World Series is over

Mitica100 · Oct 28, 2007

For you baseball fans, season's over!

Rockies played well but not well enough to take a single game away from the Red Sox. They seemed rusty, especially the hitting.

GoM · Oct 29, 2007

Yeah, having ~ a week off will do that.

Cue the horde of w-t-f-m-l-b e-mails to SI, ESPN, etc?

Oldfireguy · Oct 29, 2007

What's that I hear.....SWEEP!

hawkeye · Oct 29, 2007

Rusty or not, they didn't stand a chance against Boston's devastating lineup. Not to mention Beckett, Papelbon, Dice-K, Schilling and crew.

RKW3 · Oct 29, 2007

Another boring world series..

wolfepakt · Oct 29, 2007

Depressing, just depressing.

Unimaxium · Oct 31, 2007

Good game. Good going for the Sox. ;-)

Corry · Oct 31, 2007

Sky, what was it like in Boston? I'd been hoping you'd get online so I could ask you about it. Did you go to that parade I heard about?

Unimaxium · Oct 31, 2007

I unfortunately didn't have a chance to go to any of the festivities, but I heard there was a plenty of celebrating. You could certainly hear the cheering coming from all directions during the hour after we won. Though I doubt it was anything like after the Sox won back in 2004, which came after their infamous 84-year losing streak. I know the police were certainly well prepared for rioting this time; while walking to a friend's dorm before game 4, I came across a group of about 50-70 police officers gathering around and getting briefed or whatnot in preparation for a win that night. And that was just in one random spot on the edge of campus. There also would have probably been more rioting if the Sox had won at Fenway park instead of in Denver, but we would have had to lose two games for the series to end in Boston (like that was gonna happen

). Nonetheless, on the walk back to my dorm after the game there were at least five or six helicopters flying around in the sky that I could spot.
So it doesn't sound like there was anything insane that happened this time around (at least not that I heard about), but all of Boston was really quite happy ;-)

GoM · Oct 31, 2007

Man I wish Toronto had the sports luck of New England atm

Corry · Oct 31, 2007

Unimaxium said:
I unfortunately didn't have a chance to go to any of the festivities, but I heard there was a plenty of celebrating. You could certainly hear the cheering coming from all directions during the hour after we won. Though I doubt it was anything like after the Sox won back in 2004, which came after their infamous 84-year losing streak. I know the police were certainly well prepared for rioting this time; while walking to a friend's dorm before game 4, I came across a group of about 50-70 police officers gathering around and getting briefed or whatnot in preparation for a win that night. And that was just in one random spot on the edge of campus. There also would have probably been more rioting if the Sox had won at Fenway park instead of in Denver, but we would have had to lose two games for the series to end in Boston (like that was gonna happen ). Nonetheless, on the walk back to my dorm after the game there were at least five or six helicopters flying around in the sky that I could spot.
So it doesn't sound like there was anything insane that happened this time around (at least not that I heard about), but all of Boston was really quite happy ;-)

That sounds awesome, Sky! Too bad you didn't get to go to any of the festivities!

Now....if only my CUBBIES would win a series!

GoM · Oct 31, 2007

World Series '08, Cubbies-Jays

that'd be the day

azruial · Nov 1, 2007

"Some rowdy fans overturned cars on Boylston Street and set a motorcycle on fire on upper Newbury Street. Police said 16 cars were vandalized on Newbury, most with broken windows and mirrors." http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14444577/detail.html?eref=time_us

I'm just glad I don't have a car in the city!