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...extra-inning game from the 2004 ALCS masquerading as an election wasn’t telling enough for you; if hypnotically inspecting the colors red and blue on the same screen as you watched Games 4 and 5 of Red Sox-Yankees wasn’t suitably prophetic; if being awake in the wee hours of Wednesday morning to watch white guys trying to defeat other white guys wasn’t good enough; here are a couple of reasons why autumn should be incredible for the sports universe...
Every year brought another excellent Red Sox team, a great regular season and a heart-breaking loss to the Yankees in the playoffs...
Though they’re still giddy from their recent victory, I’m sure many Red Sox fans can still quote a thousand and one times when a World Series title was within grasp, when one more strike, one less error, meant victory, when the only possible reason that a championship banner didn’t get hung at Fenway was the existence of a curse...
...late-night Sunday meeting in a deserted Mt. Auburn Street building, Maureen D. Connolly ’06 leaned back in her chair and tried to move things along. The Red Sox had not yet won the World Series, and she wanted to make sure she and the four other girls in the room got to watch the game...
...lesson in perseverance, we turn to none other than the Red Sox. Those who would chastise me for juxtaposing the most resounding political blow of our generation with baseball, I say two things: First, sports are a good, if trite, metaphor for life; and second, fandom can teach us a lot about the human spirit. “The time will come” became a Red Sox mantra. Down and out for 86 years, millions of fans spanning generations didn’t stop cheering. Down three games to the Yankees, the Sox triumphed and went on to beat...