Remember This Day
| Not many hours from now it will mark the true 1 year anniversary of the 2004 World Series Championship crowning of the Boston Red Sox. For those interested in reliving that sentimental piece of Sox Nation history, you can find a nice slide show over at Boston.com. Or, hell, buy any and all of the DVD of the 2004 World Series Championship. |
David Ortiz was interviewed the other night and had the following to say about the shortcoming this year compared to 2003 and the glorious championship season of 2004:
‘’Tell you the truth,” he said, ‘’in 2003, when we almost got to the World Series, it was tough. That year it hurt more than this year, not because we won the World Series the year before, but because we had a better team in 2003. At the very beginning of [this] season you could see our team doesn’t have the consistency that we need to win the World Series.
‘’Last year we struggled in the playoffs but we bounced back. We had the team. But this year it was up and down. We knew that the way we played we were a little surprised being in the playoffs. After that, come the playoffs, we played the team that played the best all year round.”
Ortiz worried all season about the team’s pitching, and come the end of the year, the club’s shortcoming, he said, ‘’was pretty much that.”