Couple of quick thoughts before the links:
I can't believe the Yankees trotted out Bucky Dent to throw out the first pitch. It was like te Yankees thought they needed hlep from ghosts or whatever. Pretty weak.
This was the best uprising from the bullied since George McFly laid out Biff. Not only would the bullying stop afterward, but everything else got better because of it. I'm the first to admit that line sounds like a Simmons ripoff, but I liked it anyway.
New York Tab Heads:
Post: Damned Yankess... What a Choke
Daily News: Web Site Chokeless
Choke's on us and Hell freezes over
Newsday: Battered, the B is the Red Sox B. They're History
One of Bob Ryan's strengths has always been that he's the voice of the common man, while still spinning words like a craftsman. This is a prime example of that..
Derek Lowe is why sport is great. A Derek Lowe saga is what separates Sport from Entertainment. Sport is not scripted. There is no play list, no repetition. The great element in Sport is the unknown. We love these games because we do not know what to expect when they start. We also love them because we can never be sure where our heroes are coming from. Right now it's hard to imagine any more unlikely candidates for this kind of heroics than a guy who was bumped from the starting rotation prior to the Anaheim series and whose playoff role was fuzzy, at best. Derek Lowe gets the win in Anaheim 3. Derek Lowe starts New York 4 and does a nice job. Derek Lowe starts New York 7 -- merely the most important task he's ever been given in his baseball life -- and he pitches as well as he possibly can. Go ahead, you explain it.
Big picture stuff from:
Gordon Edes
Shaughnessy. (Cheer up Dan. Even if this success hurts sales of Curse of the Bambino, it probably helps the Fenway books).
Tony Mas
Simmons delivers what you'd expect.
I just watched my beloved Red Sox win the American League pennant. That's only happened twice in my lifetime. I watched them rally back from three games down in a playoff series. That's never happened before, not in the history of baseball. I also just watched the Sox beat the Yankees in a deciding playoff game. Not only has that never happened before, it's a possible sign of the apocalypse. Now get this ... all three things happened at the same time.
This was the funniest line from it:
...thanks to yet another bone-headed decision from the immortal Dale Sveum. If this guy was a school crossing guard, little kids would be getting pancaked by SUVs like Tony Mandarich in his prime.
Thomas Boswell
My father-in-law, Irving "Sheik" Karelis, was born in 1920 in New England, the very year the Red Sox sent Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. By the time Karelis was 6, he was a devoted Red Sox fan. In his twenties, he pitched his way to the top of the Red Sox farm system, but never quite got to Fenway Park. Since then, like millions of others, he has spent an entire lifetime hoping, dreaming, moaning and waiting. Waiting for what? Waiting for Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium, that's what.
Jackie Mac on Derek Lowe
Woj
The following paragraphs closed his column:
The old Yankees lurked like living, breathing ghosts Wednesday night. George Steinbrenner was so desperate to stir the demons dancing over those Sox, he commissioned Bucky Dent to throw out the first pitch. The Boss had Yogi Berra catch it.
This was one of those nights at the Stadium when the Yankees wanted so desperately to believe they could run hours of Yankeeography and drag out those lifelong beaters of Boston and just pray there was some mysterious force of nature lingering that wouldn't allow history's course to be altered. They wanted to believe that when the dust cleared, they just couldn't lose to the Red Sox.
Once and for all, it was no longer true. This is the hardest truth in metropolitan New York this morning. The Red Sox beat the Yankees, and now, they're going to be in the World Series where it is possible they could face the Houston Astros' Roger Clemens in Game 7 on Halloween night. This would mean no more "1918" chants at the Stadium, no more divine right to just beat them to a bloody pulp.
Pigs flashed through the sky, the Devils packed a snowball and the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees.
Wetzel
Ian O'Connor said Payback is a pitch
Morrissey said Pedro gets the last laugh
"Tim Wakefield said to me, 'Last year we left this locker room crying about the way things went,' " Martinez said. "At this point, we are having the last laugh."
He's got one on Ortiz too.
Bernie Williams is classy.
Post says ARod is the face of Yankee Failure
Jon Heyman doesn't mince words
Like a soulless, selfish loser, the Yankees crashed and burned in Game 7 last night. George Steinbrenner bought and built this team with $185 million. He got almost everything he wanted but forgot to acquire a heart.
Lenn Robbins said Jeter will take this personally
Cashman is in trouble
