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Even with Harvard’s sudden preponderance of Red Sox fans, turnout in campus JCRs was surprisingly lackluster for this year’s baseball playoffs. But, really, who has time to watch a whole baseball game nowadays? Especially as national networks take over for playoff broadcasts, games are getting so long that they rarely end on the same day they began. Major League Baseball should be happy that its postseason can inspire solidarity among even casual observers (the cons of the “bandwagon” aside). But when fandom requires such a time commitment, it scares...
...modern era is setting records in the other direction. The longest regulation game in history was played in 2006 between the Red Sox and New York Yankees. It lasted four hours and 45 minutes. And the same two teams fell just two minutes short of that record in another game this season. The mark they broke (4:27) was set in 2001. With over 100 years of baseball history, that’s an awful lot of distinction for just this decade...
Shortly after Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon delivered his signature slider to strike out Seth Smith of the Colorado Rockies for the final out of the World Series last night, Harvard’s Red Sox faithful poured out of every crevice of the campus to join in on the festivities happening in the Square. With the Harvard Band leading the way, Sox fans cheered their second World Series title in four years, proudly chanting the names of their icons and providing perhaps the loudest rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline?...
...look, Red Sox Nation. Your team is becoming everything you used to hate...
...Boston Red Sox have swept the last two World Series in which they've appeared. The last team to achieve that feat was the New York Yankees, who won eight straight in the 1998 and '99 Fall Classics. Last off-season, the Sox overpaid for two free agents, outfielder J.D. Drew (five years, $70 million) and Japanese pitching phenom Daisuke Matsuzaka (six years, $52 million), just like the damn Yankees usually do. These players, however, did produce in the post-season: Drew's grand slam against the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series helped propel...