Red Sox Win The World Series!!!

If there was ever a year since 1776 that it was great to be a Bostonian, this is the year! Well that is for Boston’s sports fans anyway: Boston College is ranked second in the nation in college football. The Patriots are embarrassing every team they play and even my beloved Celtics (who’ve been laughed at since the early 90’s) present a positive outlook (with a charming nick-name-the PGA Tour) for the coming season. And of course, there’s also our beloved Boston who Red Sox won the 103rd World Series last night, sweeping the Colorado Rockies in four games: Game 1: Red Sox won 13-1 @ Fenway. Game 2: Red Sox won 2-1 @ Fenway. Game 3: Red Sox won 10-5 in Denver. Game 4: Red Sox won 4-3 in Denver.

They say Boston’s 2004 World Series win (the first in 80+ years) was for the older fans of the team who’d waited patiently, last night Terry Francona and the Sox won one for won one for the Red Sox Nation (from the Dominican Republic to Japan to right here in the States).
Hats off to the World Series Champs and the World Series MVP, Boston’s third-baseman, Mike Lowell! Let’s not talk about it right now, but I don’t see how you can give up the team RBI leader, World Series MVP. Then again, this is a business and it would appear that Bill James’ protégé Theo Epstein is onto something.

Btw, I love what Dan Shaughnessy wrote in the Globe today: “If you go to a high school graduation in New England in the Year 2026, you will hear a lot of Jacobys, Dustins, Jonathans, and Hidekis when they call the roll.”-I guess we’ll have to wait and see.