10.28.2004
world series champions
I guess I picked the wrong year to leave New Jersey...
Never stopped hoping, never stopped believing, but at the same time, never quite let it sink in that maybe this could be the year. "This is the year" is what we say to Yankees fans who shove it in our faces time and time again. It's so natural it's an automatic reaction. It's like when your girlfriend asks "does this make me look fat?" There's only one answer, and it's out of your mouth before you even process the question. It's a part of who you are, it's a part of how you think. Now what? New York Newsday's Chuck Culpepper, in an interview with Angry Bill of Boston's sports radio call-in scene, reported the following: yes, even we can be a little bit sad about winning.
"A part of me dies," he said. "A part of me dies with the Red Sox win. A part of what made me. A part of my personality ... I die tonight. Part of me dies tonight. A lot of things I've lived to complain about are gone.
"And that makes me sad."
Anybody who quibbles with that, Angry Bill said, "They're not a true Red Sox fan."
The Associated Press reported this morning (yes, it's morning over here) that St. Louis fans are bristling over repeated breakdowns against Boston. We're talking the 2002 Rams, the 1970 Blues. And now we're talking the 2004 Red Sox. "I'm very, very sick of them. You just want to scream," said Marianne Sutter, a St. Louis fan who roots for the hometown Cardinals, Rams and Blues. "They're definitely a thorn in our side."
Meanwhile, Tony La Russa, has been voicing his disappointment over his hotel room in Boston which, fair enough, was in Quincy. Quincy's, like, 30 minutes from downtown Boston, especially given the traffic. La Russa was particularly bummed that while the hotel arranged to keep the dining room open for the Cardinals, they were served pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers and wings. Says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "General manager Walt Jocketty referred to the spread with disdain as "bar food."" You expected better out of Quincy, Mass? The Post-Dispatch also screwed up, saying that "The cardinals were told no downtown hotel had a large enough bloc of rooms to accomodate their traveling party because of a sailing regatta, the Head of the Charles." The Head is a rowing regatta, you boneheds.
The ESPN Useless Information Division tells us that "78 franchises won a championship in the four major pro sports in between Red Sox titles." These include the Providence Steam Rollers (Football), Minneapolis Lakers (Basketball), the Victoria Cougars (Hockey), and indeed, even the Celtics. They are also quick to point out the following:
Original baseball teams that still haven't won one: Cubs (1908) and White Sox (1917). aww... :(
There are also reports that Tony "hotel-room-weenie" La Russa has become:
1) the only manager in history to have been swept twice in a World Series
2) the only manager to have been swept in the Series in each league
3) the only manager to get swept while managing two different teams.
If you couldn't tell, I'm an internet news junkie. And today was certainly no exception. Especially when there's such good news out there in the world, especially in Boston. This certainly was a great weekend for Boston sports:
1) The Patriots went for 21 over the Jets.
2) BC eked out a win over Notre Dame (Hey, I'm a Michigan fan, any time N-D loses, I'm happy)
3) Revolution, in the playoffs, beat Columbus Crew 1-0
4) The Red Sox, who did the impossible and are now sitting at the top of the world.
And just for kicks, the Elite US eights entry in the Head of the Charles hit a bridge right by my old high school. HA! Even I, as a middle-schooler, could navigate that bridge. I am, however, quite sad to say that the eventual winners of the eights entry was Cambridge University (boo!).
I'm delirious with excitement and exhausted at the same time. I should try to sleep, but I can't. It's amazing. What a year!
Never stopped hoping, never stopped believing, but at the same time, never quite let it sink in that maybe this could be the year. "This is the year" is what we say to Yankees fans who shove it in our faces time and time again. It's so natural it's an automatic reaction. It's like when your girlfriend asks "does this make me look fat?" There's only one answer, and it's out of your mouth before you even process the question. It's a part of who you are, it's a part of how you think. Now what? New York Newsday's Chuck Culpepper, in an interview with Angry Bill of Boston's sports radio call-in scene, reported the following: yes, even we can be a little bit sad about winning.
"A part of me dies," he said. "A part of me dies with the Red Sox win. A part of what made me. A part of my personality ... I die tonight. Part of me dies tonight. A lot of things I've lived to complain about are gone.
"And that makes me sad."
Anybody who quibbles with that, Angry Bill said, "They're not a true Red Sox fan."
The Associated Press reported this morning (yes, it's morning over here) that St. Louis fans are bristling over repeated breakdowns against Boston. We're talking the 2002 Rams, the 1970 Blues. And now we're talking the 2004 Red Sox. "I'm very, very sick of them. You just want to scream," said Marianne Sutter, a St. Louis fan who roots for the hometown Cardinals, Rams and Blues. "They're definitely a thorn in our side."
Meanwhile, Tony La Russa, has been voicing his disappointment over his hotel room in Boston which, fair enough, was in Quincy. Quincy's, like, 30 minutes from downtown Boston, especially given the traffic. La Russa was particularly bummed that while the hotel arranged to keep the dining room open for the Cardinals, they were served pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers and wings. Says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "General manager Walt Jocketty referred to the spread with disdain as "bar food."" You expected better out of Quincy, Mass? The Post-Dispatch also screwed up, saying that "The cardinals were told no downtown hotel had a large enough bloc of rooms to accomodate their traveling party because of a sailing regatta, the Head of the Charles." The Head is a rowing regatta, you boneheds.
The ESPN Useless Information Division tells us that "78 franchises won a championship in the four major pro sports in between Red Sox titles." These include the Providence Steam Rollers (Football), Minneapolis Lakers (Basketball), the Victoria Cougars (Hockey), and indeed, even the Celtics. They are also quick to point out the following:
Original baseball teams that still haven't won one: Cubs (1908) and White Sox (1917). aww... :(
There are also reports that Tony "hotel-room-weenie" La Russa has become:
1) the only manager in history to have been swept twice in a World Series
2) the only manager to have been swept in the Series in each league
3) the only manager to get swept while managing two different teams.
If you couldn't tell, I'm an internet news junkie. And today was certainly no exception. Especially when there's such good news out there in the world, especially in Boston. This certainly was a great weekend for Boston sports:
1) The Patriots went for 21 over the Jets.
2) BC eked out a win over Notre Dame (Hey, I'm a Michigan fan, any time N-D loses, I'm happy)
3) Revolution, in the playoffs, beat Columbus Crew 1-0
4) The Red Sox, who did the impossible and are now sitting at the top of the world.
And just for kicks, the Elite US eights entry in the Head of the Charles hit a bridge right by my old high school. HA! Even I, as a middle-schooler, could navigate that bridge. I am, however, quite sad to say that the eventual winners of the eights entry was Cambridge University (boo!).
I'm delirious with excitement and exhausted at the same time. I should try to sleep, but I can't. It's amazing. What a year!
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I must say, the Red Sox played well, and do deserve to be the champions. However, there's always next year for the Yankees. We're going to get Johnson, Beltran and a bunch of other people
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