October 18, 2004

Red Sox Nation

Eric Wilbur of the Boston Globe and all of Beantown are in a collective state of disbelief -- or is it belief? -- this morning after an improbable Red Sox comeback in the wee hours. A 12th inning walk-off home run, coming after five hours of baseball at 1:30 a.m., lifted the "Sawx" to a victory over the Yankees and avoided a sweep in the American League Championship series. Aces Wild as Momentum Shifts [Boston.com].

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But now the Red Sox nation is taking hope just a little too far. Wilbur writes this morning:

Remember where Boston was last year when it returned to Yankee Stadium for the final two games of the ALCS. In a 3-2 hole. And that time they came but five outs away from the World Series. As improbable a collapse as that was, could we possibly be on the brink of the greatest playoff comeback in the history of professional sports?

Sorry, Charlie. No one has ever done it before in baseball, and these "idiot" Sox are not going to be the first ones. They're just playing out the string.

 Posted by glenn

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