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betty - 2004-10-28 01:41:07
The cardinals choked :(.
You beat us man. You beat us.
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alyssa - 2004-10-28 01:57:02
dude, this is cheesy but i was seriously touched by that. at first, i just thought it was cool that the red sox finally won but this really means something to a lot of people. fabulous entry, not (just) because of the writing, but because of how honestly and coherently you made me feel--even if it's on the most more superficial of levels--what you feel. and now i must stop the cheesy bullshit (every word of which i mean) before i induce my own vomiting. but really. thanks for sharing that.
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Monica - 2004-10-28 07:03:48
It's funny, when i read that Boston had won, i thought of you. Yay for the Red Sox.
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HRT - 2004-10-28 08:11:05
I hadn't really thought about it, but it's true. There is a real bittersweet surrealism about this whole event. Meaning that no matter how great it is/was, that now things are different. It is a fundamentally different world, now that the loveable losers are no more.
Well no more in Boston, now there is only one underdog team of great remorse in the nation, and that is the "great Chicago cubs." Still no matter what happens BoSox fans will always be able to say that they beat their curse before the Cubbies did.
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BigPimpinMBA - 2004-10-28 08:29:51
You were the first diary I hit today because I knew you would be writing about the Sox and writing well. You didn't disappoint. I can't claim to have been a long-suffering B's fan, but I'm not a 2004 bandwagoneer either. I had a hard time sleeping after last year's Game 7, when Grady Little refused to acknowledge that Pedro was well past his pitch count where he could even be considered anywhere near effective and let him get slapped all over Yankee stadium. Even with the World Series win, it still hurts. I know what you mean about the loveable loser being gone, but I think you'll feel better about the Sox position in the Cosmos once the first pitch is thrown against the Yankees next year. The reason to continue loving the Sox is just a few hours to your southwest. A torurous few hours down I-95. The Yankees. The Sox will be the perennial underdogs to the Yankees simply for economic reasons. This will keep me on the Sox express for the foreseeable future. Congratulations to you and all of the long-suffering Sox fans. If the Sox were going to end the seemingly endless curse, they did it in the most dramatic way possible. Coming back and pulling off the biggest comeback in baseball history against the Yankees. Awesome. Go Sox.
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Katie - 2004-10-28 08:31:21
Have a hug, sir: it's both congratulatory and consoling. Asterisk hug asterisk.
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Gumphood - 2004-10-28 08:38:45
2090 is 86 years from today. Think about that.
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Gumphood - 2004-10-28 08:43:11
Because of the new Rivalry the Sox will be loved, but its diffrent. Now we are equals, the Yanks and the Sox. The outcome undetermined, it will remain exciting. But it is like the Diffrence between Rocky 1 and every other Rocky... The first time is the best. Sure it will be exciting and a good fight, but the first time is the best. (How do you top the greatest comeback in history?)
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Sandy - 2004-10-28 08:46:57
The Cardinals choked like they were trying to swallow the world's biggest apple whole. The Sox deserved to beat us, as much as I hate to say it.
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Procrasto - 2004-10-28 09:03:28
What a great angle on this, Gumper. I too thought of you as the bottom of the ninth wound down. There was a dude in the bar in a Boston ballcap in tears.
So what happens now?
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Ange - 2004-10-28 09:32:48
I do understand the bittersweetness, but what a high for the Red Sox and the fans right now! History was truly made last night. How exciting that we got to witness it! (And yeah, I did think of how the Cubs are the successors to the cursed throne now.)
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Kristina - 2004-10-28 09:45:06
I'm seriously like close to tears here after reading that. Because even though I don't know what it's like and I can never relate to being a Boston fan, I am a baseball fan and so all that means something to me. Ironically for all the Yankees success, they have not won a world series since I've been a serious fan. They won in 2000 and I watched but had just gotten married a few months prior and had to watch it alone while my husband was in boot camp. So when we moved to NJ the next year is when I became a fan, because I got to watch every single game. I know I'm not a bandwagoner, I tell people I'm a Yankee fan through marriage! But what I wanted to say is that my dad is one of those 2nd generation Sox fans like you're dad. He's since committed the cardinal sin of becoming a Yankee fan a few years ago. But he said he would never see this in his life, and last night he told me he wished he could be driving through New England this weekend if they won. He may have switched his allegiance along the way, but secretly I think his heart still lies in Boston.
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kevin - 2004-10-28 10:39:46
Thanks for that! Thats all I can say right now, thanks for writing that. How awesome was it to talk to your grandparents? Its amazing. Amazing
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Mark Bellhorn - 2004-10-28 10:50:45
Keep the Faith
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Ellen - 2004-10-28 10:51:34
When the Sox won last night, I thought of you up there in Boston. :)
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wondermart - 2004-10-28 11:11:47
publish that. anywhere.
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uNCLEPUMPKIn - 2004-10-28 12:00:56
I still think the world should have exploded at the end of the game.
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bathtubmary - 2004-10-28 12:06:04
that was great. i understand your bittersweet feelings about this victory and this team. but i'm enjoying the hell out of the win. there is only today. xo, d
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Pandionna - 2004-10-28 13:11:01
Hang on to all the newspapers, too! Great entry, Gump. (Also, ya gotta have more feedback on my soapbox today than that. You're a GUY. Tell me a guy's point of view. Does it or does it not drive a man batty when his girlfriend gets all bent out of shape over an ex that he's friends with? I hope no guy ever pulls that crap with me about Dan. I hate that insecure stuff.)
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Aeryn - 2004-10-28 13:14:12
Of course you could have written about the beautiful full lunar eclipse we had last night (that I actually got to see because it was clear) that won't happen again until 2008 (and of course, it'll probably be raining here), or you could have written about just about ANYTHING else....but you wrote about the Red Sox. Very Gump. Normally, I hate baseball, but I wouldn't trade your happy jubilating raves for anything.:)
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Sass - 2004-10-28 14:14:56
Powerful. Touching. Great writing. First time here, won't be my last.
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Nadia - 2004-10-28 14:23:53
That was awesome. I'm glad you liked my entry too. It's awesome that there are people who can relate. I suggest reading Bill Simmon's column on espn.com if you don't already. He knows how we feel.
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jennifer - 2004-10-28 15:16:10
Enjoy the moment, for the moment soon, too, will be gone, and it's a hard-won moment. Different, yes, but still good.
(Incidentally, I am a strange sort of fan--not quite newcomer, since I was raised in the church of the Baseball Jesus, but not quite third-generation, since I watched for many years out of obligation. I listened to my dad *every year* that the Sox lost the opener tell my mom the same stupid joke about no beer at Fenway, I slowky learned to like not just the Sox but the game. And I cried at the sight of the people rejoicing in the streets of Kenmore Square last night. Go Sox--how many days 'til spring training?)
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Sarah - 2004-10-28 15:50:17
Well gump, in spite of myself I am happy for you. :) I'm just going to pray for the day when the Yankees trade A-Rod's arrogant ass and I can respect them again. That is, if the world doesn't end very soon, which I'm pretty sure might happen.
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cloudy - 2004-10-28 18:29:21
Am I Happy for you or am I Sad for you?
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laural - 2004-10-28 18:36:58
just great, love. great writing...hugs. L
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yankees fan - 2004-10-29 14:18:25
that sucked, you sucking suck suck
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Alice Rod - 2004-10-29 14:49:10
I can't spell my own last name cause I suck.
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bethany - 2004-10-29 16:05:15
outstanding writing. gave me chills. i know of heartbreak, living out here in wrigleyville. i can't grasp how it would be if the cubs swept the world series. but you put it into such beautiful words.
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kelly - 2004-10-29 16:18:07
I want to print this entry out and put it up on my wall. its wonderful. I dont even have my normal stupid or smart ass comment. This was just perfect.
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oomm - 2004-11-02 14:01:20
This series was rough for me. I'm not a sports fan. I've been to a few games, it's more about the nice day out and the peanuts for me, but when the sox started to play the yankees I felt like I had to get in there and watch and root. I knew that the fans who lived and died with every pitch and swing resented me but here's why I did it, my life would be uneffected by the outcome. I would not have a sense of pride about living near a city where a bunch of guys hit a ball better than a different bunch of guys. However, I loved my daddy.
I grew up watching my father practically crawl into his radio, or his tv, yelling and screaming with each victory or defeat. My dad was mild mannered and a gentleman, he never lost his cool, except if the redsox were playing ball. Oh he was good natured about it, or neighbor and his good friend a yankees fans and on game nights you could hear the taunts, each man in his own front yard, in his own lawn chair, with his own radio in the window, battling across the street, loving every minute of it.
My father died 12 years ago. I didn't watch the game so I could say I saw the big one. I didn't watch so I could pretend I'd watched all along. I watched because my dad watched with me, in my heart and I felt the jubilation FOR him. I held my breath and cheered BECAUSE of the memories and the sense of love and family.
So don't be too tough on us bandwagoners, some of us are just place holders for the real fans who couldn't be there to cheer for themselves.
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Michele - 2005-04-07 12:08:44
I just moved to LA from Boston and I miss Beantown already. I was in Kenmore Square for the ALCS last year, I was in Kenmore Square for Game 4 of the World Series, and I was in the city for the huge celebration parade. I came across your entry through the diarist awards, and I'm so glad I did. Trying to explain why the win was bittersweet to some other people has been hard, but you did it beautifully. Yankees Suck. Go Sox.
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Maggie Aleisa's Friend - 2005-04-07 20:51:43
GREAT WORK! Between the Sox and the Pats...what are we Boston fans going to bitch about now?
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