Sox won convincingly, classily
So, did Mayor Walsh announce that Wednesday’s Red Sox procession of the duck boats would take the “usual route,” the way Montreal’s mayor once announced a Canadiens championship parade?
Sorry. I guess that was a cheap shot. Then again, the way your city has had opportunities to celebrate the last few years, I can’t imagine too many New Englanders are still sensitive over long-ago Canadiens-Bruins battles. (We in L.A. have our own grudge with the Canadiens.)
Really, we’re not too jealous out here, even though the last Dodgers victory parade featured Tom Lasorda doing the Twist (badly) on the podium outside City Hall, upholding his pledge that there would be dancing in the streets after a Dodger championship. It’s three decades, but it seems like … uh, 30 years ago.
Props to the Red Sox for winning convincingly, and classily. Yeah, there’s some grumbling among Dodger fans about Dave Roberts’ managerial strategy — quite a bit, actually — but it’s hard to argue that the Dodgers had many paths toward victory. There were a few narrow ones, but when you’re playing a 108-win team you almost have to be perfect, and they weren’t.
The scene that may stick in my memory came more than two hours after the final out. Normally deserted by then, the Dodger Stadium field was still occupied by maybe a couple hundred people, some of them media members but many appearing to be friends and family members of Red Sox personnel.
In baseball when the victors storm the field, it’s quite civilized.