10.28.2004

I Don't Understand..

...How the Yanks could let this happen!!! Unbelievable. I am baffled. I read an article by Sporting News columnist Ken Rosenthal today that puts this into a more sane perspective. Sox Suffer No More: What's Next for Red Sox Fans? Sox fans have held onto and embraced the curse for so long that they no have nothing without it. They can't chant all the anti-Yankee chants anymore, no more "Jeter Swallows" or, my old favorite that has since been retired, "Suck My Knoblauch." They have been conditioned to hate the Yankees for so long because of their inferiority complex that now they are for superior that will go crazy. Then as Ken Rosenthal points out, "Sox fans, destined to lose, conditioned to lose, born to lose, must face a startling new reality: THEIR LIVES HAVE NO MEANING! All right, maybe that's overstating it. But to be sure, rooting for the Sox will be different now. It's not all about misery anymore...

Once the celebration ends — oh, sometime around January — Sox fans will look up and say, "Whoa, another season is coming." And then the realization will set in: They've beaten the Yankees, they've won the Series, they've ended a curse that was never a curse at all, but a simple mark of the Sox's inferiority.

What's next?

The answer for the Sox should be simple: Do what the Yankees do. Build another winner, and then another and another. Do it not by clinging to past triumphs, even if it means difficult and unpopular decisions on postseason heroes like Pedro Martinez and Derek Lowe."


It breaks my friggen heart. (Boston Herald) Posted by Hello

This is where will we see how much of a winner the Red Sox truly are. For Sox fans to say we finally beat the Yanks and won the World Series, we could care less if we ever do it again, would show not only their inferiority as baseball fans, but also the inferiority of the team they root for.

An email from my dad aptly titled "Lay'em to Rest." It says: It occurs to me at this historic juncture that there might be serious money to be made with the sale of beer mugs throughout New England, featuring a well rendered drawing of Johnny "Van Helsing" Damon
(appropriately attired, of course) hammering a stake through the heart of the heretofore weirdly "undead" Babe..."

Undead is right. For to truly hammer the so called curse that never existed away you must win a total number of World Championships greater than the Yankees total. Which we all know will happen when pigs fly. Hell has already frozen over according to the Daily News...So I have moved on to other expressions to express the futility of being a Sox fan. If the Sox fail to win the World Series next year they are no better than the Marlins...a one year fluke of a team that went on a lucky run and returned to mediocrity the next year.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

My Uncle John, a die hard Red Sox fan, who is also a Cardinals fan, was deeply conflicted at the start of this World Series. I think he is te one who recruited everyone over to the "dark side" in my family. He decided at the beginning of this series to root for *cough cough* THE CARDINALS!!! AHAHAHAHAHA. This guy preeched to me for years that it was the year. He will never ahain see the Sox in the World Series, and he chose to root for the other guy. Even in total defeat I am basking in the glory of my uncle's calculated decision that since the Cards had the best record in baseball the Sox couldn't possibly beat them. Holla!

One more thing...I'm working in finance again. I signed on with a Forex trading firm here in Tokyo to do the same thing I was doing back in NY when I moved to Japan...Visa, fixed. Money, on the way. Life, it's good! Not even the Sox winning the World Series can spoil this for me haha.