I was twelve years old the last time that Boston played in the World Series. It was eighteen years ago you see.
I just saw Steven Tyler sing the National Anthem for the first game of the World Series in Fenway Park.
FENWAY PARK.
WOOOO!
Here we go!
It’s not often that you see a major police department in the United States make such a statement of responsibility so soon after an incident such as the one that killed College Student Victoria Snelgrove during the celebrations in Boston after the Red Sox won the ALCS two days ago. Details from the Boston Globe:
The Boston Police Department “accepts full responsibility” for the death of a 21-year-old college student killed by a police projectile fired to disperse crowds celebrating the Boston Red Sox victory over the New York Yankees.
Preliminary findings indicate that Victoria Snelgrove, a journalism student at Emerson College, was hit in the eye by a projectile that disperses pepper spray on impact, Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole said Thursday.
Snelgrove died at 12:50 p.m. at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, hours after the overnight melee.
“The Boston Police Department is devastated by this tragedy. This terrible event should never have happened,” O’Toole told reporters. “The Boston Police Department accepts full responsibility for the death of Victoria Snelgrove.”
I applaud the leadership of Boston PD for their handling of the aftermath of this incident….
Might I introduce you to the Boston Red Sox – the 2004 American League Champions.
World Series – OUR WORLD SERIES – begins on Saturday.
After doing the impossible in the ALCS, why not us? Why not this team? Why not this year?
CURSE THIS!
In his own words:
“I tried to be as tough as I could, and I did it my way and you saw what happened. I prayed and prayed, not to win, but for the strength to be able to compete.”
And compete, he did…
I’ve never seen three baseball games so hardly fought – inch by inch – as the last three days of baseball between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. The Boston Globe provides a great recap of tonight’s record breaking action in New York
Gritting his teeth and grimacing throughout, Curt Schilling willed away the pain in his right ankle and the Boston Red Sox got the benefit of two reversed calls to move within one win of the most shocking comeback in baseball postseason history.
For the second straight year, the New York Yankees and the Red Sox will go to a Game 7, a winner-take-all battle for the AL pennant between baseball’s perennial pinstriped power and a Boston team desperately trying to win the World Series for the first time since 1918.
Pitching on a dislocated ankle tendon that forced him out of the opener, Schilling smothered the Yankees by allowing one run over seven innings to lead the Red Sox over New York 4-2 Tuesday night and pull Boston into a 3-3 tie in an AL championship series that was three outs from a sweep just two days earlier.
Curt Schilling has stones, my friends.
For an athlete to pitch through that sort of pain – for seven innings – and hold the opponent to just two runs (in their own ballpark) is simply outstanding. And to do it for that team – to fight from three games down to force a seventh game is unbelievable.
I BELIEVE.
From yesterday’s Boston Herald:
They look like rebels. They act like renegades. And clearly, they have no intention of going quietly into the deep, dark night. Continuing to spit in the face of convention, the Red Sox rallied from a 4-2, eighth-inning deficit to defeat the New York Yankees, 5-4, in 14 innings.
The Red Sox, a few minutes ago, just did what no team in baseball history has ever done – come back from 3 games behind to force a seventh game.
Why not us? Why not now?