Wednesday, October 20, 2004

 

Miracle Comeback

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox, your 2004 American League champions.

Never before had a major league baseball team lost the first three games of a seven-game playoff series, and then win the next four. In over a century and twenty-something tries, no one has come back from death's door like that. In fact, no one had even won three in a row after going down 0-3.

Even better, in the Game 4 the Red Sox were three outs away from defeat. They were about as far away from winning this pennant as you could possibly be, and they came back and won it! If you were to make a movie of this series, no one would ever have believed it. Ever.

That it happened against the Yankees, in Yankee Stadium, a year after the Yankees snatched a pennant away from the Sox, makes it even more amazing.

I don't think I will see something quite like this ever again in my lifetime. This is why baseball is the greatest game ever devised by the mind of man.

It is NEVER too late.

Jefferson 9:32 PM

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