Magical Moment For Red Sox Fans

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Some nights your just not ready for the emotion to overcome you......some nights, that which used to be right about pro sports before it was a business is thrust upon you with little warning and little choice.

What the Red Sox received tonight wasn't for the team but for the legion of fans spread all over this country who have never seen the team clinch a division. They chose to give back to their fans who 90 minutes after the game played there was finished joined in an on field champagne celebration that rivaled the fall of 2004.

Watching with my youngest who probably unfairly suffers the affliction of happiness or dispair defined by whether the Sawks won or not that day.....saw a gift that left him in tears and not knowing why his head filled with seething misty eyed joy would overcome him so completely.

Melvin Mora, in a 9-9 extra inning game with the Yankees, laid a season winning suicide squeeze down perfectly after glancing up the third base line one pitch before giving the Boston Red Sox the American League East 2007 division crown......somehow what could have been a limp hearted groan of an end to the regular season in one gunslinging gambling moment will be remembered in Boston for all time.

Sharing that with a young boy is about as good as it gets in times like these and for the effort I simply say thank you Melvin. There are still 11 more to be won but none more enjoyable than the game Melvin won for the Sox tonight...