Redsoxchickie: Just This Side of Stalking

[Posted on behalf of RSC, who is having connectivity issues]

I’ve had a 20 minute nap so I’m almost coherent again! Now if I could just see straight….

You knew when Kenny Lofton didn’t score from third that we were going to win. It was like a bad Nam flashback to Johnny Pesky in the 1946 World Series. All I could think was “Dude, you SO just screwed yourselves”.

How did the score get to 11-2? I must have blacked out from hyperventilating after Pedroia hit the home run to make 5-2. Between the home run and seeing Papi in goggles in the dugout is just a haze of shallow breathing and cold sweats.

I could have gone to the game…but I didn’t. Here’s why:
- I chose to make my mortgage payment this month.
- If they were going to break my heart I wanted to sob and wretch in the privacy of my own home
- If they won I wanted to see every second of Papelbon’s Lord of the Dance routine in High Definition
- Let’s face it, the likelihood of us winning with me actually in the stadium was next to nothing and I would never hear the end of it if they lost.

The whole series I kept thinking how much we miss Millar in the ‘backs against the wall, comeback from a 3-1 series deficit’ situation, even just to have him do the lineup that FOX keeps making the players read before every game. Ask and apparently I shall receive!!!! Millar not only threw out the first pitch but put his signature stamp on the lineup by declaring Lowell had the biggest eyebrows in baseball….you can’t put a price on moments like that :D

Downside of going to the World Series? Another week of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver rambling on incoherently. Let’s hope this time they can keep the hyperboles and the references to inconsequential facts to a minimum. Did you know Beckett pitched in all 7 games in the 2003 World Series with the Florida Marlins? Pretty soon he will have invented the modern day baseball.

The Red Sox can basically go back to the dawn of time to get people to throw out their first pitch because they’ve been around for over a century. They can honor people from significant points in the franchise history in any given decade. Now what are the Rockies going to do? “Hey, let’s have the guy who pitched in the 1st game in Coors stadium from way back in 1992 come and throw the ball out!” They’ve only been around for 15 years! I heard a Denver broadcaster this morning talking about how “starved” the city is for a championship. Wait 86 years then talk to me about how emaciated the city is for a trophy!

You have to like our chances against a team who wears purple.

I’m changing my “No Whammies!!!” chant to “No Gagnes!” I swear if I see him in a game closer than 12 runs I WILL break my TV.

We will hear “Rocky Mountain High” at least 536 times this week….I am fully ready to stab my own eardrum.

Sleep Deprivation, untold amounts of stress and aggravation, ulcer flare-ups…its World Series time baby! BRING. IT. ON.