How's 2008 so far?

Perfect Patriots and Champion Celtics to go with your Resplendent Red Sox, hmm? ;)
I'd like that too!
Add a Best-of-the-Best Bruins squad to that, and I'll be on cloud nine!

- Luminous Luciano to a fellow Boston fan, January 29th, 2008

Well, the fact is that, even if it all did happen like that - it wouldn't change the sorry state the whole blamed world's in right now, one iota - not even in the city of Boston itself!

Sure there'd be a short-lived moment of sheer euphoria sweeping throughout all of New England, verily...

But then WHAT?

Like Manny Ramirez said, regarding the prospect of the Red Sox NOT achieving expectations and falling in the ALCS before the lowly, overachieving (for a while anyway - basically games 2 through 4 of the aforementioned 2007 ALCS!) Cleveland Indians... "It's not the end of the world!"
Indeed.

Some reporters of old used to say, jokingly, that the end of the world would be when both the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs would reach the World Series. It would be tied 3-3 and then something would surely happen during game 7 so that both teams keep their dubious record of "never winning the big one" in modern times INTACT.
Alas for these (mostly Boston-native) ace reporters, that cannot be any longer. The Red Sox have won it - twice now in four years. Mirroring the Patriots' success of winning their own "big one" 3 times in 5 years - and going for 4 in 7 momentarily...! Heck, even the notorious Black Sox/White Sox of Chicago won the big one for the first time in several decades! The Cubs are alone, almost, now in this futile quest (not "as a futility case" no - FUTILE QUEST, yes!)

The end of the world should be announced by something as trivial as a sports event, anyhow...

But I am digressing...!

Aye - that "being on cloud nine" bit is only a figure of speech, at best!
Sure, if all four Boston teams win it all consecutively (and it can happen - ANYTHING can happen in the wondrous and often unjust world of sports!) I'd be happy... I would have a drink in honor of each championship, sure... But that is pretty much it!

It's not like it would change the world - or just *my* world either!
It wouldn't mean squat for 3/4 of the globe that suffers on a daily basis and for whom life is a struggle and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are four very real afflictions...
No, it wouldn't be the end of the world.
Nor would it be an improvement of it.
(Well, maybe a little - for it would be championships going to the good guys instead of nasty glory-hounds that play for either New York, Los Angeles or (ugh) Montreal! But that is another story...)