Ecstasy With 2 Pals Who Love the Bosox
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An excitable, book-length high-five for the Boston Red Sox by two of their fans, the novelists Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan.
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It was one of those just-between-slugger moments: David Ortiz huddling with Barry Bonds when the Giants visited Fenway Park last weekend.
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The news comes fast and furious. Pedro Martinez goes to Tampa to visit George Steinbrenner. Theo Epstein and John Henry go to Florida for their turn with Pedro. Carl Pavano comes to Boston to visit Curt Schilling. Jason Varitek says he's not a goner. Derek Lowe is a goner, but he says he wishes it could be different. Orlando Cabrera ...
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Heâs been a bosom buddy. A grown-up kid. An Alabama simpleton. A baseball team manager. An astronaut. A soldier. A hitman. A prison guard.
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well, sort of very own â-t. Louis Cardinals are in the World Series against the Boston Red Sox. (How did that happen?). Having been a Cardinals
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NORTON -- We're all drawn to greatness. When David Ortiz steps into the batter's box at Fenway Park, we lay claim to him because he plays for our team, in our city, and that means we are qualified to take ownership of a small piece of his greatness when he hits one over the Wall. Same thing with Ted Williams, ...
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Congratulations, BoSox fans. Your time has arrived. The Curse has been broken once and for all. No longer will you be taunted by obnoxious Yankees fans waving signs that read only &quot;1918.
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CHICAGO -- Every day you see a little more evidence on the side of the Red Sox, the team that traded a Boston legend for two people most noted for their glove work.
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Curse of the Bambino? Please. As jinxed ballclubs go, your Red Sox can&#39;t even crack the top two. OK, so your heroes haven&#39;t won the World Series since Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
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Milton Bradley felt like he had a kindred spirit in Mark Kotsay. The two Oakland outfielders are next-door neighbors in the Athletics' clubhouse and are close in other ways too.
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That&#39;s more than any other baseball player except Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. Pretty good company there. It was an accomplishment to be celebrated, and in San Francisco, they did.
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Earl Snyder grew up rooting for Red Sox outfielder Ellis Burks. Now he's sitting next to him.
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Now that they know their opponent, the Rox are ready to take on the Sox. "We're under the radar. It's being billed as a David and Goliath situation. But that's OK," Colorado Rockies reliever Matt Herges said Monday. "We're as confident as anybody, we're as hot as anybody. We think we're as good as anybody."
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Tim Jarrett understands what I'm saying. What a great Superbowl, and what an opportunity for Boston sports fans to learn the value in losing. What? Value in losing? You bet.  It wasn't that long ago when Boston was one of the best cities in the USA for sports precisely because Boston teams were such spectacular losers. I'll never forget the misery of the Dowbrigade after the Red Sox lost something (or did they win, I forget). They must have lost because he swore he'd never let them break his heart again the way they had for his whole life (he's about my age). Losing teaches you that there's more to life than winning, and that's the best lesson possible and it's the one lesson you keep needing to learn over and over until you lose everything, which like it or not is what we all do in the end. People write poetry about losing, great music is composed about lost causes. Who writes an ode to winning? They're too busy getting drunk or getting laid.  Never have I loved a team more or felt more kinship with my fellow fans than when our team goes down in flames after a season of great ups and downs. No doubt there are no smiles or tears of joy in Boston today. But there is hope. And that, even when you win, is all that's left after a great season.
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About 3,000 Floridian Red Sox fans joined Tim Wakefield and Mike Timlin at the team's spring training complex last night to celebrate the 2004 World Series championship.
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Boston starter Jon Lester earned the plaudits from his team mates on Sunday after pitching the Red Sox to their second World Series victory in four years.
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Red Sox 11, Athletics 6. Seventeen Boston hits. Fun for all on a nice, hot, late September evening. The magic number is down to 2. It could all be over tonight.