I nurse a healthy hatred toward the Yankees (as do many) because of their 4-0 routing of the Padres in the 1998 World Series. And while I can’t even come close to saying I can empathise with 84 years of painful twists of fate, the irony of Tony Gwynn’s legendary career ending against a backdrop of losses was heartbreaking to say the least.

Watching Boston win this unprecedented series has rejuvenated my love for The Game and satisfied a long-standing desire for the Yankees to finally get a hearty taste of the bitter end.

You know, I feel for players and fans when their teams lose. I know what it’s like as I’ve never once had a team of mine win anything of major consequence. The closest I’ve ever come is with The Huskies in 91 and people still go around saying they should split the prize with Miami. What a load…

Anyway, when I saw the upset Yankee fan’s I wanted to laugh in their faces, taunt the hell out of them and generally rejoice in their suffereing. What do they know about losing? How dare they be upset? Try living in Seattle where we can’t keep players to save out lives, especially in the unfair playing field that is baseball.

Oh and don’t get me started on A-Rod. I love seeing that jackass lose. If he never gets farther than that I’ll be a happy baseball fan even if my M’s stay in the toilet.

Screw the Yankees.

On a positive note, I’m pulling for the Cards in the NL. For some reason I just like that team. Cards/Sox would be a great series and you know I’m hoping the curse will be lifted. Go Sox.

This was an amazing series. Since I am a Mariners fan from birth (They were formed in ’77 and I was born in ’78), I have to add that this was the best Yankee loss since the M’s beat them in the playoffs in ’95. Oh those were the days.

Anyways, Go Sox.

As for the significance of the series, very well said Mike. Boston did deserve for this to be called the best postseason series ever, even if Minnesota/Atlanta (baseball) and a few others (NY fans?) might argue. And for you to recognize Varitek is a very cool thing, but besides being from Seattle’s system, his 10-pitch at-bat two nights ago that resulted in a single vs. Lieber was a thing of beauty and set up their 4-run inning. And that’s the best part of this Boston team — Ortiz may have been the MVP, but each player seemingly made a difference in this series.

I can’t close this w/o also repeating your commentator notes. As a former director/producer, I too was blown away by the apathetic attitude of the Buck/McCarver combo. Leiter was at least enthusiastic, if not very well spoken.

Buck is better than that.

Now, however, my evil side is making an appearance as I have a twisted desire to see the curse live on at the hands of the Cardinals (preferred) or Astros (though Clemens helping to beat the Sox again would be hilarious). Beating the Yankees WAS the Sox’s World Series. From The Bambino to Bucky “Bleepin'” Dent to Aaron “Bleepin'” Boone to “Who’s your daddy!?”, the Sox have been eternally tortured by the Yankees. Sox fans everywhere are breathing the sighs of relief associated with a lifted curse. Hehe, it isn’t over yet…

Finally, just a quick point of interest: The Yankees play “New York, New York” after every game. If they lose, it is the Sinatra version. If they win, it is Minnelli’s. For those of us who are Yankee-haters, the sweet sound of Sinatra is even sweeter after a game.

Right, 1918 was the last championship, but Ruth got traded in 1920, which is 84 years ago.

And as for A-Rod, oh yes, that’s another story altogether. Did anyone see the anger and disappointment on his face in the dugout as the Red Sox celebrated? A thing of beauty.

Especially given their opponent, A-Rod and the New York Yankees… archrivals of ours in Seattle.

I think you could say that about most every other team in Major League Baseball. I know I was rooting against the Yankees vehemently (as has been a postseason tradition of mine lately) since they always seem to have had the upper hand against the Royals, my favorite team. (They even had the Yankees beat them on a walk-off homer by Chris Chambliss in ’76, but that’s another story.)

Long story short, the Yankees are just one of those teams that you always want to beat more than anyone else…and Boston just did so in the most inconceivable manner possible. I know the World Series can’t possibly match this series in excitement — can’t it? — but I will be watching each game to see if Boston can finally win a championship with its beloved Sox.

I no longer think that he is worth anywhere close to what he is getting paid. Superstars dont need to cheat to win.

And what the hell is up with those purple lips of his? Can anyone help me out with this.

Being curious about the word ‘sox’ vs. ‘socks’, I decided to open up my trusty rusty Wikipedia and do a little research. Turns out, the initial team names used the word ‘stockings’, later shortened to ‘socks’.

Webster et al pushed toward spelling reform around the turn of the century, leading to numerous accepted and rejected English modifications, including:

• hockey became hocky
• thumb became thum
• colour became color and…
• socks became sox (remembered in the names of the Red Sox and White Sox Major League Baseball clubs)

So apparently ‘sox’ is just a language relic that’s stuck around. Figured perhaps someone might find that interesting. Cheers!

By the way, the only thing missing from last night was Pedro busting a moonwalk across the NY logo behind home plate and then dropping right into a backspin – besides that it was perfect.

By the way, Millar’s “we shocked the world tonight, we shocked the United States”??? Uhhh, I’m gonna go with the latter…..lol

peace