Still beyond words

Hart Brachen, strip author:
On this one year anniversary of one of the most momentous and glorious events of our Red Sox fan lives, let's rejoice again in being part of the "The Greatest Comeback in the History of Sport."

 

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Comments

[Devine]

Oh Pat, you're going to pretend the Red Sox aren't as "important" as any other team to the Yankees? Bullshit. That's a lot of fuckin' history re-write. Why don't you consult all of the players for both teams through the years or the majority of both fanbases and ask them if they think there's a difference between the Yankees playing the Marlins ("just another Wild Card team that happened to win the WS") and the Yankees playing the Red Sox? That "1918" thing was on for years, and you claim we aren't/weren't important to you? That still gonna be the case if you beat us in 7 games in the ALCS next year? The Red Sox (former) status as consistent loser to your (former) consistent winner was very much a part of what defined both fanbases.

All right, I'm done addressing him/her/it. Sorry to drag the tone down there, h.b. The Red Sox beat the Yankees (a year ago and it still feels good)!

[tessie]

I wish I'd seen this on the anniversary date but it still brought a tear to my eye!

[RonF]

After the 2003 ALCS loss, my brother-in-law, a Chicago transplant to the NY area who turncoated against the Chicago White Sox and became an MFY fan, called my house when I was not home and sang "New York, New York" into my answering machine.

A couple of days after the glorious ending of the 2004 ALCS, he made the mistake of calling his sister when I was home. Once I realized who she was talking to, I yelled "GIMME THAT PHONE", grabbed it from her (she forgave me) and blew him shit until I ran out of breath.

The night of the 2004 ALCS's final game I called my 80 year old father, who never thought he'd see the day. He is now the proud possessor of an "A-Rod slaps balls" T-shirt that he wears every time I can get to Indy to visit. I've got to get you guys a picture. I also called my daughter, who's going to grad school in Boston. She was raised a White Sox fan, but 5 years on Boston made her a Red Sox fan too. She was in a bar and between the noise, the cell phone, and our mutual drunkeness it was hard to communicate. But the emotion was there!

This year, I flew in from Chicago, my brother-in-law drove up from New Jersey, and he and I and his sister/my wife and his kid (an MFY fan, poor kid) went to the game at Fenway that was Schill's first appearance in relief after coming off the DL the second time, the one where A-Fraud hit a homer off Schill to help the MFY win 8-6. His kid tried the "26 Championships" line on me, but "Biggest choke in baseball history" shut him up. I believe it will continue to shut him up for about, oh, until I die. His old man rode me a bit on the loss but knew better than to bring up history.

[JimmyZ]

Pat-

Why are you on a Red Sox blog again?

"------Long before we lost last year I made a conscious decision to never let myself define the Yankees or my feelings about the Yankees in the context of anything that has to do with the Sox. To do so artificially elevates the Sox, and places far too much import on them.--------"

Your denial is painfully obvious. You're an idiot- get over it.