Letter to Santa

Dear Santa: Christmas came early this year when the Red Sox won the World Series in October. It was a perfect ending to an unbelievable story that began in April with the Boston Marathon bombings. What a wonderful outcome for a city that needed a team to cheer for! And it was all the more a miracle as the baseball experts had picked the Beantown bearded brothers to finish near last in their division. Not everything in sports is stats & sabermetrics. I remember a speech by Mike Eruzione, captain of the Miracle on Ice US Olympic hockey team, saying that no one can measure your heart, no one can measure your work ethic. And the 2013 Red Sox proved everyone wrong with their heart & effort leading to many exciting wins in their last at-bat. Sometimes there are forces at work that are bigger than the sport. This was one of those times. We won in 2004 to break the 86-year curse for past generations. We won in 2007 for the new generation of Red Sox fans. And we won in 2013 for a city & a country that did not give in to terror. As Big Papi so aptly said, this is our bleeping city & no one takes away our freedom. Thanks, Santa, for bringing us the gift of a such a meaningful championship. I will remember 2013 for a long, long time.