While I was growing up, my father always told me about fantastic past Red Sox players like Dwight evens, Luis tiant, yaz and many more. I would sit down with him and watch old highlights and ask why tiant threw so funny and watch the Sox play Cincinnati as he explained to me how great both teams were at the time. I watched the famous Carlton Fisk waving so hard until that ball struck that pole in left field. I can even remember watching videos of just before i got into baseball such as the infamous decision making with Pedro vs the Yankees. No matter what old recording of the red sox it was i can always remember that feeling, the feeling of awe as i looked over the century of great players. these players appeared as semi godly figures only still alive on stories recorded on old school television or by a red seat in the right field bleachers.
I was thinking back on these memories following the Red Sox terrific run leading them to world series victory, when i realized...... All those great players that won the world series yesterday will be the immortal beings of redsox folklore only a short time from now. Instead of Tiant we will be able to cite pedro, we can note the bloody sock and the come back vs the yankees down 3-0 in the series,we can pay homage to Beckett in 07 and Lester in 2013, and we can reflect on all the terrific players and personalities over the years (ortiz,manny, millar, faulk, pedroia etc etc). It's not all good. for every Johnny Damon there's a coco crisp, and for every buckner there is a dice k. But the thing to pay attention to is just how grand of a contribution to red sox history has been made in this short decade. It truly is a great time to be a fan.
