Go SOX

You'd think I'd be freaking out.....the Red Sox just dropped yet another one run game to the Kansas City Royals (yep - the frakking ROYALS) while the Yankees "edged" Toronto 6-1 to creep within 7 games of first place. Here we go again.......I say again - you'd think I'd be freaking out.....but I'm not. The thing is I LOVE the Sox and watching them play just well enough to lose and continue their post all-star case of the shits....it sucks. But I was watching TV this morning before work and I came across the last 20 minutes or so of the HBO special "Reverse the Curse of the Bambino". In case you can't guess it's an hour long special about the Red Sox 2004 post season and their World Championship. I happened to turn it on right near the end of game 4 just as Brian Roberts stole 2nd base and watched it through the game 6 highlights of Curt Schilling's bloody sock. Since I needed to finish getting ready for work I pressed the record button on the DVR vowing silently to watch it later when I had time.

Fast forward to about 30 minutes ago. I'm looking for something to watch and I see I have 11 minutes of the RtCotB on DVR. So I of course fire it up. I'm watching it and smiling and then crying - like I always do when thinking and talking about the 2004 ALCS and World Series and I realize - no matter how the Red Sox are doing these days or how they do for years to come - nothing can ever take away the memories and the feelings that incredible 2004 team inspired. They will always make me smile and that little 8 game slice of baseball history will always mean the world to me.

Go Sox.