![]() In the morning, I checked the Boston Globe website and found out they were still alive on Ortiz’s 12th inning homer. I came home that night, turned on the TV, and the Sox had just taken a 3-2 lead and Fox was playing “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over.” Ten minutes later, they had coughed up the lead. ![]() Such a great season, such a shitty ending. I had a screening that night, so I would mercifully miss the dismal end, the Red Sox being swept by the Yankees in four. I woke up Sunday morning feeling like I’d been mugged. The Saturday night slaughter at Fenway Park made the original Boston Massacre look like a tea party. Three nights ago, the Sox were left for dead. A lot has already been written, but here are my favorites:Īnyone know where I can get my hands on some horse tranquilizers? I will say I'm most happy for my dad, a long-suffering Sox fan, and for my nieces and nephew, newly minted members of Red Sox Nation who will never have to live with all the angst and futility. I've been a pretty distant fan for a long time, until the last year or so, so I almost feel guilty about reaping the rewards. I dunno, I'm babbling now, but we're in some kind of alternate reality and anything could happen.Īs far as the Red Sox, I'm not gonna try to wax eloquent. Halloween probably plays into this somehow, too. With my apologies for making a VH-1 reference, this really could be the Best Week Ever. The Red Sox won the World Series under a lunar eclipse and now the planets are aligned and we have entered a brief window of time where all good things are possible, black is white, up is down, and Bush is on his way back to Crawford. Okay, so he may not seem like the most appropriate choice for a blog rooted in moonshine-swilling hillbillies, but Moonshine Mountain is a big tent! We have room for truck drivers, country singers, murderous rednecks, New Jersey mobsters, gravel-throated musicians, scruffy baseball players and patrician Boston politicians! This is my space and these are my interests and you aren't paying for it anyway! So get off my back and go vote for Kerry!
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