sophie's fair

i'm back... with a vengeance (like the red sox). i feel that i have hybernated enough, i was a little irresponsible and kinda got caught up with the events in my life that i set aside my blog and just posted what i wanted without thoroughly exercising my brain (thoughtlessly putting my readers to sleep).
so, what better way to warm up my brain than to start off with the boston red sox?... yea, you go, you sexy thing!
no amount of chanting, or cursing could stop the red sox. "it was the greatest comeback in baseball history", red sox owner john henry said.
yankee fans were stunned as the greatest night drew to a close. wearing a t-shirt with a logo "Hey Red Sox... who's your daddy?" -- and screaming it, didnt help the yankees to tie the score. and i guess, since halloween is just around the corner, yankee fans wanted to scare off the red sox "reminding" them of the curse of the bambino with babe ruth's life-sized pictures held in midair.

Nothing whacky happened. No ball through someone's legs, no errant throw, no sudden breeze from the supposed ghosts of Yankee Stadium. Just a simple throw by Pokey Reese to first and the Red Sox were the American League champions.
-- Steve Wilstein

well, it seems the curse is finally broken, and about time. people were talking and already theorizing on the eve of the game. on my way home, i said a little prayer that God must've heard, i prayed the red sox would win.

May the Lord grant all your requests.
-- Psalm 20:5

i almost felt sorry for the bewildered yankees as the boston red sox turned history on its head for the very first time after decades of losing. almost, but not quite. after all, the yankees had instilled so much heartache and pain among the boston fans and team players for such a long time that the torture has got to end... and it did end last night with the "evil empire" crumbling before their fans' very eyes.

All empires fall sooner or later.
-- Larry Luchino, Boston president

the red sox was to become the first major league team to overcome a 3-0 postseason series deficit. the feared yankees (already humbled after game 7 in a 10-3 shocker) watched the red sox hugging and leaping on each other on the mound.

They had a lot of heart. They never gave up. That team never dies. I give them a lot of credit.
-- Brian Cashman, Yankees general manager

now that the babe's team has been defeated by no less than the red sox, boston has a fairer chance to reverse the curse and turn it into luck, win the world series for the first time since 1918 and make the hub's joy complete. i can almost hear my best friend, a die hard red sox fan, agreeing with me. when he learned that i was watching the game, he asked me to watch a movie, instead. when i told him the red sox would win, he stressed out that i also said that last year about the red sox and they lost -- and almost hung up on me. i simply replied, "that was a fluke. the red sox will win."
hey joe... who's your lucky charm now, huh?

Boston blew away decades of defeat with four sweet swings. Believe it, New England, the Red Sox are in the World Series. And they got there with the most unbelievable comeback of all, shaming the New York Yankees, the Evil Empire to the south.
David Ortiz, Johnny Damon and Derek Lowe made sure of that.
-- Ronald Blum

did you know...
the 1948 film "The Babe Ruth Story", was rushed for release while Babe Ruth himself was still alive, which is why the movie ends the way it does. Ruth died shortly after the premiere, which he attended.
and
The scene at Yankee Stadium was shot hours before the real game was scheduled, and Babe came from his death bed to see it.