Baseball, Boston Style 2004

If it hadn't really happened nobody would believe the story.

When NY headlines read:

Red Sox Beat Yankees! Pigs Fly. Hell Frozen.

They didn't exaggerate.

100 years of baseball have past

and never before has anything like this ever happened

put together by a bunch of idiots no less.

America 's Team,

Riding in on Harley's unshaven and smiling

coming back in the 9 th from certain elimination in the ninth on the speed of a journeyman pinch runner (Dave Roberts) and the unlikely bat of a utility infielder (Mark Bellhorn) no breath was exhaled until the bottom of 12th when a powerhouse Caribbean transplant (David Ortiz) planted a line drive in the right field bullpen and the defenders of the Alamo were revived.

The next night for the second time in 23 hours, in the bottom of the 14th,

he did it again and a tiny ripple of hope spread.

Then with Onward Christian Soldiers ringing in his soul a veteran (Curt Schilling) showed his heart, bled and delivered from the mound and from the infield another unlikely bat came to life (Orlando Cabera, Kevin Millar and Bellhorn again)

and the Alamo remembered the Maine!

America 's Team,

Unlikely and unkempt

Acted together, pushing it to the brink

This time a raggle taggle band against the Yankees

An unschooled Kansas boy (Johnny Damon) like Lazarus stands up and delivers setting the table for another heartland lad (Derek Lowe from Michigan)

All about redemption becomes all that its about

Now there is no curse

No brutish greedy self-serving hand setting the table

This is about redemption

This drama from our grandfathers

Bob Gibson's inner child revels

as Pedro and Manny mingle their dreads

this is all about standing,

united,

blessing the sky,

blessing God

Playing ball

like idiots

doing what can't be done.

Baseball, Boston Style, 2004

Relying on everyone to get the job done

Trusting difference

placing faith in that trust

It's about cops learning to shoot at the ground

About revelers slapping high five

across racial, historically explosive divides

America 's Team 2004 weeps for the innocents

collateral damage come home from no war

(Victoria ”Tori” Snelgrove, an Emerson College student (21 yrs old) was shot in the eye and killed by a pepper pellet from “less than lethal” crowd control weapon fired by the Boston Police)

They sweep to the heartland united and stand

Champions

Undefeated

the pride of our land

A streak like this has never been seen

but it is what you get with America's Team

A collection of idiots with their hearts on their sleeves

believing their brothers have what they lack

they all take the spotlight they all stand back

America 's Team 2004

A collection of misfits

like we were before

Believing in Freedom

and a shot of Jack (Kevin Millar described a ritual shot began during the ALCS)

respecting the man

with a myth,

standing tall

his pride in his hand (Babe Ruth)

Remember the Alamo

Remember the Maine

Remember Mi Lai

Not all wars are the same!

As long as you are living and don't give up hope

You've got your chance to deliver

They'll give you the rope.

America 's Team 2004

Met with skeptics

Wouldn't believe the events from these shores

Would insist that the Yankee's champions remain

History is History

The stories the same

But the Red Sox would say

With smiles on their face

History is History

Let's all keep the pace!

That's Baseball

Boston Style

2004.