There's Always Last Year Vol. II

We're allowed to celebrate the one year anniversary of the greatest comeback in sports history, right? It deserves at least a champagne toast, doesn't it?

Okay, it's pathetic, I know. It's not our year anymore, it's somebody else's year.

I hope that I'm not dancing a jig in a nursing home in Revere in the year 2084 in honor of "the 80th anniversary of the Red Sox Great Comeback". It's okay to celebrate this one time though, right?

Here is an excerpt from Bob Hohler's article "Miracle Workers" in the October 21, 2004 Boston Globe:

Just as they pictured it, they changed the course of baseball history. And just like a dream, they dashed generations of heartache for New Englanders who longed to witness the one glorious triumph they staged last night in the October chill by the Harlem River.

In the greatest postseason comeback since the birth of the national pastime, the Red Sox completed a magical surge from a 3-0 deficit in the best-of-seven American League Championship Series by stomping the Yankees, 10-3, in a do-or-die seventh game to capture their first pennant since 1986.

"How many times can you honestly say you have a chance to shock the world?" Kevin Millar said in the frothy celebration after the sensational finish. "It might happen once in your life or it may never happen. But we had that chance, and we did it. It's an amazing storybook."

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Back in the present day, apparently the Dale Sveum era is over in Boston. As reported by the Boston Globe's Chris Snow, Sveum Waves Goodbye:

Never again will Dale Sveum stand in the Red Sox clubhouse after a game, a beer in hand, waiting patiently for every reporter in sight to gather around him before calmly explaining why he sent another runner to a fateful end.

For the record, I wouldn't want the Red Sox third base coaching job.

For the record again, there is still a World Series and I'm picking the Astros in 7.