Sox Win the World Series!!!
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SOX WIN THE WORLD SERIES!
Mikey Lowell named series MVP!
Sox rookies make Rockies look like rookies, outscorin'em 29-10 in four game series sweep!
The Boston Red Sox won the 103rd Major League Baseball World Series last night in Denver, Colorado, sweeping the Rockies 4-games-to-nothing ... For stats, score, etc. check out boston.com ... I had a whole speech layed out in my mind on the train to work today, but now I'm sort of drawing an emotional blank. From game one this season, it was a complete effort from the whole staff:
like when Julian Tavarez saved our pitching rotation (& won some key games for us earlier in the season),
or when Jacoby and Dustin stepped up & became an unstoppable tandem over the last four games of the World Series, knocking in a ton a runs,
or Bobby Kielty's (essentially) game-winning pinch-hit home run last night,
or Julio Lugo's excellent defense,
or Jon Lester coming back from Lymphoma to pitch lights out last night
& the obvious players who are not to go unmentioned - Papi, Manny, Beckett, Mikey Lowell, Papelbon, Coco, Dice-K, Okijima, Veritek, Youkilis (I might as well put up a list oft he 25-man roster) ... & of course, Terry Francona and the most-underrated coaching staff in the Majors. This team lived up to all the hype and expectation this year - hype and expectation that came from the most unlikely place, from the Nation itself.
Missy and I stuck with this team all season - from our dominating start (you know, the back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs at home against the Yankees), to a decent summer, to when it looked like we were going to cough it up at the end of September, to being a game away from elimination in the ALCS (Cleveland who?), to out utter domination of the Rockies on both ends of the game - she maintained she was good luck & how can I not believe her? This was a great season & a great end to the season. Let's enjoy this for a little while ...
(I also reserve the right to write a more measured entry but for now, this will do. GO SOX!)
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Posted by GM G AT 29 October, 2007 09:07
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