You should hear the comments here by the “Pink Hats” (something which you might have caught the front edge of before you moved to Cali). Actually more than a few comments about how the Series wasn’t “exciting enough”. Well guess what — 2004 was about our Grandfather/Grandmother/Pat, brothers, sisters and friends who didn’t get to see the end of 86 years of pure anxiety and hell. Moms who knew more about the “Hometown Team” than half the experts in any other city!
2007 was more about the best team in baseball winning the ultimate prize — and your grandfather (and Pat) would have taken about as much satisfaction, if not more, with this one. This was, to borrow a contrite phrase, “The Best of Boston”. Best record, best team, winning in a professional way — and best fans. Basically, a class you were at leat supposed to get an A minus in and walking out with a 100. Very few cars honking (although I live in suburbia now) — more of the good old fashioned “I knew I would kick ass and I did, feeling”.
You can leave a lot behind from here (and you should probably leave a lot behind), but as you said, nothing like a crisp October day, where, finally, we were the best team and proved it. You canot leave the October Sox ever. Cali will NEVER have that (except maybe the Lakers). 2007 was about now and the future. Thanks, Red Sox!!!!
That aside, I have to say what I liked about the games, which made them seeem like the old-fashioned days, was how well the rookies and newer guys played.
I have to admit I’m not nearly sports fan enough to know the intricacies, but I’ve always had a cynicism about current, big-business sports. It’s margins and celebrity salaries and buying a stable of juiced overperformers. This year’s Sox showed a lot of purchasing power to get the win (like Sox fans always complained about the Yankees).
But then you got Pedroia and Ellsbury coming up from the farm leagues just like in the olden days and coming to play.
Grandfather would have dug that. Pat, well, she probably would just talk about Jacoby being a Navajo on his mother’s side, because Ellsbury isn’t an Indian name.
You should hear the comments here by the “Pink Hats” (something which you might have caught the front edge of before you moved to Cali). Actually more than a few comments about how the Series wasn’t “exciting enough”. Well guess what — 2004 was about our Grandfather/Grandmother/Pat, brothers, sisters and friends who didn’t get to see the end of 86 years of pure anxiety and hell. Moms who knew more about the “Hometown Team” than half the experts in any other city!
2007 was more about the best team in baseball winning the ultimate prize — and your grandfather (and Pat) would have taken about as much satisfaction, if not more, with this one. This was, to borrow a contrite phrase, “The Best of Boston”. Best record, best team, winning in a professional way — and best fans. Basically, a class you were at leat supposed to get an A minus in and walking out with a 100. Very few cars honking (although I live in suburbia now) — more of the good old fashioned “I knew I would kick ass and I did, feeling”.
You can leave a lot behind from here (and you should probably leave a lot behind), but as you said, nothing like a crisp October day, where, finally, we were the best team and proved it. You canot leave the October Sox ever. Cali will NEVER have that (except maybe the Lakers). 2007 was about now and the future. Thanks, Red Sox!!!!
I think my sister has one of the pink hats.
That aside, I have to say what I liked about the games, which made them seeem like the old-fashioned days, was how well the rookies and newer guys played.
I have to admit I’m not nearly sports fan enough to know the intricacies, but I’ve always had a cynicism about current, big-business sports. It’s margins and celebrity salaries and buying a stable of juiced overperformers. This year’s Sox showed a lot of purchasing power to get the win (like Sox fans always complained about the Yankees).
But then you got Pedroia and Ellsbury coming up from the farm leagues just like in the olden days and coming to play.
Grandfather would have dug that. Pat, well, she probably would just talk about Jacoby being a Navajo on his mother’s side, because Ellsbury isn’t an Indian name.