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Watching on TV the jets hadn't even finished flying over in the intro to Game 1 when I felt my heart stop for the first time. The Red Sox are in the World Series! Fifteen years ago I sat in the bleachers of the Red Sox spring training facility in Winter Haven, Florida with Johnny Pesky (of the infamous Pesky pole) admiring 24-year-old Ellis Burks' swing (now Ellis Burks is "creaking" around the bases, how time flies) as he joked about the fact that he was born in 1919, the year after the Red Sox last one the World Series and that he wanted to see them win in his lifetime. Waiting for the Red Sox to win the World Series is measured in lifetimes. That's why I am going to Boston to be part of the magic. I visited Air Canada and eBay and will be sitting in the Fenway Park bleachers for Game 6 watching Curt Schilling throw bullets while lucky Johnny will be sitting in the box seats behind home plate instead of in the dugout. We haven't seen the last of the curse but I read an interview with Pesky where he says he's going to run around the infield naked if the Red Sox win the World Series. He still looks pretty fit for an 85-year-old fungo-bat hitting talisman. I think I'd like to see that.

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