After 86 years, the Red Sox are finally getting their rings.
Making the moment even sweeter for long-suffering fans at Fenway Park, the New York Yankees will have to watch as they visit Boston for the opener of a three-game series.
It seems almost fitting that the ring ceremony honoring Boston's long-awaited title should take place in front of the team that helped extend the Red Sox's drought for so many years.
The outlook was ecstatic for the Beantown Boys that day,
They were back at home in Fenway where the Yankees came to play.
Be sure may you that each one knew life's filled with wond'rous things;
As at home in grand old Fenway the Bo'Sox got their rings.
And from the stands a cry did raise - nigh bright as eggs on Easter:
"Now come on Boys, the curse is gone -
Let's kick some Yankee keister!"
(With humblest apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer.)
Congrates Doug, I've been a long time Yankee
Fan by family heritage, but from going to college
near Boston and living in Vermont 25 years I switched to Red Sox. Now back home,
the Yankees are my team. Damn, those Red Sox
are doing really well, I love it! I Love Baseball! GO
Yankees! GO Red Sox! I love em all.
I used to be a Yankee fan myself Nancie... It got to be no fun though after Billy Martin died, and Steinbrenner couldn't fire him anymore.
Those were the days: When 7 was everybody's lucky number, and if you didn't believe it, just watch Mantle on the diamond.
One of my favorite baseball cards, tucked somewhere in an album, is a "manager's card" for Leo Duroscher years after he'd left "the Bums." (Now if Brooklyn ever gets another team, I'll be a New York fan again!)
doug65oh @ Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:21 am wrote:After 86 years, the Red Sox are finally getting their rings.
Making the moment even sweeter for long-suffering fans at Fenway Park, the New York Yankees will have to watch as they visit Boston for the opener of a three-game series.
As a fourth-generation Phillies fan, constitutionally inured to disaster, I'm glad to see the Red Sox flaunting those rings.
The last time the Red Sox were World Champions, Lizzie was alive.
Lynn
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. --Edward Abbey
