It's still not real.
I don't even know what I want to say, I just know that I have to say something about the most amazing postseason run ever.
First home team to win the World Series at Fenway in 95 years. Second team ever to win the World Series after finishing in last place the year before. Your World Series MVP? A guy who, in Game Five, went 3-for-4 and raised his World Series batting average by SIX points. Your Game Six winning pitcher? A guy who was hated in this city for three years, earning his ultimate redemption with a tip of the cap. The man who threw the final pitch? A 38-year-old who wasn't even the second guy you could see closing for this team. This all goes without mentioning Jon Lester's two near-identical performances of mastery, Shane Victorino's coming-out party in Game Six after sitting twice in St. Louis, Stephen Drew finally getting a hit (and then another), Mike Napoli showing us why he was signed, Jonny Gomes showing us why he was signed, EVERYONE on this team showing us why they were on the 2013 Boston Red Sox. And now, and forever more, there will be three more words added to that tagline - the 2013 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox. Read that one more time. WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
It doesn't feel like nine days since I predicted the exact outcome of this World Series. This World Series felt like one giant, long movie, where we went to bed and woke up thinking about the Red Sox, about the next game. It still doesn't seem real that it's over. I'm half expecting the Red Sox to find some other team to go play, but it's over. It was August 1st that I decided this team was winning the World Series. I didn't say that verbatim, but I said that "there [was] something about this Red Sox team..." This was the night that the Red Sox overcame a five-run deficit in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Mariners. This was one of those games that defines seasons for teams, and there was no better example of the resiliency of this ball club than that game.
But this World Series was about the fact that no one could stop the Boston Red Sox. A 12-8, come-from-behind victory on September 6 against the Yankees was an example of that. Jon Lester beating Max Scherzer the day before a 20-run onslaught was an example of that. No matter what any team threw at the Red Sox, they were not going to be stopped.
Neither will me blogging about this. Anyone who has seen my Twitter, Facebook, or blog lately has noticed that it's been all Red Sox. There's a reason for that. This has been one of the most magical postseason runs for any team, and for the Red Sox to win the World Series at Fenway, after everything that this city has gone through this year, there's absolutely no better way to do it than that.
Cue the duckboats.
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