He's Forgotten but Not Yet Gone

So this is justice? After waiting 86 years in between their last championship seasons, the oft-mentioned Red Sox nation only had to wait 3 years in between titles this time. It's hard to get worked up hating the Red Sox. I realize that their fanbase has multiplied in recent years like two much rabbits with excessive leisure time, but I can't hold it against them. Players like Big Papi, Manny, Schilling, Lowell, Beckett, and the certifiably insane Jonathan Papelbon make for an interesting team and one that is certainly preferable to a championship run by the evil empire.

Now, as the curtain closes on yet another baseball season, we're all undefeated again. In a few months pitchers and catchers will report to their respective spring training sites and everyone will have the opportunity to call themselves 2008 World Series champions. Here's the crazy thing: I'm not even necessarily asking for that. All I want is the chance to be relevant again. For Michael Young to not waste his entire career playing for Rangers teams that are all but mathematically eliminated by the time August rolls around. That's all I'm asking for in 2008.

Well, unless that somehow causes Tom Hicks to take his focus off of Liverpool. If that happens, all bets are off.