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...South Bronx, but to members of Red Sox Nation, as fans of Boston's baseball team are known, they burned with particular intensity, scarlet letters on their sporting souls, because the words reminded them that the Red Sox hadn't tasted a World Series championship since Babe Ruth was the team's star player. For generations of New Englanders, it had been axiomatic: When the leaves fall, so do the Red Sox. Yet for 86 years, fans were bonded by this epic failure. It nurtured in them an almost messianic belief that somedaythis year, surely their time would come. Wherever...
...Orpheus. Though intentionally opaque and periodically über-theatrical (especially in the opening eponymous track), Lyre is never quite too much to make you cringe or laugh. Indeed, part of what makes it so intriguing is its way of doling out just enough minimalism (“Babe, You Turn Me On” and “Easy Money”) to musically temper the fact that, lyrically, this is an album built from an erudite classical myth (fittingly, perhaps, about a man who can’t make the music he wants) and which dabbles heavily...
...Yusuf Randera-Rees ’05, a tall South African with a killer hookshot, takes down challenger after challenger in quick succession. There isn’t any arrogance in his eyes, though, just the confidence of one who knows he sits at the top of his game. Babe Ruth had Yankee Stadium, George Best had Old Trafford, and Yusuf has Quincy...
...home run by Bucky (Freakin') Dent in a one-game playoff in 1978; an 11th-inning blast by Aaron (Flippin') Boone in last year's seven-game playoff heartbreaker. Why, there might even be a curse--of the Bambino, perhaps. For it was the 1920 trade of Sox star Babe Ruth to New York that sent the Yanks on their way to 26 championships while the Ruthless Red Sox went ringless and the fans nursed their creepy karma like a drunk with his last beer...
...baseball's 102-year postseason history--to win the American League Championship Series (ALCS). They advanced to the World Series against another old nemesis, the St. Louis Cardinals, who defeated the plucky Houston Astros in a similarly adventurous seven-game fracas. With the Yankee phantoms of their failures--the Babe, Bucky and Boone--momentarily exorcised, Red Sox fans could hope for a championship, lifting a psychic boulder that has both crushed and linked generations of neurotic New Englanders. "If we win, people will be crying," said Sox fan Tom Faria, celebrating at the Yankee Tavern in the Bronx after Game...