World Series thread

[CL82]

I have been a Red Sox fan sine the 70's. After seeing all the disappointment of coming up short and horrible luck in Bucky Dent's Home Run, Billy Buckner and 2003 who would have thunk we would win 4 in 15 years. I'm so glad to be a Red Sox fan and World Series Champion once again! Love my Red Sox and hopefully my UCONN Huskies can follow suit and win another NCAA Tourney!

I tell my kids that they have no idea what normal fandom is like. Between the UConn MBB and WBB, the Sox, and the Pats (and the Celts though we aren't big NBA fans), life has been coming up roses for them. Add to that that my son's sports team won or were in the hunt pretty much every year growing up and that is just their worldview.

 

[Mr. French]

Any interest in maybe next year taking a little tour with me and pops?

 

[intlzncster]

I tell my kids that they have no idea what normal fandom is like. Between the UConn MBB and WBB, the Sox, and the Pats (and the Celts though we aren't big NBA fans), life has been coming up roses for them. Add to that that my son's sports team won or were in the hunt pretty much every year growing up and that is just their worldview.

Boston has truly been absurd (esp if you're a UCONN fan) the past 2 decades.

Once we turn the corner and start losing (not UCONN) it's gonna be painful. This might sound a bit fair-weather, but my professional sports fandom will probably wain. A lot of that is a function of lack of time, but pro sports has been turned into 'if they don't win a championship, it's a busted season' for me. Totally unrealistic, but it is what it is.

Ultimate first-world-problem here.

 

[intlzncster]

Any interest in maybe next year taking a little tour with me and pops?

If you're buyin', @DaveHuskiesFan is goin'.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Boston has truly been absurd (esp if you're a UCONN fan) the past 2 decades.

Once we turn the corner and start losing (not UCONN) it's gonna be painful. This might sound a bit fair-weather, but my professional sports fandom will probably wain. A lot of that is a function of lack of time, but pro sports has been turned into 'if they don't win a championship, it's a busted season' for me. Totally unrealistic, but it is what it is.

Ultimate first-world-problem here.

When is that happening exactly? Red Sox, best team in baseball and young. Celtics, best team in the east and young. Bruins, one of the best teams in the NHL and young. Patriots are the Patriots.

Since the start of the 20th century, the 1990's were the only decade without a title by a Boston team in any of the four major sports.

 

[Husky25]

John Henry hated Grady Little.

As for Little, well, he did get the Sox to the postseason in 2003. But then came Game 7 of the ALCS in Yankee Stadium, when he sent Pedro Martinez out to pitch one more inning, the eighth, with the Red Sox up 5-2. As calm and peaceful as Henry is, he can get angry. "Can we fire him right now?" he asked Lucchino. The rest, including Little, was history.

Henry, who felt ``pure rage" toward manager Grady Little when he left in Martínez to pitch the eighth inning of Game 7 of the 2003 American League Championship Series against the Yankees, was unhappy with the manager all season. ``Henry had taken to joking that if the Red Sox did not win the World Series and he was tapped to star in one of the iconic `I'm going to Disney World,' commercials, he would instead announce to the world, `I'm going to fire Grady Little.'

 

[HooperScooper]

Once we turn the corner and start losing (not UCONN) it's gonna be painful.

I don't expect that to happen anytime soon because I think a large part of being a consistent winner is having ownership that makes good decisions and want to win. I think the Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics all have this. Bruins, not as much but not terrible.

For example, at some point Brady and Belichick will be gone and there will be an adjustment period but they will get back to being very good again because I think the Krafts are good owners.

 

[Waquoit]

For example, at some point Brady and Belichick will be gone and there will be an adjustment period but they will get back to being very good again because I think the Krafts are good owners.

We'll see. They made one good hire. It's not the Patriot Way, it's the Belichick Way. And it doesn't seem to transfer.

 

[intlzncster]

When is that happening exactly? Red Sox, best team in baseball and young. Celtics, best team in the east and young. Bruins, one of the best teams in the NHL and young. Patriots are the Patriots.

Since the start of the 20th century, the 1990's were the only decade without a title by a Boston team in any of the four major sports.

When Brady/Belichick retire, that'll be a significant change. Celts and Sox are set up very well. I'm not as into the Bruins (will watch the playoffs), as I'm a former Whalers fan.

 

[intlzncster]

For example, at some point Brady and Belichick will be gone and there will be an adjustment period but they will get back to being very good again because I think the Krafts are good owners.

The Pats are likely first on tap to fall back. And while they'll still end up being good, it's not going to be remotely the same. There are other good well run organizations out there, and they can't come close to replicating the Pats results. It is both unique and special and very, very rare.

 

[RedsoxCowboys]

Alex Cora deserves so much credit for the Redsox success. I mean the players absolutely love him, and they performed, and it was full team effort to win it all. I'm hoping the UConn players will feel the same about Hurley. I have a feeling they will.

 

[intlzncster]

Alex Cora deserves so much credit for the Redsox success. I mean the players absolutely love him, and they performed, and it was full team effort to win it all. I'm hoping the UConn players will feel the same about Hurley. I have a feeling they will.

You're not kidding.

Even players' parents have been thanking him for the relationship he's developed with their sons. Pretty cool. Not all that normal either.

Sunday breakfast on the best day of Alex Cora's professional life was about what you'd expect: swanky Los Angeles hotel ballroom, eager servants, exotic proteins. The room was filled with Cora's ballplayers and their families: children, wives, parents, the random cousin, a favored niece or nephew. There was anticipation in the room as well, this being the morning of the day they all expected to end with a win over the Dodgers in Game 5 and a World Series championship for the Red Sox. And one by one, perhaps sensing it was their last chance, the parents approached Cora, the fathers' hands extended, the mothers angling in for a hug. They came bearing some version of the same message: "Thank you for the way you've treated our son."

'He has a way of making you believe': How Alex Cora built a championship culture

 

[SixRings]

The Pats are likely first on tap to fall back. And while they'll still end up being good, it's not going to be remotely the same. There are other good well run organizations out there, and they can't come close to replicating the Pats results. It is both unique and special and very, very rare.

I’d like to hear what @TitleTown has to say first. His predictions are stellar.

 

[intlzncster]

I’d like to hear what @TitleTown has to say first. His predictions are stellar.

Hopefully he says they'll be dogshite, so I can bet the farm on the Pats every year, enjoy the wins, and make a truckload of loot on top of that.

 

[uconnfan68]

Roberts wins another World Series for the Sox!

Cold. Sox were just much better.

 

[Guapo]

Cold. Sox were just much better.

Lol this was a troll directed at Yankee fans

 

[JB75]

And Machado falls to his knees looking silly on a strikeout to end it. Fitting ending to an amazing year.

 

[JB75]

Great video on plane. Brock holt deff had a few. Love this team

 

[ctchamps]

I have been a Red Sox fan sine the 70's. After seeing all the disappointment of coming up short and horrible luck in Bucky Dent's Home Run, Billy Buckner and 2003 who would have thunk we would win 4 in 15 years. I'm so glad to be a Red Sox fan and World Series Champion once again! Love my Red Sox and hopefully my UCONN Huskies can follow suit and win another NCAA Tourney!

Go back well before this. Yaz, Tony C., Rico, Lonborg, Stange, and company is one of my favorite Red Sox teams.

I followed the Pats for a long time and never thought they’d win a Super Bowl after getting crushed by the Bears.

I followed UConn men’s bb since the 60’s but made a determination to watch or listen to every game at the beginning of the1989 season. Perfect timing. Started following the women’s team 1991.

My son became a Philadelphia fan (Phillies and Eagles) around 2002 and wife and I began to root for them as well. 2017 I’m rooting like crazy for the Pats against the Falcons. 2018 I couldn’t lose and yet after so many years of Pats following and rooting I wanted the Eagles to win it all. It was a crazy feeling.

Never thought I would experience any championships. I feel really sports blessed.