Watched the World Series DVD on Christmas night.
Some memories that came back, making themselves clear in the light of day: the whole sad incident with Mariano Rivera’s relatives, and his 2 saves in the face of that. How close Game 1 ended up, despite Schilling being shelled. Tony Clark’s miraculous ground-rule double. So many times they stared elimination in the face and laughed. And one thing stood out - how seriously happy Pedro was at the end of the ALCS and at the end of the World Series. In retrospect, a sepia-tinged last Sox hurrah.
It will be sweet when the Sox win again, but this was something magical. How would you script it? The arch-rival Yankees. Plunging into the depths of despair. Then the fightback. Then, seemingly invincible, the relentless force rolling over the best team in the National League, a team that had previously been the conquerors. The stuff of legends.
No matter the ups and downs of the offseason, no one can take 2004 away from us Sox fans.
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