RED SOX WIN THE WORLD SERIES!

We are so excited! Last night, we had a role reversal where I was the one clutching my stomach and pacing and yelling at the screen, while Roger (La-di-da, la-di-da, la la) was calm, happy, and filled glee. I was saying: we've left 12 men on base! He was saying: Johnny Damon homered! Yay, Red Sox!

At the end of it all, we high-fived it and hugged and pointed to the screen: You're so money! We loved those guys! All 25 of them - and Terry and Theo and Larry and Tom, and especially John Henry. And Johnny Pesky, too! They all deserved to win.

We now await word, post-victory from our favorite baseball writer (well, second to Peter Gammons - we love that guy, too, a believer), Bill Simmons. AKA ESPN's The Sports Guy. His columns on espn.com have spoken our thoughts.

Here is an excerpt from his column after the Red Sox won Game 7 against New York.

I just watched my beloved Red Sox win the American League pennant. That's only happened twice in my lifetime. I watched them rally back from three games down in a playoff series. That's never happened before, not in the history of baseball. I also just watched the Sox beat the Yankees in a deciding playoff game. Not only has that never happened before, it's a possible sign of the apocalypse.

Now get this ... all three things happened at the same time.

So what happens now? Where do I go from here? Should I throw myself into politics? Backpack across Europe? Take up gourmet cooking? Learn how to fly airplanes? Should I take the bus to Fort Hancock, cross the border and wander the beaches of Zihuatanejo looking for Andy and Red? You tell me. What should I do?

We especially like the Shawshank Redemption reference.

Yay to Keith Foulke - you da man, and Jason Varitek - catcher of all time! To Derek and Curt and Bronson and Wake and Embree and Timlin and Myers and Leskanic and PEDRO! To the offense: to Bellhorn and Orlando and Mueller and Millar and Trot and Youkilis and Manny and DAVID! To the defense: Mientkiewicz, Kapler, Mirabelli, and DAVE ROBERTS!

Fun fact: The St. Louis Factor. The Celtics won their first championship against St. Louis (1957); the Bruins broke a 41-year Stanley Cup drought against St. Louis (1970); and the Patriots won their first Super Bowl against St. Louis (2002). And now the Red Sox have won their first World Series since 1918 against St. Louis (2004). The Cardinals were our Yankees of the World Series: having met with them twice before, 1946 and 1967, and lost both times to them in the seventh game of each.