memories of the 2004 World Series

[sross1800]

Hi there! My name's Sean! I'm 22 years old, and I've got autism. Since next year will be the 10th anniversary of the Red Sox's first World Series win in 86 years since 1918 (aka the end of "The Curse of the Bambino"), what memories do you have from the 2004 World Series, with manager Terry Francona, and players like Mark Bellhorn, Curt Schilling, Pedro Martinez, Johnny Damon, Manny Ramirez, Keith Foulke, Bronson Arroyo, Jason Varitek, Bill Mueller, Nomar Garciaparra, Orlando Cabrera, Doug Mientkiewicz, David Ortiz, Kevin Millar, Dave Roberts, Tim Wakefield, Kevin Millar, Doug Mirabelli, Trot Nixon, Alan Embree, Mike Timlin, and Derek Lowe?

 

Thanks!

Sean

[Whiteandnerdy42]

Joe Castiglione's amazing call of the final play: "A ground ball, stabbed by Foulke. He has it. He underhands to first, and the Boston Red Sox are the World Champions! Can you believe it?!?!?"

[Dojji]

My fondest memory is hearing the "1918" chant for the last time. Watching Game 7 of the ALCS was the most euphoric baseball experience I've ever had. Being able to enjoy a blowout at that point of a series that had gone the way this one had was just so awesome.

 

No disrespect to the World Series itself, but the 2004 ALCS completely eclipsed anything I've ever experienced. A sweep of a great Cardinals team should have been one of the most impressive things that team did, but it didn't even hold a candle to the ALCS comeback.

 

And are there two teams historied Sox fans longed to put away in humiliating fashion in the CS and WS more than the Yankees and the Cardinals? We're talking about probably the greatest and most historically successful franchise of each league, and what's more, the Cards had embarrassed us multiple times in our own quests for greatness.

[mvp 78]

Memories of Nomar, him sulking in the dugout during the Yankees series and being traded soon after.

 

I remember watching the game 3 ALCS debacle and feeling like the season was over. I listened to the 9th inning of game 4 as I was on the way home from work. When Ortiz hit the walk off, I remember going crazy and probably scaring my dog. Same thing for game 5. For game 7, I remember punching the wall when ARod slapped at Bronson's glove and my upstairs neighbor coming downstais because he heard things were going crazy in NYC.

 

As for the WS, I missed game 1 as I was at a Social D show. Game 4 I watched at JJ Foley's in Boston. When they won, I ran outside to call my dad. A stranger walked up to me saying "wooooo, they did it" gave me a bro hug and tried to sell me weed. I called my dad and could hear my mom yelling like crazy in the background. I went back inside and had some whiskey shots.

 

I'm not sure this answers your question though.

[kapsis21]

Game 4, Millar draws a walk... Dave Roberts stealing that base. and then comes the tying run by Bill Mueller, and Papi to the rescue in extras.

ALCS was just epic..

Game 5 the pitching from Wakefield in extras.

Game 6 the bloody sock..

Game 7 the grand slam..

 

and lots of moments in between.

[a700hitter]

My Dad (who was age 86 at the time) called me immediately after the last out. He was so happy. He lived to see the second championship in 2007. He was the best buddy I ever had.

[rorschach]

Memories of Nomar, him sulking in the dugout during the Yankees series and being traded soon after.

 

I remember watching the game 3 ALCS debacle and feeling like the season was over. I listened to the 9th inning of game 4 as I was on the way home from work. When Ortiz hit the walk off, I remember going crazy and probably scaring my dog. Same thing for game 5. For game 7, I remember punching the wall when ARod slapped at Bronson's glove and my upstairs neighbor coming downstais because he heard things were going crazy in NYC.

 

As for the WS, I missed game 1 as I was at a Social D show. Game 4 I watched at JJ Foley's in Boston. When they won, I ran outside to call my dad. A stranger walked up to me saying "wooooo, they did it" gave me a bro hug and tried to sell me weed. I called my dad and could hear my mom yelling like crazy in the background. I went back inside and had some whiskey shots.

 

I'm not sure this answers your question though.

 

Lol, that is fantastic!

 

I remember I was working nights at the time so I missed the whole series (live that is, had the VCR programed), however spoilers were a foregone conclusion. I was working as a cabinetmaker att ALCS, Game 4, I was screaming at the top of my lungs jumping up and down on my table, and rolling down the mainline conveyer. And that was just at the news of the Sox pulling off the never done before miracle! I went home and watched the game I had taped, and got smashloaded and streaked down the halls of my apartment building naked! Now I'm from Illinois (so not alot of Boston Red Sox fans here, just Cubs, Cards & a few scattered Yankee fans) so not many shared my enthusiasm lol.

[BSN07]

My Dad (who was age 86 at the time) called me immediately after the last out. He was so happy. He lived to see the second championship in 2007. He was the best buddy I ever had.

 

I called my mother(the reason for my Red Sox madness ) right after the last out just to listen to her run around the living room screaming. That is probably my fondest memory.

 

As for on the field I remember more about the Yankees series then the actual WS. Like dojji said perfectly, game 7 was a euphoric feeling like no other. They played the ESPN 30/30 special "4 days in October" the other night, still a great watch every time I see it It's kind of mind blowing the 10 year anniversary is next year.

[a700hitter]

I called my mother(the reason for my Red Sox madness ) right after the last out just to listen to her run around the living room screaming. That is probably my fondest memory.

 

As for on the field I remember more about the Yankees series then the actual WS. Like dojji said perfectly, game 7 was a euphoric feeling like no other. They played the ESPN 30/30 special "4 days in October" the other night, still a great watch every time I see it It's kind of mind blowing the 10 year anniversary is next year.

If I had read the script of the Yankee series before it happened, I would have said that it was too unrealistic to be a good fictional story.

[Bellhorn04]

My wife still likes to tell stories about what a nervous wreck I was. During the games I was chain-smoking cigarettes and I wasn't even a serious smoker at the time. I was still nervous right up until the final out, and then I was in some sort of state of euphoria combined with disbelief. I had been waiting for about 35 years and I had reached the point that I had very little confidence I'd ever see it happen.

[a700hitter]

My wife still likes to tell stories about what a nervous wreck I was. During the games I was chain-smoking cigarettes and I wasn't even a serious smoker at the time. I was still nervous right up until the final out, and then I was in some sort of state of euphoria combined with disbelief. I had been waiting for about 35 years and I had reached the point that I had very little confidence I'd ever see it happen.

My son and I watched game 4 together. He left early the next morning to go back to college. We spent most of the next 3 games on the phone while watching the games. He was watching on cable and I was watching on satelite which is 10 -15 seconds slower. In Game 6, I almost had a heart attack on the ARod dribbler. My son was giving me the play by play before I was seeing the action. When he told me that the ball was rolling around in right field and Jeter had scored, my heart sank. When the umps huddled and reversed the call (the second reversed call of the night), that was the first time that I really thought we would win the series. The Yankees never had calls reversed against them.

 

In game 7, I was still nervous in the last inning after having lived through heartbreak on many prior ocassions. My son brought me to my senses on the other end of the phone when he asked me how big of a lead I would have to have to feel comfortable. With that, I realized that a 7 run lead in the 9th inning was plenty and I started to enjoy it.

[BSN07]

If I had read the script of the Yankee series before it happened, I would have said that it was too unrealistic to be a good fictional story.

 

It was basically a Hollywood script acted out in real life that's how unrealistic it was. I still watch all the highlights and documentary's and have to remind myself they do win because it all seems so unlikely.

[seabeachfred]

What I remember about the 2004 World Series? That is was the best birthday present I ever received. I happened to be in New York at the time for the 100th Anniversary of the New York City Subway, October 27, 1904----October 27, 2004. I was giving the Yankee fans there a lot of s*** from what had transpired in the ALCS and was backed my the Mets fans who had been rotting for us to beat their hated co-residents. That night I watch the game in my hotel room with my Yankee fan roomate putting plugs in his ears and refusing to watch the game. Screw him I said and enjoyed every minute of it.

 

The ALCS was a dream come true and for me it happened in the 8th inning of the 6th game when A-Fraud was called out at second base after his cheap and illegal shot at Bronson Arroyo. It was right then I told my Linda that this was it.......we were not going to win this series and then take care of the Cardinals in the Fall Classic. I just knew it when the umps made that decision.

[Bellhorn04]

In Game 6, I almost had a heart attack on the ARod dribbler. My son was giving me the play by play before I was seeing the action. When he told me that the ball was rolling around in right field and Jeter had scored, my heart sank. When the umps huddled and reversed the call (the second reversed call of the night), that was the first time that I really thought we would win the series. The Yankees never had calls reversed against them.

 

That was a nightmarish moment before the umps fixed it. I was cringing when Tito brought Arroyo in for the 8th. It was a gutsy move, really. Arroyo was about the only reliever who wasn't totally gassed that night. Makes you realize what an awesome job it was by Schilling to go 7.

 

The bottom of the 9th in Game 6 was no picnic to watch either. Foulke was struggling big time. I believe I was in another room when Clark struck out to end it.

[rorschach]

My wife still likes to tell stories about what a nervous wreck I was. During the games I was chain-smoking cigarettes and I wasn't even a serious smoker at the time. I was still nervous right up until the final out, and then I was in some sort of state of euphoria combined with disbelief. I had been waiting for about 35 years and I had reached the point that I had very little confidence I'd ever see it happen.

 

Same here, when I finally got to see the last out of Game 4 of the WS, I jumped out of my seat and screamed (even though it was on tape and I had already been celebrating because I had heard the outcome from the next shift coming in after me.) Anyways, I jumped up screamed, and then fell into a strange silence, a weird sort of disbelief and just remember thinking to myself, there really are no words that I could think of that would have been proper for such a unbelievable moment. I also remember having the distinct feeling, that somehow Red Sox fans all around the country were just as bewildered as myself. Almost as if I could picture millions of fans letting out a initial yelp of joy, and then falling deathly silent almost in a shared state of shock

[a700hitter]

Same here, when I finally got to see the last out of Game 4 of the WS, I jumped out of my seat and screamed (even though it was on tape and I had already been celebrating because I had heard the outcome from the next shift coming in after me.) Anyways, I jumped up screamed, and then fell into a strange silence, a weird sort of disbelief and just remember thinking to myself, there really are no words that I could think of that would have been proper for such a unbelievable moment. I also remember having the distinct feeling, that somehow Red Sox fans all around the country were just as bewildered as myself. Almost as if I could picture millions of fans letting out a initial yelp of joy, and then falling deathly silent almost in a shared state of shock

We were new to winning, and didn't quite know how to handle it. Many Sox fans thought that they should be gracious toward Yankee fans thinking the Yankee fans would return the favor when they were back on top. I think most Sox fans have since realized that Yankee fans will always be despicable winners.

[BSN07]

I guess the biggest change in my view of Yankees fans pre 2004 is, if you told me you were a Yankees fan you were an ******* first and I asked questions later. Now, if I meet a Yankee fan it's less hostile lol

 

I still tend to make anyone wearing Yankee apparel at our training's run extra

[Dojji]

Same here, when I finally got to see the last out of Game 4 of the WS, I jumped out of my seat and screamed (even though it was on tape and I had already been celebrating because I had heard the outcome from the next shift coming in after me.) Anyways, I jumped up screamed, and then fell into a strange silence, a weird sort of disbelief and just remember thinking to myself, there really are no words that I could think of that would have been proper for such a unbelievable moment. I also remember having the distinct feeling, that somehow Red Sox fans all around the country were just as bewildered as myself. Almost as if I could picture millions of fans letting out a initial yelp of joy, and then falling deathly silent almost in a shared state of shock

 

I can tell you that a lot of people had that experience. A national celebration followed by a national did-that-really-happen?

[Spitball]

I have too many memories to mention them all. One thing I will never forget is trying to call my dad in Topsfield, Massachusetts, and my son in Portland, Maine, after the last out and the championship had been won. The telephone lines were all tied up, and I could not get a call through to New England. Wow! That really was mass Red Sox love.

[SCM33]

The stolen base.

 

The bloody sock.

 

Jason Varitek attempting to catch Tim Wakefield with the go ahead run on third base.

 

David Ortiz.

 

Curtis Leskanic getting big time outs with the series on the line.

 

Arod slapping Arroyo's glove.

 

The Bellhorn oppo field HR.

 

Derek Lowe in game 7.

 

Kevin Brown and Javier Vazquez.

 

"Whos your daddy?"

[Scottish Red Sox Fan]

Bloody hell. Is it really nearly 10 years already? We're gettin old people!

 

When I sit back now and think about the 2004 WS I realise that I remember shockingly little about it! I watched all 4 games and yet my memory of it is very sketchy. The things I remember most are Derek Lowe pitching a gem in Game 4 and obviously I remember the final out.

 

I'm pretty sure that the reason I don't remember so much about that WS is because of the ALCS that preceded it. That was the most dramatic series of baseball that's ever been played, it has to be. The ALCS really took it out of me, I was emotionally drained by the time it was over. There were just so many facets to it. We were playing the Yankees, we went 0-3 down, the games took forever to play, the extra innings, the dramatic comebacks, THE stolen base, Johnny Damon's grand slam. It blows my mind even now when I think back to everything that happened in that series. Somebody said earlier on in this thread that it was like a Hollywood script being enacted in real life and they are right.

 

Games 4, 5 and 6 were not shown on television over here so I had to rely on the radio to listen to the games. I could only just barely get a reception on Armed Forces Radio. I sat up each night till 5-6am listening to the Red Sox claw their way back into that series, run by run and out by out. It was absolutely gripping. When we scored the winning run in Game 5 I was leaping about my living room at around 6am with my walkman in my ear and punching the air. Anyone looking in the window would have thought I'd lost the plot altogether. lol

 

Thankfully Game 7 was shown on the TV over here so I got to see that one. As long as I live I don't think there will ever be a series of baseball to top that one. So the World Series for me got completely overshadowed. Which is a shame because sweeping that Cardinals team 4-0 was no small achievement. If we had done that any other year then I think it would have been talked about more than it has been.

[Dojji]

Truly. A world series caliber Cardinals team fronted by Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen, and Jim Edmonds, all of whom are or will be Hall of Famers, and the only noise the Cardinals made was when they got after Wake in game 1, who only started a game because the entire rotation was hopelessly bushed after the ALCS. After our bats managed to top theirs in game 1 they were almost completely quiet the rest of the way (scoring 2, 1, and 0 runs in the final 3 games of the series).

 

I think they knew Game 1 against our 6th starter was the only chance they were going to get to reverse the momentum of that ALCS win and with the Sox pulling yet another comeback in that game, it just took the air out of them. They weren't ready for an entire team playing at the peak of its power. .

[Orange Juiced]

Hi there! My name's Sean! I'm 22 years old, and I've got autism. Since next year will be the 10th anniversary of the Red Sox's first World Series win in 86 years since 1918 (aka the end of "The Curse of the Bambino"), what memories do you have from the 2004 World Series, with manager Terry Francona, and players like Mark Bellhorn, Curt Schilling, Pedro Martinez, Johnny Damon, Manny Ramirez, Keith Foulke, Bronson Arroyo, Jason Varitek, Bill Mueller, Nomar Garciaparra, Orlando Cabrera, Doug Mientkiewicz, David Ortiz, Kevin Millar, Dave Roberts, Tim Wakefield, Kevin Millar, Doug Mirabelli, Trot Nixon, Alan Embree, Mike Timlin, and Derek Lowe?

 

Thanks!

Sean

 

Hey Sean, great to have you around! I've been a Red Sox fan since the early-to-mid 70's, so I missed the amazing 1967 season. There are plenty of people here that are much older than me and have endured a lot more Red Sox heartache than I have. But I experienced enough, let me tell you! And when they finally won the World Series in 2004, it was amazing. My wife asked me after it was over, whether it was everything I thought and dreamed it would be. I took a deep breath, sighed, and said, yeah, it really is. Because it was. We Sox fans waited SO long for this...it was incredible. It was a lovable bunch of players (Pedro Martinez is my all-time favorite player) that did something amazing. I'll never, ever forget it.

 

I can't believe it's been 9 years already though!

[Porcupine penis]

Wow, it just hit me that this world series win was 9 years ago, it doesn't feel like that at all. crazy how time flies. The 2004 team will forever be my favorite sports team of all time.