Red Sox Postseason Ditty: "This October"

   This is a parody of Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night"  

    This October
  
Late October at the Fens
The Red Sox are champions

The World Series they did win.

Let the champagne flow again!

Tears of joy the fans have shed

Soldier’s helmet on Gomes’ head.

Players hoisting the trophy

Big Papi is MVP

   Beat the Cards in six, clinch the series at Fenway!

   Hooray!

   For the first time since nineteen hundred and eighteen. 

   Oh wow! 

This October…

The Red Sox first faced the Rays

Price and Moore’d seen better days

Maddon’s team got out-Fenway’ed

This October…

Series moved on to the Trop

Salty beaten by catwalk.

Koji’s human—we forgot!

This October

They dispatched the Rays in four

Peavy just let one run score

And then Koji slammed the door

This October…

Then the Tigers came to town

Game 1 saw the Sox shut down

Oh no-o-o!

Next October…

Do it all again! 

Next October

Do it all again! 

Game 2, Papi hit a slam

Game 3, Lackey was the man

Napoli hit a home run

All they needed was just one. 

Game 4 turned into a loss

Peavy no longer was boss

In Game 5 Nap led the way

Red Sox just one win away

    Shane Victorino hit a grand slam in Game 6—Yeah! Oh Yeah!

    Beat the Tigers and headed to the World Series!  Sweet!

This October

So the two best teams got in

Each with 97 wins

In the Fall Classic again

This October

The Sox blew Wainwright away

Cards’ bad defense made ‘em pay

Beltran took Papi’s slam away

This October

Wacha held the Red Sox down

And their defense screwed around

Breslow’s mojo left the mound

This October

Game 3 did not go well at all

Lost on an obstruction call—Now what the hell? 

Next October

Do it all again!

Next October

Do it all again! 

Buchholz throwing 86. 

He pitched four and then Felix

Papi’s pep talk hit the spot. 

Jonny hit a three run shot

Lackey pitched out of the ‘pen. 

Koji’s pickoff sealed the win.

Game 5, Lester was an ace.  

Put the Cardinals in their place.

  For Game 6 they were back at Fenway Park

  Sweet home!   Oh yeah! 

  Lackey on the mound, Victorino knocks in four!   SHANF!

 

This October

Yes they went from worst to first

Boston Strong, no talk of curse

And the Red Sox won the purse

This October. 

Three World Series wins, nine years

Reggae music in our ears

Fenway Park erupts in cheers!

Next October

Do it all again!

Next October

Do it all again!

Heartbreak Never Came

   As much fun as it is to see my team in the playoffs, those games are STRESSFUL to watch!   The level of emotional investment is as sky-high as the stakes in October.   They literally turn me into a crazy person and I have the tweets to prove it.   There was virtual (and actual) hand-wringing and a few tweets I'd like to take back, like the one during Game 4 where I wished the Red Sox had never made it to the World Series.   Yes, I actually tweeted that and I'm happy to eat a heaping dose of cyber-crow.   Watching the offense struggle against Lance Lynn while Buchholz was walking a tightrope and the Red Sox came into the game facing a 2-1 deficit was making me apoplectic.   Rational thought and that thing called perspective (and where a baseball game, even a World Series baseball game, fits into the grand scheme of things) goes out the window during those moments when you're living and dying with every pitch.  The stress!  The angst!   The futile attempts to prepare myself for October heartbreak that seemed to lurk in the shadows!   I needed that pep talk from Papi as much as the team did. 

   But that heartbreak never came.   Not when Koji proved himself very much human by allowing Jose Lobaton to deposit his pitch into the Ray tank for a walkoff homer.   Not when Anibal Sanchez and Max Scherzer were mowing the Red Sox offense down strikeout by strikeout.   Not when the Tigers tied up the series by lighting Peavy up like a Christmas tree.   Not when Craig Breslow threw the ball away.  Not when a horizontal Middlebrooks was ruled an obstruction and Allen Craig limped home for the winning Cardinals run.   Not when Buchholz's fastball sat in the mid-80s.   Not when Wacha was looking dominant early on and the Cards were hitting rockets off of Lackey.   Not when Lackey was given one more batter and walked him.   The Red Sox got past all of that and, like Linus's Great Pumpkin, October heartbreak never showed up.   Not in 2013.  Not for the Red Sox.