Red Sox relief

Series champs rest from their labors | Marvin Olasky

“GOOD AT SOMETHING”: Red Sox players celebrate with champagne

When the Boston Red Sox won their fourth straight World Series game last week and garnered their second ultimate championship in four years, I of course read story after story about the victory. Here's a braggadocio sampling from the Boston Globe's guy writers:

  • Dan Shaughnessy: "The Boston Red Sox have emerged as hardball monsters of the new millennium."
  • Gordon Edes: "A minute that used to recur like a comet, once 86 years or so and missed by generations of Red Sox fans, is now beginning to feel like a birthright."
  • Bob Ryan, addressing Red Sox fans: "You've got the best baseball team in the world to call your own. There's nothing wrong with just lording it over people."

Nothing wrong, on ethical but also factual grounds? Events almost always seem inevitable in retrospect, but in process the imitation of life called baseball is regularly up for grabs.