{"id":22,"date":"2004-10-28T09:53:06","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/28\/love-that-dirty-water\/"},"modified":"2004-12-01T10:41:10","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T15:41:10","slug":"love-that-dirty-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/28\/love-that-dirty-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Love That Dirty Water…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sox<\/p>\n

The Yankees have Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” to play when they win a home game. Boston has a song about dirty water. Somehow it’s fitting; somehow, we wouldn’t–couldn’t<\/em>–have it any other way.<\/p>\n

They did it. They DID IT! <\/a><\/p>\n

It was a great commute today. I imagine everyone was just a little nicer, a little less pushy on the crowded city streets; people looked you in the eye and nodded ‘good morning’ to you on the sidewalk; even the sun seemed to shine a little brighter this morning, pushing out the recent gloom and streaming over the green side of Fenway Park–and the Sox’ logo–facing the turnpike.<\/p>\n

This doesn’t happen everyday. Not in Boston, and not even in the history of baseball. To come back after a 3-game losing streak in the American League Championship Series, not just to WIN that series, but to go on and SWEEP the World Series and OWN the team with the<\/em> best overall-wins record in the regular season that year? AND, for that winning team to be the Red Sox<\/em>, who haven’t won a World Series since 1918? When people say they’ve been waiting their whole lives for this, most of them actually mean it. I don’t even know what to say about it, accept that, as one radio announcer pointed out, it’s indeed a “great day to be alive and to live in the city of Boston.”<\/p>\n

I know, it’s just a game. And there are more important things. But these are simple joys we can be thankful for… So, Yankees? Cardinals? Deepest thanks from the heart of Boston!<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Cause I “love that dirty water… Boston, you’re my home<\/em>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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