Sweet Sweep

BILL LAMBERT

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Monday, October 29. 2007

Sorry if anyone tuned in to see me gloat. We had house guests over the weekend, and I didn't get in much blog time.

My summertime family, the Boston Red Sox, won the big prize for the second time in my lifetime.

The first one was sweet, but this one was even sweeter. I liked this team more... a lot more then the 2004 crew. Perhaps the Nation is now more in concert: team management, the players, the fans and even the media. I was never a fan of that "Cowboy Up" schtick, and just like this team better. I think it was the kids. There were a lot of kids playing well, the hope of the future, and interesting side dramas: John Lester's recovery from lymphoma, Beckett's rise to dominance, Schilling re-inventing himself, and the development of Hideki Okajima as an All-Star and one of the premiere set-up men in the game.

And finally, everyone got used to Manny, the Rain Man of Major League Baseball.

Rumor has it that Disney has Johnny Depp under contract to star as Jacoby Ellsbury in the new classic blockbuster, "Red Sox of the Caribbean".

Terry Francona, flying on some kind of prescient genius magic carpet, managed the series perfectly. People have learned to be more patient, and give the master room to work. He was simply brilliant.

So, the season is over. The parade gives us closure, a final tribute to our heros for a job well done.

Posted by Bill Lambert in Red Sox at 10:27 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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