I LOVE THIS TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Photo lifted from Boston.com 

I’m watching Mike Lowell smoking a cigar while being interviewed on NESN.  As cray as he went, and he went crazy celebrating with the fans, he’s calm and cool and saying that they aren’t finished yet.

Re-sign this man, Theo.  Re-freaking-sign him.

It’s been a terribly shitty week or so.  Lots of personal family stuff going on that has knocked the crap out of me and most of my family.  It might sound silly to some, but something small like this has helped make a difference to us.

Alex Cora has taken the audio/video over at Fenway Park and Jonathan Papelbon is basically running around in his underwear.  I know AT LEAST four people who were supposed to be at the game tonight, and I truly hope they’re still there!

Here’s my day:

I was with my sister, in the hospital with my grandfather, from 8am to 7pm.  Included in that, was a ride in the back of an ambulance.  I got to start watching the game at 8pm and watched the Sox win.  I started watching what was close to the end of the Yankees/Orioles game, and then, for reasons I still don’t know, I put on the Phillies game and watched them win.  I fell asleep thinking, "well, it could be worse, we could be Mets fans…" and I fell asleep with the tv and all the lights on.  I woke up thinking it was much later than it was, and hit ‘last’ on my remote to see that it was the 10th inning in Baltimore with a score tied at 9.

It was pretty freaking surreal.

Watched the rest of the game, convinced Kevin Millar was going to get the winning RBI, and I think I ripped something in my throat screaming when Melvin Mora bunted in the winning run.

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox.  Congratulations to all the Red Sox fans, especially those of us who never gave up.  And, not so incidentally, up yours Yankees fans.  Especially those of you who wrote me all year long to tell me my team was going to choke.  How ironic that the Sox clinched tonight, due in part, to the  great Mariano Rivera choking.

NESN has shown all of the celebration stuff live and now they’re re-showing it on Sports Desk.  There’s something special about watching grown men act like kids.  I’m so proud of them and now I can’t wait to see the rest of what they can do.

My favorite line of the night comes from, surprise, surprise, my man Mike Timlin, in reference to watching Kevin Millar strike out in the 10th tonight:

 

 

"We were a little mad at Kevin, ‘What are you doing taking a fast ball down the middle?’" 

 

 

These guys watched the game the same way we did.  🙂

With the great news, comes relatively bad news.  No Clay Buchholz in the post-season.  I’m pleased that the team is choosing to protect him.  23 is young and we’ll have him for a while, so I don’t see rushing him through a post-season and messing him up.  Thanks for the help, Clay!

There’s still an awful lot of crappy going on in my life right now, but having these guys to use as my get away from all that is something I’m truly grateful for.  Thanks so much Red Sox (and Red Sox Nation!)!! 

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