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[Sprowl]

This is no longer the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the end. This is Victory. The Boston Red Sox have won the World Series, the single greatest achievement of the game of baseball. This is what we fought for, and this is why we fought. This is our reward.

This is what lurker nation has hungered for. It's what we ate, drank, posted, sang, and partied for, too! Here’s to all the I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my miserys that got us here!

This is awesome, and it will only get better. This is a victory of, by and for the Red Sox, the city of Boston, and the far-flung Red Sox Nation. Join in the Lurker Dance Party, playoff edition, featuring patman’s Papelbanana, Dusty’s dancer, and Orlando’s cast of a thousand emoticons: Rockettes, you can’t touch this!


It wasn't easy to choose a World Series MVP. That debate will be a long and vigorous one. It will also show how much this was a team victory. Mike Lowell deserves it, but he's not the only one.



Celebrate the young and the old, rookie and veteran, future AND present.



To Jon Lester, another part of our future.



The party's been going on all year. Muzzy Fielder’s original Lurker Dance Party:



Gloria, G-L-O-R-I-A, Gloria! Makes me feel alright

Edited by Sprowl, 29 October 2007 - 10:48 PM.

[Hee-Seop's Fable]

This is no longer the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the end. This is Victory! The Boston Red Sox have won the World Series, the single greatest achievement of the game of baseball. This is what we fought for, and this is why we fought. This is our reward: Victory!

This is what lurker nation has hungered for. It's what we ate, drank, posted and partied for, too! Here’s to all the I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my miserys that got us here!

Thanks to you Sprowl, and to Andrew for leading the way with such powerful I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery throughout the playoffs gamethreads! Fantastic! Twice in one decade, and three more years left! (I'm counting '10 if 2001 wast the beginning of this century - anyone want to bet it won't happen again?)

[DustyPetra]

This is awesome, and it will only get better. This is a Victory of, by and for the Red Sox, the city of Boston, and the far-flung Red Sox Nation.

The best team in baseball, and we'll only get better. This is too good to be anything but true! I wish that a few others were still around to share in our celebration, but we

WON it for...
My grandfather
Rosie's mom
Ted Williams
and all those we miss.

They're here in spirit.

[Savin Hillbilly]

People ask if this is the same as '04, and I really like Theo's answer: it's like comparing your children. '04 was our firstborn, and nothing will ever be quite like it. But '07 is just as beautiful in its own way. Things often seem easier for second children, and '07 was no exception: less angst, more feel-good dominance. I'm OK with that. The '04 club was a team of destiny and magic; this team just rocked the house.

We are the best. We've proved it all year long, in every imaginable way, against every challenger, and now we get to bask in the achievement all winter long.

[Effa]

We're grateful for your sacrifice, Effa! Just remember, you can't post during opening day 2008 either.

But everything in between is wide open!

We'll have to negotiate about this. The World Series is over--I'm a free agent now!

Perhaps I could work on a limited pitch count.....but I gotta be in the game!

(Ass-hole A-Rod complains that I am stealing the attention away from him)

[PayrodsFirstClutchHit]

It will be nice to here "And now, your World Series Champs..." all next season.

I have been taking calls from friends in other parts of the country wishing congrats and giving me crap for being a fan of "the next Yankees".

As long as they mean the success of the Yankees of the late 90's, then I'm all for it.

[Sprowl]

We'll have to negotiate about this. The World Series is over--I'm a free agent now!

Perhaps I could work on a limited pitch count.....but I gotta be in the game!

(Ass-hole A-Rod complains that I am stealing the attention away from him)

Maybe we can work out a lurker I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery option, with your accumulated non-posting victory credits applied to an emergency must-win mid-season game of lurker nation's choice.

When you think of all the I am unoriginal and unfunny. Please put me out of my misery accumulated during this 7-game run, we've got some serious firepower in reserve. Personally, I'm a little tired of WINston Churchill for now, but I have no doubt he'll be back next summer at some moment when the Sox need him most.

A-Rod wants to be loved in the worst way, but after all those attention-grabbing bad manners, he'll be hated in every other way. Hank, Bora$ and A-Rod deserve each other, and that's worth celebrating too

[budcrew08]

We'll have to negotiate about this. The World Series is over--I'm a free agent now!

Perhaps I could work on a limited pitch count.....but I gotta be in the game!

(Ass-hole A-Rod complains that I am stealing the attention away from him)

I think Lurker Nation would do anything possible to keep you from becoming a free agent.

[asection8]

Edited by asection8, 29 October 2007 - 01:09 PM.

[ShortSox]

I'm a bit disappointed that I won't be using these:


I got over that pretty quickly.

I'm really enjoying the new era of being a Red Sox fan.....I can't make the parade but I feel all warm inside thinking (knowing?) that there are more to come in the very near future.

Thank you 2007 Red Sox.

[dkarrick00]

Did anyone catch Curt Schilling's interview from last night w/Don Orsillo? I was looking at nesn.com and watched the first few seconds of it. Nice mention of SOSH. I take it BaghdadJamie is a user here? If so, awesome mention!

[Aldogg]

You know, this feels pretty damn good. Looking back, 2004 and 2007, while different, each have their own meanings.

When we won in 2004, I thought more of the people who didn't see it. One of my grandparents was a huge Sox fan, he never got to see it. My father, who taught me to read while sitting me on his lap on a Sunday morning having me read about Barrett, Boggs, Greenwell, passed away in May of 2004. I am sure we all have people who were responsible for us being here now as Red Sox fans who never got to see us win a title. While it was awesome when Foulke

Last night, as the final out came, it was more of a celebration. This post season there was no "curses" ghosts or anything, it was just about the Sox and baseball.

[Al Zarilla]

You know, this feels pretty damn good. Looking back, 2004 and 2007, while different, each have their own meanings.

When we won in 2004, I thought more of the people who didn't see it. One of my grandparents was a huge Sox fan, he never got to see it. My father, who taught me to read while sitting me on his lap on a Sunday morning having me read about Barrett, Boggs, Greenwell, passed away in May of 2004. I am sure we all have people who were responsible for us being here now as Red Sox fans who never got to see us win a title. While it was awesome when Foulke

Last night, as the final out came, it was more of a celebration. This post season there was no "curses" ghosts or anything, it was just about the Sox and baseball.

I know what you mean about 2004. Most years when I'd talk on the phone to my father around the beginning of the season, he'd say 'do you think this will be the year the Red Sox will win the world series...' I'd say hope so and all that but they never did. In 2004, he was 93 and I was talking to him on the phone after the Sox had done it, and I said well, they finally did it! He paused and then said something like 'it looks like they're finally going win the world series'. I knew he had been failing, but that said it all. Well, baseball isn't everything, even though we sometimes act here like it is. He had a great life otherwise.

I don't know who said it first (Werner?), but the line 'this one is for us' sums it up for me too.

[January]

2004...not a fluke.

Really, this cleans the last vestiges of the curse. Given the improbably comeback against the Indians, followed by the sweep, I think this does really get rid of vestiges of, well, the past. New Millenium, new team. It's all good. It will be fun to see what happens. I feel a bunch of other stuff, but it's been said.

[Barbara]

2004 was the rain at the end of a long drought. 2007 is just the beginning of a beautiful friendship with a lot of fun and talented ball players.

Now we know what the Royal Rooters felt like at the turn of the 'other' century when Boston won and won and won.

It's been a great season and sharing it with my fellow SoSH lurkers has made it even more special. We are a little cohort of this huge family called Red Sox Nation. We are going to have a wonderful time over the off season - Oh Where Oh Where will ARod end up? Will we resign Lowell? Watching everyone flee the once Evil Empire like rats on a sinking ship.

Thanks Sprowl for your leadership here in Lurker Land. For doing the Off Season Sermons.

To Boston!!

[DustyPetra]

2004 was the rain at the end of a long drought. 2007 is just the beginning of a beautiful friendship with a lot of fun and talented ball players.

Now we know what the Royal Rooters felt like at the turn of the 'other' century when Boston won and won and won.

To a beautiful friendship!

Celebrate the young and the old, rookie and veteran, future AND present.

Will we ever feel as entitled as the Royal Rooters?



Or do we already? I don't know whether to ask forgiveness, or just settle back and gloat

[Barbara]

To a beautiful friendship!

Will we ever feel as entitled as the Royal Rooters?

Or do we already? I don't know whether to ask forgiveness, or just settle back and gloat

Great pics Dusty.

Gloat? Nah. Just enjoy. And especially enjoy with this crew we have.

And the only (well one) thing that worries me - the MFY cannot go into free fall. We worried about what would life be like if we would win 'a' WS. This year we did not jump off the Tobin Bridge when our lead started to evaporate. But what would life be like with the Sox on top and the Yankees in the cellar. No drama with the series? That might be tough.

Edit: typo

Edited by Barbara, 01 November 2007 - 07:52 PM.

[DJ Werd]

I've missed you guys