Re-post and revised from my original PC Home

http://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/news/scliao/3/1242071107/20041101140932/


GAME 1: BOSTON 11, ST. LOUIS 9
GAME 2: BOSTON 6, ST. LOUIS 2
GAME 3: BOSTON 4, ST. LOUIS 1
GAME 4: BOSTON 3, ST. LOUIS 0

After spending whole night in the victorious atmosphere, then the whole day like a walking ghost in the office, I feel there is no better timing for me to start writing. I was thinking about writing while McGuire hit number 62, or the Diamondbacks win after 911. And this time, it is for real. I am not even a Red Sox fan...

October 27, 2004, one of the biggest days for die hard baseball fans, like me. Boston, the soul of New England, American’s Blue-Blood region, finally sees her beloved baseball team broke “The curse of Bambino"*. Eighty-six years of the curse finally got reversed. The Boston Red Sox finally won the Major League Baseball World Series.

How big is it? . For the three hours I spent on the road yesterday, I couldn’t get enough of comments, or the call ins on the sports talk show. When I got home after work, and tune in to“Sports Center”** from ESPN, there was basically nothing but the Red Sox related news. Red Sox, Curt Schilling, Pedro Martinez, or even any little known Red Sox players were the center of all the talks.

How big is it? Parade was set for Friday, October 29, 2004***, but was postponed because they anticipate about 5 million people to show up. The postponed it because there were so many people planed to go home watching the anticipated game 6, or 7 with their family, grandparents, parents, and whoever took them into Red Sox Nation. This is how big it is.

Imaging 1918 was so much a completely different world. Most of us were not even born yet. Many story about the WWII veterans, went to Europe for WWII, and only wished they would live long enough to see Red Sox win it all. A lady, 80 years old, 40 years season ticket holder of Red Sox, interviewed by Fox during the game four, knew the whole history inside out. She was able to name lots of plays about how Red Sox-Mets series in 1986. She looks so calm, and still working her score book and watching the game when they interview her. She lost her husband couple years ago, but kept some really fond memory about wactching the game with him until he was too ill. It was just one of those people in Red Sox Nation, who have story to share. A 35 years old called in to one famous Radio Show, saying in 1986 after he finished crying so badly after the loss. His grandpa told him, good things would worth the wait. It is really worth it. How many of us look back the history, look at what has happened since 1918. Could you imaging how people watch the game then, or how people go to the game, and even how people get to know anything about some stories in th league.

It is a happy day for the Redsox Nation, the one occupies every corner of the United States They are so loyal to the team. Sitting in the Oakland A’s game with Bosox, you feel more like in Boston. Their fans are so strongly bound with that 86 years of wait. Watching game of ALCS in an San Jose sports bar , you found yourselvs in the middle of New English. It was all about their loves to the Red Sox. It was one of the things people would like to put on their "Top 50 things to do in your life", not a baseball game.

Now, these “Band of Idiot” did the improbable. They did it with their unstylish long hair, beard, the un-tugged jerseys, and the helmets all the reasonable parents want to throw into dish washer. They did it, in style. The way nobody did it before. It was definitely not the Yankee neat and tight style, but the loose, relax and even silly one. Maybe this is exactly what it takes to break a 86 old curse. They won it because they have faith. They won it because they have Curt Schilling. They won it because they have heart!