The Red Sox Party and Party Hard…
If you were one of the few who got to celebrate up in Beantown, tell me your story!
Anyhow, the Red Sox partied in front of their fans yesterday afternoon in celebration of their 2007 World Series title. The fans up there no doubt love their Sox and seemingly have put away all their misery from the past century away.
Players and their families boarded 20 amphibious, World War II-era duck boats outside the stadium for a journey through the city. Manny Ramirez grabbed a microphone and yelled to fans along the route. “You guys are No. 1.” “There’s a party at my house tonight.” “We did it for you guys.” “We’re gonna do it again next year.” “You guys are the best fans in the whole world.”
Fans showed their love back for the team, chanting “MVP” to Mike Lowell and waving signs with wedding proposals to rookie Jacoby Ellsbury.
The two-hour parade paused three times for Papelbon to dance on a flatbed truck, accompanied by the Dropkick Murphys, a Boston-based punk rock band with heavy Irish folk music influence.
Before the parade, the band presented Papelbon with his own kilt plus one for ace Josh Beckett and general manager Theo Epstein, who had promised to dance with him. They also made a kilt for slugger David Ortiz, whom they hoped to coax into the jig.
At the first two stops at Copley Plaza and Boston Common, Papelbon danced alone, wearing jeans, a red championship T-shirt and dark sunglasses and waving a large cigar in his hand. Along the route, played air guitar on a broom - a reference to Boston’s sweep of the Colorado Rockies.
Again, let’s congratulate the 2007 World Champs, the Boston Red Sox.
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:53 pm
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