World Champions Cartoon

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1. Hahahaha

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2. The Improbable Dream: Red Sox dispatch Cardinals in Game 6 to claim eighth World Series

By Alex Speier

The Improbable Dream became reality on Wednesday night at 11:22 p.m., when the 2013 Red Sox became the unlikeliest title winners in franchise history when closer Koji Uehara struck out Matt Carpenter to close out a 6-1 victory over the Cardinals, thus concluding a six-game World Series triumph.

As if to dispel the doubts of those who might have been skeptical of such a plot line, the Red Sox claimed their World Series-clinching victory on home soil, the first title won at Fenway Park since the 1918 edition, led by George Herman Ruth, accomplished the feat at a time when the nation was more preoccupied with World War I than the baseball happenings in Boston.

Now, as in 1918, the Red Sox can claim that their championship — won against a Cardinals franchise that defeated them in seven-game World Series in 1946 and 1967 — cements their place as the most successful franchise of an extended era. That 1918 team won the franchise’s fourth title in seven seasons. This crown marks the third for the Sox in the last 10 seasons; since 2001, no other franchise has won more than two titles.

Yet this championship was drastically different from the first two that the Sox enjoyed this century. In 2004, the Red Sox had been constructed quite clearly to win a title after coming within five outs of advancing to the World Series in 2003. In 2007, the team responded to an 86-win season with an effort to construct, in the words of CEO Larry Lucchino, a “juggernaut.”

Not so in 2013 — or, at least, it didn’t appear that way.

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3. Another unforgettable Sox title

After the final out Wednesday night, the celebration was on: the Red Sox were World Series champions.



Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Koji Uehara celebrates after getting St. Louis Cardinals' Matt Carpenter to strike out and end Game 6 of baseball's World Series Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Boston. The Red Sox won 6-1 to win the series. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) ORG XMIT: WS179



Fans walk outside of Fenway Park before Game 6. Several area residents were able to score tickets to the game and reported that even four hours earlier, the pulse around Fenway Park was buzzing with excitement for the first World Series Game 6 sat Fenway Park since 1975 and only fourth in the park’s history. Charlie Riedel/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Koji Uehara and catcher David Ross celebrate after getting St. Louis Cardinals' Matt Carpenter to strike out and end Game 6 of baseball's World Series Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Boston. The Red Sox won 6-1 to win the series. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) ORG XMIT: WS


By Jon Couture
At Fenway Park
October 31, 2013 1:06 AM


BOSTON — That is what we do this for. Why we stay up late. Why we sweat and swear and spend and suffer and spend some more.

Because there's the possibility of that. The promise of that.

The pure, chest-rattling, forget-your-troubles joy of that moment. When Koji Uehara's final splitter settled in David Ross' mitt behind Matt Carpenter's flailing bat, and the brain registered what it meant, nothing else mattered.

Shane Victorino knew. A free agent this winter, his decision boiled down to two teams: Cleveland, offering four years and $44 million, or Boston, offering three years and $39M. The money was elsewhere. The security was elsewhere.

His concerns, ultimately, were elsewhere too.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131031/SPORTS/310310345

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4. Looking back...

It's clear the Sox were going to win, with the benefit of hindsight...they just kept doing what they needed to do!!!

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5. lmao!

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6. An American team are World Champions...

I think we can all take pride in the fact that an American team are World Champions again.

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7. Celebration At A Bar Near Fenway