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...season and the AC-DC front man sang at the wedding. It was very glitzy; Johnny has moved over from SI to People magazine and the cover of EW. He said he wants to be an actor one day, and no one doubts he will be. The Sox as World Champions are kind of the anti-Pats-Tom Terrific and a bunch of hardworking lunch-pail teammates. The Sox are cartoon characters and superheroes. Ortiz, Ramirez, Schilling: larger than life in personality and, in Curt's case, with an ego to match. Damon's everyone's darling. Varitek is like...
...That sure was exciting: The third Super Bowl win, Brady and Brewski and Two-way Brown in exultation. But as I say, for many of us New England-born-and-bred, it came in what is largely considered the Red Sox' off-season. Our Golden Boy quarterback, who's starring this weekend on Saturday Night Live (we own New York at the moment), complained to his dad that the Pats could be in the middle of a seven-game win streak, and the Globe would lead with a bit about the Sox moving the 40th man on their winter roster...
...Everyone around this team is somebody. "Do you think," I mused to a friend as the Sox bandwagon kept gaining steam through January and February, the SI Sportsmen of the Year Award in the satchel, Schilling on FOX every night giving opinions on every issue from the Republican Party's the way to go to why the Steelers should cream the Patriots in Pittsburgh. (Curt bugged me more than a time or two during the off-season.) "Do you think that we're turning into one of those national teams? Like the Cowboys or Lakers or Yankees? I wonder...
...spring training, though there were further hints. The Queer Eye for the Straight Guy guys visited Fort Myers, and remade Johnny, Bronson and three or four others (show to air in June.) That was the biggest news out of the camp, though a few smaller items were interesting: The Sox were dedicated to remaining forevermore in Fenway (great!) even as future renovations added seats here and there, and ticket prices-already baseball's highest-continued to escalate. Schilling wouldn't be ready for the opener in Yankee Stadium and Wells would start in his place. The rotation would...
...late March, all sorts of sonorous media drumbeating began. Apparently Stephen King had failed to clear the field, and there were a gazillion new Red Sox books coming out. (Mercenary opportunists!) There was a new Sox HBO documentary on reversing the curse, there was a new Sox feature film starring Drew and Jimmy and directed by the Farrellys (true fans, at least, those Providence boys). And there was, principally, the opening day bash at the Stadium approaching: Sunday night, April 3, nationwide, prime time. The players had barely finished their stretches, and it felt like October all over again...