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Are the Red Sox for real?

Published Wednesday, October 27, 2004 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

Can this really be happening? Yes. But why, oh why, does everyone insist on saying that this may have been Pedro Martinez's last start for the team? That is the conventional wisdom. And yet, the conventional wisdom also said that the Red Sox could never win another World Series...so if they seal the deal and reverse the curse, all bets on breaking up the team are off. You'd have to believe that the team and its potential free agents would be more willing to negotiate in the wake of all that New England goodwill.

Of course, first the Red Sox need to seal the deal. Keep the faith.

Note this, though. Before Game 7 against the Yankees, the team watched the movie, Miracle, about the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, which shocked the "Evil Empire" Soviets. That also was a semi-final. The gold-medal matchup against Finland lacked that drama, but everyone seemed to be OK with that.