boston.com - 10/30/2007
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Mike Lowell had his hands full of goodies on the flight home. The prize-winning third baseman escorted both the championship trophy and his World Series MVP award back to Boston on Monday. (Globe Staff Photo / Stan Grossfeld)
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Parade
The Joy of Sox —
The parade begins today at noon.Globe:Jonathan Papelbon is expected to reprise his Irish stepdance to the music of the Dropkick Murphys, who will join him on a flatbed truck in the procession."He promised the people he would do the dance, and he will do the dance," Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday.The Globe also has some pictures from the team's flight home and the return to Fenway.
Absentee Fan
Basegirl —
... Amy: Go to the Globe site. Go directly to the Globe site. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. The flight home photo gallery. NOW. ...
It's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world
Cursed To First - Sox and Pats forever. —
... P.S. This is totally random, and just one of a million tidbits I want
to note here, but I just discovered it so I have to share--here's a
quote on Manny from the Plane Ride Home gallery, which incidentally is another total classic: Manny RamÃrez got a ride from a Massachusetts state trooper on the
tarmac. He tried to open the back door, which is reserved for bad guys.
A trooper moved in quickly. "No Manny, you can't go in the back," said
the trooper, smiling and opening the front passenger door. And look. at his fucking. ...
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The Test of Time —
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Jonathan Papelbon, above, slams the door shut on Colorado and delivers Boston its second World Series title in four years Sunday as the Red Sox sweep the upstart Rockies in four games.
