From Away

Even though I’m not much of a baseball fan anymore (due to the player’s strike, and the fact that Canadian teams have done nothing since the early ‘90’s), I couldn’t help but get excited for the Boston Red Sox throughout this fall’s MLB playoffs. I mean, it’s an amazing story, starting with the series between the Sox and the Yankees: the curse of the Bambino, the 86 year drought, and the Red Sox down 3–0 and coming back to win the series. After that incredible feat, no one was absolutely sure if the Red Sox were going to in fact break the curse because the were facing the St. Louis Cardinals, who won 105 regular season games. For a team that won that many games during the regular season, the Cards just seemed to fall apart in the presence of the Red Sox. It was especially noticeable in the game on Tuesday evening. One event from that game that comes to mind was the little run-down that St. Louis pitcher Jeff Suppan got himself into.

I could ramble on more about the games, the series, but I guess the point of all of this is to say congratulations to the Red Sox. It took 86 years, a curse, and a massive error by Bill Buckner in game 6 of the ‘86 World Series to get here, but they finally broke the curse of the Bambino.