# I hope Boston wins the World Series **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 5, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748 "2004-10-05T22:49:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Scarface\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Scarface\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarface_Z)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/121 "2004-10-28T03:39:50Z")
Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Fuck You You Pieces Of Bird Shit! Sox! Sox! Sox! ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/122 "2004-10-28T03:39:53Z")
So… wait. What do you do when your team wins the world series? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/123 "2004-10-28T03:40:36Z")
Strange. It seems kind of anti-cimactic. I guess because it was such a boring series. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/124 "2004-10-28T03:41:22Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Strange. It seems kind of anti-cimactic. I guess because it was such a boring series. I’m okay with that. ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/125 "2004-10-28T03:41:23Z")
This had to be the most undramatic and boring Series ever. At least in the 40+ years I’ve been watching them. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/126 "2004-10-28T03:42:21Z")
Does this mean that the sun won’t rise tomorrow? ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/127 "2004-10-28T03:58:35Z")
[Lili Von Shtupp] How…owdinawy… [/Lili Von Shtupp] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/128 "2004-10-28T04:08:30Z")
> [@erislover](#): > > So… wait. What do you do when your team wins the world series? > > 😉 Theo Epstein said to go and get drunk. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/129 "2004-10-28T04:10:47Z")
Ok, you can shut the fuck up about the curse and the Yankees buying World Series. Boston bought this one. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/130 "2004-10-28T04:13:00Z")
> [@CBEscapee](#): > > This had to be the most undramatic and boring Series ever. At least in the 40+ years I’ve been watching them. True. The real drama was the Sox besting the Yankees. Truly a remarkable feat afetr being down 3-0. But the wonderfull thing is that not only do we not have to hear about the curse anymore, the Sox will unfurl their WS Champs banner in front of the visiting Yankees in April. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/131 "2004-10-28T04:17:02Z")
NEENER NEENER NEENER!!! For there’s rampant joy in Soxville Hell froze over! Cards are out! ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/132 "2004-10-28T04:25:25Z")
\ Daddy’s very unhappy. Oh well, the Sox were the better team in this series, and they deserved to win. Congratulations to Boston. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/133 "2004-10-28T04:26:28Z")
> [@Scarface Z](#): > > Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Fuck You You Pieces Of Bird Shit! Sox! Sox! Sox! Classy. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/134 "2004-10-28T04:31:28Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > Does this mean that the sun won’t rise tomorrow? Yes, it will. In the West. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/135 "2004-10-28T04:31:35Z")
Thank God and God everyone will stop talking about that collective piece of idiocy known as “The Curse”. ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/136 "2004-10-28T04:32:33Z")
**edwino** ’s law of conservation of good baseball: The Quantity (Q) of Good Baseball in a season is conserved. With 2 great LCSs and a few great DCSs, you can’t expect a good Series. And, as a corollary, because the Sox finally managed to pull one out, of course it is going to stink as bad as any in the past 86 years. At least they smote the Cards. (Astros fan) ---
**Author:** ![MMI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@MMI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MMI)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/137 "2004-10-28T04:33:32Z")
> [@Kel Varnsen - Latex Division](#): > > Ok, you can shut the fuck up about the curse and the Yankees buying World Series. > Boston bought this one. Hmm. To get to the Cards(~$83m), the Sox (~$125m) beat the #3 payroll (~$100m) and the #1 payroll (~$180m). So they may have bought their way to the playoffs, and bought their way through the World Series, but they earned their victory in the divisional and league championship series (with Manny and Pedro being the difference between the Cards’ payroll and the Sox’, which sounds about right). If you want to say that MLB’s financial structure is screwed up and inequitable and should be fixed I’ll say damn straight. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/138 "2004-10-28T08:05:51Z")
_Originally posted by spooje_ > [@](#): > > But the wonderfull thing is that not only do we not have to hear about the curse anymore, the Sox will unfurl their WS Champs banner in front of the visiting Yankees in April. That’s nice. 😛 Now let’s take up the White Sox and what has befallen them since Urban Faber beat the Giants three times, and Heinie Zimmerman chased Eddie Collins to the plate to score the winning run in the last Series game played in 1917. And then stop across town at Waveland Avenue. As for anyone who said the 2004 Series was “boring”–sour grapes! Perhaps you mean it wouldn’t have been boring had the Yankees been in it. I seem to remember a post a while back claiming that championships “belong” in New York. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/139 "2004-10-28T08:27:23Z")
You gotta admit, the Cards didn’t put up much of a fight… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748/140 "2004-10-28T12:06:58Z")
As I don’t yet see post-Series recognition of **RickJay** , who has graced these forums repeatedly with his assertions that it is _impossible_ for the Red Sox to ever win a World Series, and quite recently posted [this gem](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=279053):\* Likelihood of winning: Atlanta: 19% Anaheim: 17% New York: 17% Houston: 15% St. Louis: 14% Los Angeles: 10% Minnesota: 8% Boston: 0%\* For you, **Rick** : Phthththbbbbbpt. And may your Blue Jays some day rediscover the ability to finish above the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the standings. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-boston-wins-the-world-series/267748.md?page=8)