Friday, October 17, 2008

"We're going to Tampa..!!!"

This is why you don't leave the game just because they're behind at the top of the 7th.
This is why you can't throw in the towel and call it a season on your team.

Because sometimes, you have a group of guys with unbelievable heart and who refuse to give up on themselves.

You know, I have to admit I was starting to say to myself (and to those I was blogging with) "you know, this isn't exactly the way I thought this game was going to go...."


They were hitting. They were getting on base. I really thought it was just a matter of time...but would that moment come? It only takes one great play to shift the momentum and revitalize the hearts of the crowd -- and renew the energy on the bench.

And finally, in the 7th -- that long overdue hit for Big Papi came. And it was a whole new game from there.

That's what so special about this Red Sox organization. The guys on this team (for the most part) are just dirt dogs. They grind it out....and that's what wins games.

Truthfully, I got some satisfaction out of watching Tampa's bench looking...humbled.
How dare they laugh at us.

They're the new kids on the block. They're still wet behind the ears....they don't have a clue about post-season ball.

So bring on the cowbells. Keep shaving your heads, Tampa fans.
But ask yourself this: who holds the post season come back record in all of baseball history?
No amount of runs is a safe lead in post season game with this team.

They "reversed the curse".
Surely, they can sting the Rays.

3 comments:

Greg said...

What a great game. I think I wore a hole in my rug in the living room floor doing my "quiet" (can't wake up the wife and kids) victory dance.

Can't wait for Saturday.

Greg
Red Sox Ramblings: http://thevendahhh.mlblogs.com

David Sullivan said...

I've never left a sox game before the last pitch and I've gone to a couple of hundred games.

I have never shut the TV off on my boys, but I have nodded off only to get the score in the AM.

After the top of the 7th I switched over to see what was on Cinemax and the movie "The Boxer" was just starting. I couldn't bear to watch anymore of the tortuous game, so I stayed with the movie. A half hour later I checked the game, but it was a commercial, so I assumed they were in the post game and went back to the movie. I could wait till the morning to watch TB spraying champagne on each other. As the movie was ending I switched over and expected to catch some scintilating TBS post game analysis and there was JD. I was thinking "why are they interviewing the losers out on the field?", then I noticed the fans were screaming and then it hit me...the sox won...I thought I had fallen asleep and was dreaming...I spent the next hour watching the replays in disbelief. I'll never give up again. The one time I do and they mount the greatest comeback in history, aaagghhh!

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