Reference Back, Way Back...
Mike:
So I've been thinking...
Mike:
As much as love winning, love championships, indeed, I wouldn't want to have it any othah way...
Mike:
I can't help but be drawn back to the losses.
Mike:
It's like they are somehow more vivid in my mind.
Susan/Circle:
See, Larkin was so right in his "REFERENCE BACK" poem...
Susan/Circle:
"Truly, though our element is time.
Susan/Circle:
"We are not suited to the long perspectives
Open at each instant of our lives."
Susan/Circle:
"They link us to our losses..."
Mike:
To my unsatisfactory age. To my unsatisfactory prime.
Susan/Circle:
There you have it.
Sherman,set the wayback machine to 2003. ;D
Posted by: Harwich Rich | 2014.02.26 at 09:23 AM
This makes me want to download old Steve Winwood and get mellow.
(While there is time/Let us go out and do everything. SW)
Posted by: Cmdrflake | 2014.02.26 at 09:23 AM
Indeed, Cmdrflake, although I disagree with your choice, music is the one thing that DOES link us to those losses, and that unsatisfactory age/prime.
Posted by: Bob | 2014.02.26 at 09:27 AM
Steve Winwood or some "antique negroes"
Posted by: Harwich Rich | 2014.02.26 at 09:29 AM
luke, you have broken free of the dark side.
(and yes, 1977, a year when 97 wins only bought you a tie for second)
Posted by: Paul in DC | 2014.02.26 at 09:30 AM
I still stew about a playoff game we lost when I was coaching my son's little league team. Extra innings we scored 3 runs in the top half and then gave up 4 in the bottom of the inning to lose. And then there is 2003 Game 7. Don't get me started on Grady Little.
Posted by: soxinsix | 2014.02.26 at 09:38 AM
The futah never comes.
The past is always with us.
Go RedSox.
lc
Posted by: lc | 2014.02.26 at 09:50 AM
I'm not the only one who still has Aaron Fucking Boone flashbacks?
Posted by: ponch | 2014.02.26 at 10:56 AM
This just in-Atlanta Braves pitcher Mike Minor is resting comfortably from Dickhole surgery (also known as Tommy Dong surgery).He and his dick are expected to make a full recovery and pitch this season.
Posted by: Harwich Rich | 2014.02.26 at 12:19 PM
Was it Barry or Gene Larkin who wrote that poem?
Posted by: David Pinto | 2014.02.26 at 01:19 PM
Unsatisfactory prime? Oh, great. Now I'm all melancholy and shit. Where are my Marvin Gaye albums?
Posted by: Rob in CT | 2014.02.26 at 01:38 PM
Ahhhh. "Inter City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"
That's better...
Posted by: Rob in CT | 2014.02.26 at 01:40 PM
Bob will be glad to note that the butler put on the Rolling Stones very first CD, and mused about how the '64 Sox sucked seriously.
I kinda prefer the softer music. But, from my favorite place among the dust bunnies under the couch, it sounds better to me.
Posted by: Chairman Meow | 2014.02.26 at 02:09 PM
Aaron fucking Boone? I still have Bill Buckner flashbacks. I can tell you in detail where I was on that fateful night.
Posted by: COD | 2014.02.26 at 04:40 PM
Me, too, COD. The Pig & Whistle on 48th St. in Manhattan. It was a long train ride back to Brooklyn that night.
Ok, h.b. No more memory lane trips for a while, okay? Hey, we're WS Champions! No more moping.
Posted by: Rob in CT | 2014.02.26 at 04:51 PM
@cat Rolling Stones never issued a "first cd". They were LP's.
Posted by: lc | 2014.02.26 at 05:32 PM
lc, he's not aware of LPs and their fabulous artwork, being too young. CDs are all he's aware of. I haven't had a turntable since I lost it to one of my Long Island princesses long before his great, great gran'pa was around, bossing people around acting like he's superior to humans.
Posted by: Cmdrflake | 2014.02.26 at 06:57 PM
What does Barry Larkin know about "losses" and an "unsatisfactory prime"? He never even PLAYED for the Red Sox.
Posted by: Matman | 2014.02.27 at 07:57 AM