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The chant would come every time they played in New York City. "Nine-teen eight-teen." Win or lose against the Yankees,Moncler Jackets UK, they would hear it rise from the bleachers and spread to the box seats. Those are far from the unkindest words that could be directed your way in the South Bronx, but to members of Red Sox Nation,uggs outlet nederland, as fans of Boston's baseball team are known, they burned with particular intensity, scarlet letters on their sporting souls, because the words reminded them that the Red Sox hadn't tasted a World Series championship since Babe Ruth was the team's star player. For generations of New Englanders, it had been axiomatic: When the leaves fall, so do the Red Sox. Yet for 86 years,UGG Bottes Femme, fans were bonded by this epic failure. It nurtured in them an almost messianic belief that somedaythis year, surely their time would come. Wherever Sox fans lived, they carried their quest with them, a treasured keepsake of home.

The Celtics have won 16 NBA championships,Bottes UGG, the Bruins five Stanley Cups and the Patriots two Super Bowls. Those were appreciated, but New England's soul belonged to the denizens of Fenway Park. Citizens of Red Sox Nation even came to believe they had been cursed. Baseball may no longer be America's pastime, but it has always been Boston's passion play. And last week the good guys finally triumphed. The Red Sox won the World Series.

"This is for everyone who played for the Red Sox, who's rooted for the Red Sox, whose relatives rooted for the Red Soxit is so much bigger than the 25 guys in this clubhouse," enthused Boston's general manager Theo Epstein as his team sprayed champagne around the clubhouse after sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in four games. Just 30 years young, Epstein is living every Boston fan's childhood fantasy, leading the team he has rooted forand suffered withto that long-elusive championship. "In New England,Piumini Moncler," he said,UGGS Kensington, eyes welling, "this is life."

If you want to bury a ghost, you have to dig a very deep hole. And the Sox had dug themselves a doozy: down three games to none against the pin-striped demons of New York, Boston trailed, 4-3, as the team headed into the bottom of the ninth inning of what could have been the final game of the American League Championship Series (ALCS), three outs from another despairing winter.

But the team that had comported every characteristic of human frailty would become the immortals of New England, the ones who reversed the curse. They rallied somehow to win that game and took the next seven--a record run of eight straight postseason victories. Did you hear that, Babe? Not since the visiting Redcoats lost to the hometown Colonials in 1776 has Boston celebrated like this. As victory drew near--the finale was a 3-0 game in which the Cards played as though the curse had struck them--thousands of fans gathered near Fenway, while across New England, from the Maine woods to the divided turf of Connecticut, there was teary joy. Even in Manhattan,Moncler UK, deep within enemy territory, expats of the Red Sox Nation poured into the streets to celebrate as the locals,Chaussures UGG Pas Cher, for once, quietly seethed. Some 3.2 million fans thronged Boston for the victory parade, so many that the parade route was extended into the Charles River by boat.


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