Kings of New England

Glory to God in the highest and peace to his people on Earth for the Red Sox have won the World Series. It has probably been the most exciting week of baseball in my life and I’m happy the Red Sox have finally won. What follows are some thoughts I had while watching Game 4:

Johnny Damon with a leadoff homerun – yep, he’s Jesus!

Why are they showing Boston fans in a New York bar? It’s traditional to show fans at a bar in the opposite city during what could be the last game of the World Series, but shouldn’t they have found a bar in Boston? The Red Sox are still a Boston team, right?

In FOX’s ongoing quest to ruin baseball with the ironic addition of pop songs, they played that Bonnie Tyler song while showing shots of the lunar eclipse. Here’s a tip for FOX: if I can think up the same ideas you are paying people to work on, it’s probably time to either find some new people or just hire me instead. I guarantee that I’ll work cheaper and will never suggest you play “Sweet Caroline” after the last game of the World Series (this actually happened last night).

The 2004 St. Louis Cardinals have to be one of the biggest disappointments ever. This will get overshadowed by the fact that the Red Sox finally won, but this team was the best team in baseball this year and they have looked horrible in these four games.

Did the guy from Creed just sing “God Bless America”?! Was Collective Soul already booked? Did it fall through with Johnny Rzeznik? Could they not work out Gavin Rossdale’s contract rider? Sheesh! That was just embarrassing.

What the hell were Jimmy Fallon & Drew Barrymore doing kissing on the field after the game? I realize they have some Red Sox-themed romantic comedy coming out soon, but this is just as bad as the announcers conducting an “interview” with a fictional character from a beer commercial during Game 3. That has to go down as one of the worst moves by a network ever in covering the World Series. Whoever accidentally cut to a black & white porno during the pregame show in 1989 is officially off the hook.

As bad as FOX’s coverage of postseason baseball gets, it still can’t hold a candle to the trashy spectacle that is the Super Bowl. Only three more months until then! More importantly, only 4 more months until the most glorious words of the year: pitchers and catchers report.