The heavens have rolled up like a scroll; mountains have melted like mist; the sun has risen in the west; the rivers run uphill; the seas have turned to blood; the lion has lain down with the lamb; and the stars are falling like summer showers.
But in a good way.
The Red Sox have won.
Bravo Sox. On 2 miracle 2 Nov. 2.
Posted by: xanax | October 28, 2004 at 12:35 AM
I will abide by this ruling and hold my piece.
Somewhere, probably in several places, Ted Williams is
jumping for joy.
Yaz
Buckner
Yaz
I love baseball.
Posted by: John Thullen | October 28, 2004 at 12:38 AM
Don't forget hell freezing over. And yep. I love me some baseball to. How many weeks until pitchers and catchers report?
Posted by: Harley | October 28, 2004 at 01:00 AM
Dogs and Cats living together.
Way to go Sox, now my Thurs. Poker game can go on sans TV.
Giants in '05!!
Posted by: crionna | October 28, 2004 at 01:02 AM
Red Sox win in a sweep after being 3 down AND there's a gorgeous blood-red lunar eclipse.
A good night. A night to revel in miracles on the Earth and pageantry in the heavens.
Enjoy!
Posted by: CaseyL | October 28, 2004 at 01:23 AM
It was the eclipse that did it!
Hail the red moon!
Posted by: Jesurgislac | October 28, 2004 at 03:55 AM
Hmmm...things are positively nippy here. Any idea what might have happened?
Posted by: Satan | October 28, 2004 at 06:44 AM
If they'd known what Ruth would become. If they'd known what Robinson would become. If Pesky had made the relay faster. If they could've gotten to Bob Gibson just once. If they hadn't blown a 3 run lead in game 7 in 1975. If Aaron Boone and Bucky Dent hadn't shared a middle name. If Schiraldi had held the lead. If Stanley hadn't made the wild pitch. If McNamara pulled Buckner. If Little had pulled Pedro.
I wasn't alive in 67 or 75 or the playoff in 78, I was for the other team in 1986--I was only in Boston for Little, Martinez and Boone. But everyone who lives here & reads the sports section knows those questions. (The New York sports press is made up of a bunch of Buddhas compared to Boston's--they are brutal here.)
This year all the what ifs went in the other direction. If they succeed in trading Manny for A-Rod. If Wakefield doesn't offer to eat the innings in game 3, giving Lowe the start in game 4. If Millar doesn't walk. If Roberts doesn't steal second. If Mueller doesn't single. If Ortiz isn't Ortiz. If Tony Clark's double doesn't bounce into the stands. If Roberts doesn't shake up Gordon.If Wakefield doesn't throw knuckleballs that can't be caught, let alone hit, for three innings. If the Boston bullpen doesn't pitch 14 and one third scoreless. If Jason Varitek gives up just one more passed ball in the twelfth. If Ortiz isn't Ortiz. If Dr. Morgan doesn't invent Schilling ankle surgery. If Schilling doesn't put his career at risk to give them game seven. If Schilling can't pitch on a half-numb, bleeding foot. If Terry Francona listens to the calls to bench Mark Bellhorn. If the umpires don't reverse those two calls. If Derek Lowe doesn't pitch better than Brown and Vasquez combined. If Johnny Damon doesn't emerge from a slump at exactly the right time....and that's just the Yankees series.
Posted by: Katherine | October 28, 2004 at 11:19 AM
Does this mean that you people won;t beat up Buckner's kids (grandkids?) anymore?
Posted by: Big loser | October 28, 2004 at 12:32 PM
The treatment of Buckner by some has been atrocious. He was a great hitter, and before his leg injuries with the Dodgers, was a superb base-stealing threat.
I love Billy Buckner. His career was Greek tragedy, which only happens to heros.
He has grandkids? I hate that part. It's gotta be too soon.
Posted by: John Thullen | October 28, 2004 at 01:24 PM
I used to think the Bruckner Expressway was the Buckner Expressway, named after poor Bill. I thought it was pretty mean, even as a Mets fan.
It is ridiculous. Buckner had all kinds of injuries and was usually the DH, was in about as much shape to play first as Schilling was to pitch. McNamara should've pulled him for a defensive replacement several innings before. (Loyal Mets fans also believe the Mookster might have beaten the play at first anyway, though a healthy first baseman would have charged the ball.)
And more importantly, the game was already tied when Mookie hit his grounder--Bob Stanley had just made a wild pitch that allowed the tying run to score.
Somehow the Red Sox would've won without the Buckner play, despite blowing the lead with two outs, but they didn't have a real chance to win Game 7.
Sports writers are so freaking clueless sometimes.
The "No No Nanette" thing is also a crock, by the way.
Posted by: Katherine | October 28, 2004 at 01:34 PM
(not that Bob Stanley or John McNamara should've been run out of town by an angry mob either.)
Posted by: Katherine | October 28, 2004 at 01:46 PM
Hmmm ... don't trust that Satan guy who commented above: I think he's up to no good.
Posted by: praktike | October 28, 2004 at 02:15 PM
So Schilling ruins a perfectly fine baseball thread with politics.
Posted by: John Thullen | October 28, 2004 at 05:47 PM
I'll forgive Schilling for this unless New Hampshire breaks for Bush by a handful of votes & decides the election.
If you're sad that baseball is over and you live in New England, NECN is showing the last inning of come from behind victories this year. Nice background for writing cover letters.
Posted by: Katherine | October 28, 2004 at 09:44 PM
And the owners have announced that the plan to tear down Fenway is officially dead--though Fenway won't last forever.
I'm very glad. Fenway's too expensive because of the small number of seats & the fact that they sell out every single game, but it's a great place to watch a game, especially for someone who's mainly been to the dump that is Shea Stadium.
I covered the Fenway neighborhood during my brief career as a paid journalist, and went to many a zoning meeting. The new stadium plan was lousy.
More importantly, my old apartment was almost directly across the river from the Citgo sign, and I used to love walking home over the Mass Ave bridge on a summer night & seeing the whole sky lit up on that side of the river during night games. That's when the Red Sox became my second team--we originally rooted for them because they were on TV and the Mets weren't, and it was so relaxing to watch a game when you only cared a little & weren't schvitzing through every close game. Well, that didn't last.
Posted by: Katherine | October 29, 2004 at 12:16 AM
Schilling may support Bush, but we've got the brains of the operation.
Epstein's appearing at a rally for Kerry in NH today. Schilling cancelled his rally on account of the ankle but recorded some robo calls. All very silly.
Posted by: Katherine | October 31, 2004 at 12:51 PM