Justice!
Thursday 21 Oct 2004
The unthinkable has happened. Down 0-3 in a best of 7
series, the Red Sox came back and won the next 4 games
and the pennant - against their arch-rivals, the
Yankees, who had stopped them every time they met over
the last 80 years.
I don't even care that much whether the Red Sox win
the World Series or not. Just the fact that they made
history by doing what they did to the Yankees warms my
heart.
My top 10 reasons why this game 7 victory was sweet
justice:
10) $25 million man A-Rod's display of poor sportsmanship in game 6
9) Derek Lowe, removed from the Red Sox starting
rotation, who turned around and gave his team two
outstanding starts in crucial games
8) Johnny Damon, who was not hitting at all (3-29) in
the first six games...and then ignited the Red Sox
offense with two home runs and 6 rbi in game 7
7) George Steinbrenner, who spent a record sum of
money this year and didn't get a pennant
6) vindication for last year's ALCS game 7, which the
Yankees won with an amazing comeback
5) no team had ever come back from a 0-3 deficit to
even force a game 7, much less win it, much less win
it against their bitter rivals who everyone hates
4) all the times Derek Jeter gave the camera that
confident smirk (not to mention the MLB commercials
where he said that he enjoyed being hated by every
other team)
3) Curt Schilling, who knew that the Yankees were
actually mortal, and pitched game 6 with his bleeding
ankle stapled together to prove it
2) my girlfriend's mother, who is from Boston and has
endured untold heartbreak over the years; she was
actually crying as early as the second inning when
Boston was up 6-0
1) these Red Sox have guts and heart and finally
proved that those things count for something