I got my new broom out for the bottom of the 9th. What a beautiful way to have that “curse” lifted – with eight straight victories and a full lunar eclipse! This game I will remember always.
Just got off the phone with a friend who lives in Boston (OK, technically Brookline). She is sure no work will be done tomorrow and Friday is the big victory parade, so no work then either!
I’m sitting about five miles from Yankee Stadium but I am so happy for Red Sox Nation right now! I lived in Boston half my life and heard all the stories, how generations lived and died in this drought, and we’ve seen it lifted tonight!
May it be just the first victory this week for Massachusetts! 
My dad turned 81 today.
He’s an Orioles fan.
Let me be the first St. Louis fan to contratulate Boston on their long-awaited World Series victory. The Sox played a better series than the Cards, and deserved their win. Congratulations and a happy year with your championship.
I wonder what an entire city losing bladder control with joy smells like. 
I also wonder if this sweep is as emotionally satisfying as a seven-game series would have been. Imagine the suspense of the long-suffering Red Sox Nation chewing their fingertips over a 3-3 tie, and imagine how much bigger the explosion of triumph would have been. This way, it’s sort of like getting to have sex with a supermodel and climaxing on the fourth thrust.
But hey, you had sex with a supermodel.
Congrats, Boston! Well-deserved.
How did these Cards manage to win 105 games in the regular season?
Coming on the fourth thrust leaves more time for another go;)
You know how sometimes people leave little U.S. flags at grave sites for veterans or POWs and such? I think someone could make a million bucks by making a bunch of little Red Sox flags along the same line that say “Grandpa, we did it!” and “Dad, we did it!” and so on.
I’m incredibly happy for the city of Boston, but I can’t help but be depressed (a little) for all the people who lived and died without seeing what’s happening now. Of course, a lot of people have lived and died without seeing the Straight Dope, too, and the final episode of Friends, and the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, but the victory of the Red Sox was something that so many people felt they needed, and which so many missed out on.
Didn’t mean to be depressing. Carry on with the hooting and hollering. Go Sox! Oh, and you can have my support until spring training rolls around, and then it’s back to root, root, rooting for the home team.
My co-worker and I (both Bostonians far from home) spent the morning watching the game in the office meeting room. A sweet, sweet, moment indeed.
The only downer of it was when the network showed a clip of the Buckner error in the eighth inning. It didn’t bother me, but I just felt sorry for old Bill. The guy was probably watching the game at home, happy that his old team was finally going to do it, and they have to show that. Leave they poor guy in peace, would ya?
Oh, and to all the Cards fans, good game. Unlike in the Yankees series, I never wished ill on your team.
I tell you what, it sucks you in… I’ve only lived in Boston for 4 years, I’m not even an American, I still have to ask stupid questions about some of the rules (infield fly… buh?) but WOOOO, we were out on our porch last night listening to the fireworks and car horns and yelling and damn it felt good! Especially after last year. Heck, even beating the Yankees felt good, but this is the icing on the cake. The curse is lifted, and the Sox fans get another item -the lunar eclipse - to add to the superstition/mythology!
The big joke in NYC yesterday was “Can you win the first three games of a seven game series and still lose the series?” I can only say
/Nelson Muntz/: HA! HA!
The first major league ball game I ever watched was at a party thrown by some friends of my then-new wife, a life-long Red Sox fanatic. That evening, I watched the ball roll through Bill Buckner’s legs.
My wife got me enought into baseball for the Red Sox to break my heart every year. Now, eighteen years later… GO SOX!!!
As a Cubs fan, I am in the enviable position of both being happy for the Red Sox (as the other lovable losers) winning and schadenfreude for the Cards for losing like the goddamn losers they are.*
I had hoped that the Series would play out like this although I hadn’t suspected that it would be a sweep.
As for the rioting: that’s not cool.
- OK, so they won the NL, but so what?
That was so sweet. My dad is 65 and he’s been such a die-hard fan for so long.
As a transplanted Mainer, I know so many people that are so happy right now the sox won.
Did anyone else see Jimmy Fallon doing a big hollywood kiss on the field during the celebration.
I can only guess it was because of this.
I thought that was him, but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why he’d have been on the field kissing some woman.
As a die-hard, lifelong Yankee fan, I have to say…
Congratulations, Boston.
Seriously. No snide comments, no cracks about the eclipse.
Just true and genuine congratulations. I can’t even begin to imagine what this must feel like for your guys. Honestly–and I will probably be thrown out of the Yankee Union and have my card revoked for this–I have to admit…being a fan of the favorites DOES get a little monotonous. I actually rooted for your guys last night, and teared up when they won.
Good job, Sox! And congratulations again.
A now banned member of the Yankee nation,
Yakkette
Um, no not really. The Cards were pathetic - they did not look like the NL Champs, they looked like a JV team. They batted .160 and had an team ERA over 6. Just mind numbingly bad. The Astros would have given the Sox a series. Hell even my Braves would likely have won at least one game. I hope the Cards feel like gigantic LOSERS. I hope they spend all off season being ashamed or their performance. They had the best record in baseball this year. . . and then basically didn’t even get off the bus mentally in the WS. I was happy to hear the fans in St. Louis booing them.
Still, congrats to the Red Sox - the mentality of losing and the idea of a curse was a much tougher opponent than the other team.
By the way anyone else think about the fact that the Celtics won their first NBA title against St. Louis in 1957, the Patriots won their first Superbowl against the Rams and now you have the Red Sox beating the Cardinals. Spoooooooky.
Well, ok, they didn’t play well at all, that’s for sure. I was just trying to be a good sport about it.
bouv, my grandfather lives in Brasher Falls (about 10 miles from Massena) and he is a proud Sox fan. He’s got a bumper sticker, license plate frame and a flag on his car. I regularly drive through Saranac Lake to visit my family in Brasher. It’s such a lovely town. Weren’t you in Vermont before or am I thinking of another poster?
Anyway, I’m so happy they won! My grandfather was born in 1919, so they’ve never one in his lifetime and he’s been a fan all of his life. When they won the pennant, people were calling to congratulate him the next day.
I almost called him last night after they won, but I figured he would want to watch the post-game festivities. It’s too bad that his hero, Ted Williams, passed away a few years ago.
Wooooooooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooooo!
That is all.