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I Loathe Big Papi and The Fans To Whom He Brings Joy By Rev Halofan nd I am sure if I met I gotta be honest here, and this the guy it would be is nothing I am proud about, Alike wow I shook Big Papi’s perhaps it reveals the low lev- hand and I would probably el of vicarious connection to go dumb-speechless like we all which I have sunk but anyway, get around the guys who have that Big Papi ruined played MLB. So it isn’t my team my night and I am not even a as I have kind of put the hopes Tigers fan, really, I just loathe for them on the shelf, frank- the Red Sox and especially ly, and it is nothing personal, , to see those fans the guy’s gotta make a living. 5 enjoy an epic, historic come- 6 back ...it has actually sick- But what that guy represents is ened me. Their indelible high everything I want to see forced has sickened me. I just want to sit in misery so abject that it to go to bed I am so sickened. cannot even be celebrated as that of the underdog. I want the This started off as a FaceBook lore of their franchise to be so post but now it typical that the only emotions “ that can be possibly rendered has really gotten under my skin. of that fan base is a sul- len dispossession of purpose.

Sure, my detesting of ” was born 27 years and one day ago with the Dave Hen- derson home off of Donnie Moore; but tonight’s feeling had more to do with the na- tional glamor this midling fran- DAVID ORTIZ chise has usurped than it does with anything involving just the Angels. And it was magni- Boston’s David Ortiz (known as “Big Papi”) was fied, amplified and everything named the ’ most valuable player. His but crucified Sunday night. average over the six games was .688 — the second-highest ever in a . 3 4

Boston is a land of memory. After all, it’s the On Saturday morning, a victory parade will It’s being compared to a divine balm to capital of a commonwealth, not just a state, make a symbolic gesture to confirm the resto- heal one of the darkest recent memories in evoking the colonial era. And when it comes ration of a great city: the procession will cross America: the terror bombings at the Boston to baseball, well, how many times have we over the marathon’s finish line -- still marked Marathon last April. “It lifts the spirit back up heard the yarn about how the antique Fen- on the street -- where the explosions occurred. after the marathon,” one woman told CNN way Park endured nearly a century of pain True Meaning of in Boston during a post-game street celebra- without a World Series championship? tion this week so loud that it wasn’t possible The parade will follow the same route used to get her name. “They obviously deserve it. Now the have won their to celebrate the team’s championship in I feel like I knew it was going to happen.” third title in nine years -- at Fenway, no less 2004, when it broke the streak for not win- It’s being compared to a divine balm to heal one -- but this victory seems to deeper mean- ning a World Series, the team said. The of the darkest recent memories in America: the ter- ing than just winning a sporting crown. team’s last championship was in 2007. ror bombings at the last April. WORLD SERIES BELIEVE IT !

The Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in 6 games to win the . This marks the first time that the Red Sox have clinched a World Series title at since 1918, and it is also the third world championship for the team in the past 10 years. The Red Sox BOSTON RED SOXS also won the World Series in 2004 and 2007. World Champions 2013