Red Sox win the 2007 AL Pennant
Red Sox win the 2007 AL Pennant
And the nightmare continues. To be totally honest, it’s not a nightmare anymore, although I will admit I lost sleep last night about it. Not so much because the Red Sox won, but because what the Sox are going through is exactly what the Yanks went through in the second half of the 1990s, and I know how much fun it can be. I also now know how awful it must have been for Red Sox fans during those times, only worse. At least the Yankees, while a long drought, had won a couple in the 77 and 78. For a Red Sox fan to sit and watch the Yanks in the late 90s be so dominant must have been torture. So for me, its not torture as much as a little embarrassing, especially with the crap I now have to take from local Sox fans.
Weird things happen to the Sox that make them win. Like the third base coach holding Lofton at third when he would have easily score. Or plays going the Sox way and against the Indians. Same for the Yanks from 1996 to 2001. Even in 2003, they looked good until they were so beat up from that classic Red Sox ALCS series that they lost to the Marlins.
I knew after Beckett won in Cleveland that it was over for the Indians. They are a young team and the big games got to them. The Sox had momentum shifting the other way and both teams won 3 in a row. Only the Sox won the most important three.
So now it is on to the Rockies, which the Red Sox will kill. My prediction is worse than 2004 against the Cardinals. Sox win 4 in a row and in a crushing fashion. The Rockies have been sitting idle for over a week and no way they can continue the pace they have been on. The Sox are playing with confidence, a swagger and have been here before.
So congrats to the Red Sox. The Yankees will have their turn again in the future, history has shown us that. And while I might not like the Red Sox being in the playoffs, I don’t think I am going to lose sleep over it anymore, nothing I can do about it.