GAME ONE WORLD SERIES: SOX WIN 8-4 !

Nunez hit a three run homer - 8-4 Sox ! Top of the 8th !
Fox did not show Carl 'Yaz' Yastrzemski throw out the first pitch; they are seriously lame. And biased.

Great coverage in the Globe including a double rainbow over Fenway after a streaky storm around 5:30. Weird weather all day....

More tomorrow....good night....

10.24.18 GOOD MORNING

The first article in the Globe had this timely comment - I thought of Roby and laughed out loud:

"The Dodgers broke my heart when they left Brooklyn. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THEM FOR THIS. NEVER! I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THE SOX TO KICK THEIR BUTTS BUT I MUST ADMIT IT WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO SATISFY THE ANGUISH THE O'MALLEYS PUT ME THROUGH. There is a generation of people like me who thought the Dodgers in Brooklyn was forever. But alas, this was not to be. Kids today simply will never understand the pain the Dodgers caused. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for them. Waiting to go to the tryouts in Ebbets Field, making the team, and playing along side Koufax. This of course never happened so I did the next best thing- got a doctorate and cried myself to sleep. GO SOX."

According to Sandler lore, Roby tried out to be a Red Sox player after he graduated from high school but did not make the team as did the above mentioned long suffering Brooklyn Dodgers fan. Becoming a Professor of English was second best - such is the Sandler baseball obsession. Moving to Florida did not stop Roby from rooting for the Sox forever. A lifelong fan. I even got an email from Barry yesterday morning stating: "GOETH SOX ! " channeling Roby and Shirley and Aunt Ruth and ME ! Everyone in Boston is talking the Red Sox. Lots of Dodgers fans in the city. You can talk to perfect strangers about baseball and the Sox - usually people in Boston would not dream of talking to someone they don't know. Not now.  On to Game 2 and David Price who has redeemed himself to Sox fans by pitching six shutout innings to the Yankees in the playoffs. FINALLY, David Price won a game in the post-season. We are happy. No more, "take the opt out clause in your contract after this season." Boston fans are merciless, locked in to every pitch and every play.  GO SOX    GO SOX     GO SOX