Why a Red Sox Fan Shouldn&#39;t Really Want His Team to End the World
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ou have a friend who is a Boston Red Sox fan. A good, loyal friend. A confidant you can pity. Boy, you say to him, the Sox are strong this year.
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Curt Schilling&#39;s status is uncertain. His usefulness is unclear. His dream of delivering a World Series championship to the Boston Red Sox may now be unrealistic.
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Five outs -- five measly outs. That&#39;s how close the Boston Red Sox came to going to the World Series last year and perhaps ending an 85-year championship drought.
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Because so many members of Red Sox Nation are expected in Boston to celebrate the team&#39;s World Series triumph, the victory parade today won&#39;t be making any stops and won&#39;t culminate with a staged rally, either.
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Momentum does not appear to play a big role in determining a World Series champion. For every example of a team that seemed to feed off its recent success, there is a counterexample.
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First, let&#39;s put our hands together and thank Johnny Damon and the Boston Red Sox for beating a franchise and a fan base who act more entitled than Donald Trump&#39;s children.
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Some guys can do it. Some guys can look past the faces and the memories and the feelings and the history and see only a uniform. It is the World Series, and there is no room for sentiment or friendship. If you are a member of the Boston Red Sox, every member of the St. Louis Cardinals must be the ...
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The World Series has been over less than 48 hours and already I can&#39;t wait for the free-agent signing period to commence, for the Winter Meetings to unfold, for tensions between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees to escalate to unprecedented levels.
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The World Series is headed there after two Red Sox victories at Fenway Park in Boston. And, while many Sox fans are convinced that the series won&#39;t be returning for games six and seven next weekend, here are a couple of facts to remember:
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I&#39;m one of those people who believe there is an aura around this Red Sox team that will enable Boston to prevail over the Yankees in the latest postseason showdown between these two bitter rivals.
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The Boston Red Sox might try to defend their World Series with an even wackier group than the self-proclaimed &quot;bunch of idiots&quot; that ended the franchise&#39;s 86-year dynasty of disappointment.
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Attention Red Sox season ticket holders: Those precious postseason tickets could be at risk -- and it has nothing to do with the current state of Tim Wakefield&#39;s knuckleball.
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These Boston Red Sox aren&#39;t worried about what happened in New York last year because they think they&#39;re better than the team that lost to the Yankees in the 2003 American League Championship Series.
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Don't be shocked . . . if the Red Sox lose.
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Despite all that's been said about a curse, a lot of Red Sox fans weren't thinking of Babe Ruth or Bucky Dent the moment Boston won the World Series Wednesday night.
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And now the World Series shifts to St. Louis and Busch Stadium. The Red Sox will find it an odd site for baseball in that no one will be yelling &quot;You Suck!
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ST. LOUIS - As any idiot will tell you, a two-game lead in a seven-game series does not guarantee a title. The Red Sox, those self-proclaimed &quot;Idiots,&quot; should know this better than anyone.