Oh. My. God.

[khaosworks]

I might lose my voice tomorrow, my throat is so sore. I was crying and screaming so hard I missed most of the immediate post-game reaction from the team. Now the MLB.com store isn't acceping my checkout request for the cap and the T-shirt, and I expect that it's because ALL OF US ARE TRYING TO BUY THEM AS WELL.

I'm glad I managed to see this. I want to scream and run through the streets of Athens, GA, but it's all quiet outside and I'd probably get arrested. So I'll just scream inside my room with you guys.

So many things about this season... the 101st anniversary of the Series... the win over the Yankees from 3 games down... the highest scoring opening game in history... the night of the lunar eclipse... Eighty-sixing the curse...

If you wrote this as a movie, it would be too corny and nobody would believe it.

And as adamselzer put it, somewhere in Boston, a piano floats to the surface of the water.

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

No offense, but as someone who's lived all 29 of his years, pretty much, as a native-born Bostonian, someone who was ELEVEN in '86...

This is pretty sweet. :) But we welcome all those who were, AND I SAY "WERE!!!!!," victims of the curse by choice. :)

re: '86

[etherial.livejournal.com]

I had an '86 pennant hanging over my bed until it literally dissolved into a wad of fluff. Of course, I didn't realize at the time what had happened that series.

Re: '86

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I was 11 in '86. My whole family, 40 of us, at least, huddled around the little TV back then. And Game 6. No one came back for Game 7. We knew we'd lose it.

I can't fathom this. It's too much.

Re: '86

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

Lessee... '86... I was going through boston the night they lost... Was on a trip to the Nazarene College there... I'll never forget our driver exceeding the speedlimit on the interstate to beat the traffic... now... if you're all done screaming, may I PLEASE go back to sleep? lol

[mrlogic.livejournal.com]

I don't get the piano reference...??

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Babe Ruth owned a cottage by Willis Pond in Boston, and just before he was traded to the Yankees in 1919, he dumped his piano into the pond. Retrieving the piano was one of the things people used to say had to be done to reverse the curse.

"Used to say". Ah, how sweet that phrase is.