You must not surrender! We must never surrender! Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive! Keep hope alive! On tomorrow night and beyond, keep hope alive! -Jesse Jackson
Public Service Announcement: Ok, here we go! Wooo doggie! What a game, what a game. Like my main man Moonlight Graham always says, “This is my most special place in all the world, Ray. Once a place touches you like this, the wind never blows so cold again. You feel for it, like it was your child.” That’s how I’m feeling right now. That’s how I was feeling back in 2004 when Joe Buck said, “Ortiz fights it off, center field! Damon running to the plate… and he can keep on running to New York. Game 6 tomorrow night.” That’s how I was feeling last year when your Curly Headed Girlfriend wrote, “Football, basketball, and hockey will have to wait. Cancel that weekend foliage tour of North Conway and don’t lower the storm windows just yet.” And what a feeling it is.
It’s hope. Hope is the feeling we get when what is wanted can be had, or that events will turn out for the best. Events turned out for the best last night. Last night, the never say die Boston Red Sox overcame a 7-0 deficit in the seventh inning. Last night, the punch you in your eye Red Sox beat Tampa Bay in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series. Last night, the when pigs fly Boston Red Sox became the first MLB team in history to win a postseason game in which it faced elimination and trailed by a margin of six runs or more. Hoorah! That’s hope.
David Ortiz is hope. Papi Grande. Senor Octubre has been the poster child for hope in so many of these fall contests. Down. The paint is peelin’. Now. When the chips are down. Down. You gotta lose all feelin’. Now. Your head goes round n’ round. Senor Octubre crushed a Grant Balfour offering deep into the right field bleachers for a three-run yoke. And from there on in, you knew how this story would end. It would end like the Red Sox have been routinely ending do or die situations in recent postseasons. It ended in do.
The upstart Rays blew their chances to take their first trip to the World Series in franchise history. The upstart Rays added to the mystique of a ballclub whose mystique just keeps on growing and growing and growing. The upstart Rays just gave the Boston Red Sox hope. And you know what the man says. The man says, “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” You better listen what the man says. Roll Sox, roll!
Public Spectacle:
Peace out homies. Six two and even!
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