Top Five Things to be Thankful For*
November 19, 2007 by Jodie Lynn Boduch
Filed under Baseball, Basketball, Football, Sports Rumors
* If you’re a New England sports fan or have the patience to tolerate one, through good times and bad.
1. Please. This item has the surprise element of Plan 9 From Outer Space, but we have to state the obvious: The Red Sox winning the World Series.
2. The Patriots making it 10-0. Pretty soon “Spygate,” if it hasn’t already done so, will become a synonym for ”pathetic attempt to debase those of well-deserved elite stature.” Sorry—and we hope faithful reader Les, a known Bills fan from Grand Island, will forgive us for this one—but a quick, informal poll indicates that we aren’t feeling guilty about “running up the score,” either. In fact, we like it. A lot.
3. The Celtics going 8-1. We aren’t even pouting about that two-point loss to the Magic last night. Why? Because it’s fun to see headlines with the word “finally” in it, as in “Celts Finally Lose.” Ha! Do we know how to make lemonade out of lemons or what? We find reasons to be cocky even when our teams lose!
4. The Red Sox signed Curt Schilling. The bloody sock, the candor with the press, the game face, the 38 Pitches blog with page views so astronomical yours truly would consider getting a dog just to do the drooling over it. (Hey, you don’t think we would actually do the drooling ourselves, do you? It would completely mess up the red lipstick. Not cool). Schilling is part of Red Sox lore, plain and simple.
5. This one is hot off the press courtesy of Bacchus: The Sox signed Mike Lowell! You hear that, that collective “ouch”? That’s the sound of thousands of Sox fans doing roundoff backhandsprings of joy, only to realize they didn’t warm up and pulled a hamstring. It’s worth it, though, because Lowell rocks.
That reminds us, didn’t Fox Sports keeping playing “Cleveland Rocks” during the ALDS?
Looks like NEW ENGLAND is the place to be instead! We’re so happy about Lowell that it didn’t even ruin our day when we learned A-Rod got the AL MVP.
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