General Chat / Official MLB Playoffs 2004 Thread

Oh man, nice.
Bellhorn is ALIVE!

oh man, two consecutive games, final runs scored on the exact same hit. youd never expect it from mark bellhorn. AMAZING.

i was just walking home from my buddies house, where we watched the game, and a guy drove by me. he had the window down, and was yelling BELL and then honking his HORN. 81 more outs? i cant wait for this

Ya know... the Red Sox are three outs away from winning the World Series.

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Boston Red Sox World Champions!!!!!

The curse really was lifted. A 4-0 sweep. I don't think ANYONE saw that coming.

Boston Red Sox World Champions!!!!!

The curse really was lifted.  A 4-0 sweep.  I don't think ANYONE saw that coming.

Don't you think it needs it's own topic.
You just want all the fame.

Nope... just doing my admin duties and keeping the forums clean.

Er... this forum clean.

It doesn't seem as special as I thought it would.

Cork = monopolizer

Btw, most playoff games won straight ever by any MLB team (.

well this is 8 games in a row, and guess what,

WORLD CHAMPIONS BABY!

the curse is lifted, rest in peace babe!

It doesn't seem as special as I thought it would.

like fuck it doesn't!!!

holy shit holy shit holy fucking goddamn shit THEY DID IT! WE DID IT! THE SOX WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!
fucking, curse, 1918, 1986, Babeyankeesarodblahblahblah fuck it all, it's a fucking championship!!!!

maaaaaaan. HAppiest moment of my life. Ever. evereverever. this feels so awesome. way too great.

WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It only took ya 86 years but hey who am I to judge.

Today was possibly the single most jubilant day in the history of my high school. Everyone was a-smiling. Except my New Jersey-native journalism teacher, who happens to be a Yankee fan who talked a lot of shit and is now shit out of luck. But overall, today was a very good day. It really set in when I got the Boston Globe in Journalism and the whole damn paper is all about the Red Sox winning the World Series...words don't describe it. I mean, all that curse/1918/Babe shit is all out the window. It's a whole new era. It's surreal. But I sure do like it.

Oh, and the Yankees still suck.

cardinals need some damn aces. but yeah, I'm glad it was the red sox, and not the yankees. so props to you guys, you deserve it. though it was pretty pathetic we couldn't even pull off one win, not even at home.

Today was possibly the single most jubilant day in the history of my high school.  Everyone was a-smiling.  Except my New Jersey-native journalism teacher, who happens to be a Yankee fan who talked a lot of shit and is now shit out of luck.  But overall, today was a very good day.  It really set in when I got the Boston Globe in Journalism and the whole damn paper is all about the Red Sox winning the World Series...words don't describe it.  I mean, all that curse/1918/Babe shit is all out the window.  It's a whole new era.  It's surreal.  But I sure do like it.

Oh, and the Yankees still suck.

I'm just wondering what the nation will do now that it's lost it's identity?

For Toon. And pretty much anyone else. As usual, Bill Simmons gets it right.

Like every other Red Sox fan, I defined myself by the fact that my baseball team couldn't come through when it mattered. I liked supporting a loser. Deep down, I was always terrified that they would win the World Series, only because I wouldn't have any reason to follow baseball anymore. I don't enjoy baseball, or following a team of 25 guys, or the ups and downs of a six-month season. I just thrived on that familiar pain every October when the Red Sox choked again. Now it's gone. And I'm useless.

(See how ridiculous that looks in print? We just wanted to be another baseball team again! Why can't anyone understand this? To every radio host and columnist who tried to argue the logic of the previous paragraph in the past 24 hours -- and expected people to take you seriously -- kindly stab a pencil into your neck. I'm not kidding. Jam a pencil right into your jugular vein. Do us all a favor.)

The Nation's identity wasn't "aww lovable losers here comes another heartbreak." It was more like, "man I sure do love baseball, now win a fucking World Series and make those damn Yankees and their fans shut the hell up already." Or something like that. I know that I really didn't like losing in a terrible and heartbreaking fashion every year...and I'm only 16. I think your average 60-, 70-, 80-year-old Red Sox fan wasn't all about the losing, and only wanted to see their team win it all before they die. I mean, the world seems completely different now that the Red Sox have won, and I still can't believe it and I still feel like I'm walking through a surrealist painting, but it's not because I wanted to lose. I expected the Red Sox to lose, but I never wanted them to. This year was different. Maybe we as a Nation have lost our identity, but it's okay with us. Because we're champs.

Late reply, but congrats to the Red Sox.