"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone."
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti'The Green Fields of the Mind' Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1977
and so ends another season for the boston red sox.... this year, defeated in game 7 of the american league championship series by a younger, healthier and superior tampa bay rays team. the rays pitched better, fielded better, ran the bases better and hit better than the red sox and so i harbor no bitterness, no vitriol, no contempt for this year's red sox team and wish the rays (and haverhill's own carlos pena) well in their efforts to win the franchise's first world's championship.
game 5 of this year's ALCS will always be remembered for the red sox dramatic comeback. after appearing all but dead in games 2, 3 and 4 the sox defended their 2007 championship with vigor extendeding the summer if only for a few more nights...
now that the 'season' has ended, theo and the baseball ops group have a lot of work ahead... varitek's free-agency, lowell's ability to come back from surgery, papi's wrist, what to do with julio lugo, buchholz's ability to contribute at the major league level - all these questions will need to be answered this winter
I wrote last year on the night of the red sox second world championship in four seasons about my arrival to sports fan normalcy. After a 162 game regular season that started in japan back in march and a trip to the alcs that ended tonight, i am content to say 'normalcy' will allow me to survive the coming winter without suffering through any of the anger and hurt of seasons past...
*well, normalcy and knowing the defending world champion boston celtics start the defense of the team's 17th title in less than 6 weeks.
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