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2 years ago today was the beginning of the greatest comeback in baseball history. I'm sure we all have our memories of, as I like to call it, "The Miracle Mile". I got the name of it from the song "You Get What You Give"-New Radicals in the lyric that goes 4am we ran a miracle mile/We're flat broke but hey we do it in style and I just remember being up at 4am just blown away at what had transpired from when that clock struck midnight and Millar stepped up to teh plate until shortly after 11pm when David Ortiz became more than a man....it was truly something.
Denis Leary said that anybody who said that they believed all along are full of shit and lying through their teeth. I must object to that, for my own self-promotional ways. I believed. I don't know why I believed. I think mostly though, I just wasn't ready to have the season end. Though, I had this feeling all throughout the season that there was somethign about this team. Even when tehy were down and out. I got signs left and right during the season. I'm sure you all saw signs as well, there was surely something in the air. But honestly, this may sound completely preposterous and perhaps it is, but back in May of that season, I had an epiphany. I was driving around and I don't remember exactly when it was in the year, it was definitely before the Phillies series, but that's as much as I know. I was parked in Cumby's just about to head in to grab a soda. I lingered around in the car for a few moments and I was changing it to another station, but my finger slipped and put it on the cheesy lite rock station. Some really sappy ass song was on. I don't know the name of it and quite honestly, I don't wanna know the name of it. I was listening to teh song and this line said "this is the night" and my mind started to race and spin and suddenly, it hit me. I had tears in my eyes and I realized in my mind "Holy shit, this is the year!" I never really said anything about it because it just didn't seem like the right thing to do. I kept it to myself, just reminding myself of it during the low points of the season. And now I will go and call the men in the white suits to take me away :P
There were a lot of events from those two games that are seared in my memories. I mean we know the basics of awesome: David Ortiz being awesome, Wakefield's 3 IP in Game 5, Bill Mueller's single, Dave Roberts' stolen base, Foulke being like "fuck it" and kicking ass, DLowe regaining form, so many events you can point to and be all "That guy totally stepped up" and honestly? Everybody did step up and play a part. That is what is so awesome. Here's two moments from those two games that I think everybody forgets. And one factor of the ALCS as well.
First the factor: Manny Ramirez may have not have had a "huge bat" in most standards during that ALCS, but he was the table setter. You see he batted third and because Bellhorn and Johnny were all kinds of suck, that left Manny to be the table setter, to get on base for Papi's heroics. He hit .300 and had an OBP of .400. Not bad I gotta say. His power was missing, but he acted as Johnny and Bellhorn until they got their shit together.
And now the two moments.
The first moment is from Game 4 when Leskanic yousonofabitch pitched 1.1 innings of relief. Here's a guy fresh off a huge bitchslapping in Game 3, shoulder hanging by a thread, and basically the last hope of the team. Hell I remember everybody freaking out when he stepped out of the bullpen, which was being held together by toothpicks and bubblegum at this point. Bases loaded and 2 outs, adn Leskanic is up against Bernie Williams, he of the Postseason Prowess of Awesome. Leskanic have fear? Thousand times no. He induces a popup, ending the inning. He goes one more inning and K's Cairo for the final out. He picks up the win when Papi hit the walkoff. It was Leskanic's final outing ever. And needless to say, what a fucking way to go out. That's a way I wanna go out if I was a major leaguer, even if I did suck. To just step up for one moment in postseason.
The second moment is also from Game 4 of the ALCS. It's actually going into the 9th inning. A friend of mine I remember said "I don't care what you guys say, Foulke showed up this series" and I nodded in agreement. Anyways that's besides the fact. The song "Lose Yourself"-Eminem came on the PA as it went into the bottom of the 9th the day just about to change from October 17 to October 18. The 17th was the one year anniversary of Aaron Boone(in technical terms it is, because the walkoff happened after midnight). The minutes dwindled down as "Lose Yourself" played and Millar waited in the batters box. It seemed ironic at this point, almost mean spirited in any other way. What I remember the most is Fox showing the clock going from "11:59" to "12:00" as Millar stepped up to teh plate. It was a new day. It was almost as if someone was like "The mourning is now over....the healing can begin" Maybe I'm the only one who took it that way.
Ehhh I get all reflective and shit like that around now :P
Denis Leary said that anybody who said that they believed all along are full of shit and lying through their teeth. I must object to that, for my own self-promotional ways. I believed. I don't know why I believed. I think mostly though, I just wasn't ready to have the season end. Though, I had this feeling all throughout the season that there was somethign about this team. Even when tehy were down and out. I got signs left and right during the season. I'm sure you all saw signs as well, there was surely something in the air. But honestly, this may sound completely preposterous and perhaps it is, but back in May of that season, I had an epiphany. I was driving around and I don't remember exactly when it was in the year, it was definitely before the Phillies series, but that's as much as I know. I was parked in Cumby's just about to head in to grab a soda. I lingered around in the car for a few moments and I was changing it to another station, but my finger slipped and put it on the cheesy lite rock station. Some really sappy ass song was on. I don't know the name of it and quite honestly, I don't wanna know the name of it. I was listening to teh song and this line said "this is the night" and my mind started to race and spin and suddenly, it hit me. I had tears in my eyes and I realized in my mind "Holy shit, this is the year!" I never really said anything about it because it just didn't seem like the right thing to do. I kept it to myself, just reminding myself of it during the low points of the season. And now I will go and call the men in the white suits to take me away :P
There were a lot of events from those two games that are seared in my memories. I mean we know the basics of awesome: David Ortiz being awesome, Wakefield's 3 IP in Game 5, Bill Mueller's single, Dave Roberts' stolen base, Foulke being like "fuck it" and kicking ass, DLowe regaining form, so many events you can point to and be all "That guy totally stepped up" and honestly? Everybody did step up and play a part. That is what is so awesome. Here's two moments from those two games that I think everybody forgets. And one factor of the ALCS as well.
First the factor: Manny Ramirez may have not have had a "huge bat" in most standards during that ALCS, but he was the table setter. You see he batted third and because Bellhorn and Johnny were all kinds of suck, that left Manny to be the table setter, to get on base for Papi's heroics. He hit .300 and had an OBP of .400. Not bad I gotta say. His power was missing, but he acted as Johnny and Bellhorn until they got their shit together.
And now the two moments.
The first moment is from Game 4 when Leskanic yousonofabitch pitched 1.1 innings of relief. Here's a guy fresh off a huge bitchslapping in Game 3, shoulder hanging by a thread, and basically the last hope of the team. Hell I remember everybody freaking out when he stepped out of the bullpen, which was being held together by toothpicks and bubblegum at this point. Bases loaded and 2 outs, adn Leskanic is up against Bernie Williams, he of the Postseason Prowess of Awesome. Leskanic have fear? Thousand times no. He induces a popup, ending the inning. He goes one more inning and K's Cairo for the final out. He picks up the win when Papi hit the walkoff. It was Leskanic's final outing ever. And needless to say, what a fucking way to go out. That's a way I wanna go out if I was a major leaguer, even if I did suck. To just step up for one moment in postseason.
The second moment is also from Game 4 of the ALCS. It's actually going into the 9th inning. A friend of mine I remember said "I don't care what you guys say, Foulke showed up this series" and I nodded in agreement. Anyways that's besides the fact. The song "Lose Yourself"-Eminem came on the PA as it went into the bottom of the 9th the day just about to change from October 17 to October 18. The 17th was the one year anniversary of Aaron Boone(in technical terms it is, because the walkoff happened after midnight). The minutes dwindled down as "Lose Yourself" played and Millar waited in the batters box. It seemed ironic at this point, almost mean spirited in any other way. What I remember the most is Fox showing the clock going from "11:59" to "12:00" as Millar stepped up to teh plate. It was a new day. It was almost as if someone was like "The mourning is now over....the healing can begin" Maybe I'm the only one who took it that way.
Ehhh I get all reflective and shit like that around now :P