find that a certain chant always heard reverberating through the air when we visit, will be missing, never to be heard again.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/08/28/the_tragedy_of_04/
for anyone who wants to read it, but my advice would be not to waste your time because it’s total garbage.
The author, Scott Stossel, whom I have never heard of, suggests that it may have been a bad thing that the Sox finally won it all last year. This is nothing new, he cites all the same hogwash that went around right after they won it about how we somehow lost our identities as losers, which in turn means we have lost a piece of something we can never get back, etc, and that maybe we were better off if they hadn’t won.
What I don’t understand is, how is it that 10 months after it happened, this guy took something that was a bunch of crap in the first place, recycled it, and then actually managed to get it published in The Boston Globe?
He claims he is a long-standing Sox fan but I have to question that allegiance. As I’ve already stated, he’s not the first person to suggest this, and as far as I’m concerned anyone who thinks or suggests something like this should have their Sox Nation membership immediately suspended pending further investigation.
Or as he suggests, maybe we should just burn them at the stake, or string them out on the Common like 17th century heretic, Mary Dyer. I understand it is suggested purely to spark debate, but as far as I’m concerned it’s just a ludicrous notion that has already been beaten to death and now needs to be buried and forgotten forever.
Any Sox fan worth his salt wanted the Sox to win the World Series. It’s all we’ve ever wanted. We wanted it in 2004, we wanted it in '03, '99, '98, '95, '90, '88, '86, '78, '75, '67, and '46. Oh yeah, and every other year too. We were ecstatic when they finally managed to do it last year, and we want them to do it again this year (I also don’t buy into the notion of not caring if they ever win it again now that they’ve finally done it).
The reason we root for this team is because we want them to win the World Series. It’s heartbreaking when they come close and don’t do it, the summers are long and miserable when they stink, but we dealt with it because we hoped that someday they were finally going to reward us and win it all.
That someday finally came for us last year. All of the near misses that preceded it only made it that much sweeter when it finally happened. They did not give us the feeling of “What do we do now?” or have us wondering if what we lost may have been greater than what we won.
You can’t lose something you never had in the first place. If someone is going to insist on trying to find something that was lost in this victory, then go to Yankee Stadium for the weekend of September 9th-11th. When you get there, you will find that a certain chant always heard reverberating through the air when we visit, will be missing, never to be heard again.
posted by Bob at 8/31/2005 01:55:00 PM
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