Behind Lackey, Red Sox have chance to win it all at Fenway

[Crewleader]

With a win tonight at Fenway Park in Game 6, the Red Sox can wrap up the World Series. John Lackey will the get start for Boston while Michael Wacha will take the mound for the Cardinals.

By JON COUTURE
At Fenway Park
October 30, 2013 12:00 AM

The 1918 World Series was no jewel. World War I looted talent league-wide that year, forced a shortened season and rendered the Fall Classic an afterthought (at best) outside Boston and Chicago. The last gasp of the dead-ball era, the Red Sox beat the Cubs by scoring just nine runs in six games. Before Game 5, unhappy with a plan to drastically cut their Series payouts, the players combined to stage a strike that delayed first pitch by an hour.

Fans were furious, especially given the backdrop of the war, and just 15,238 came to a chilly Fenway Park the next day to see the Sox clinch what remains their last championship won at home. For their troubles, the league withheld the players' winner's medallions — they weren't distributed until 1993 — and each Sox regular received still the lowest share in Series history: about $1,100.

Not adjusted for inflation, right around what the cheapest ticket for tonight's potential clincher will cost when you're reading this. (It's $983.75 — for standing room, mind you — as I write this.) Even in modern dollars, that share's less than a half-day's pay for John Lackey.

The man with a chance to seal his, and his team's, place next door in history.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131030/SPORTS/310300333

[Crewleader]

1. Red Sox Cartoon

[pintobean]

5. Well, I'm glad

they're removing those birds from the Cardinals' bats.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Gonna be a good one!

Who'd have thunk that Red Sox Nation would be watching this series play out in Boston, after the past 2 disastrous seasons? Go Boston!

[Crewleader]

3. You said it friend.

Go Boston!

[joeybee12]

4. Don't jinx them!

[Crewleader]

6. A Reminder For You joeybee12

Ritual, prayer and crossing your feet: Fans share Red Sox superstitions



http://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/ritual-prayer-and-crossing-your-feet-fans-share-red-sox/article_cac060b5-3f9b-5aef-811b-58ed51db96db.html

[joeybee12]

7. A friend jumped on the bandwagon this year...after having gone to 2 Fenway games...

She said she was alternating her red Sox jersey with her blue one while watching the series, and after game 4 they were winning with the blue, losing when she wore red, so she wore blue on game 5!

[Crewleader]

8. Good to hear it joeybee12

[Chan790]

9. Yay!

[Crewleader]

10. Red Sox Win 2013 World Series

Tears of Joy for this Boston Red Sox Fan!



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[edbermac]

11. Lackey's turnaround was amazing.

2 years ago I thought Mr Chicken'n'Beer was an overpaid useless bum who ought to be pitching in Pawtucket.