What Curse Mommy?
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The Red Sox have won the World Series for the second time in four years! The last time was in 2004. Before that, well, there was a little bit more of a gap between World Series wins. 86 years to be exact.
Up until 2004, generations of Red Sox fans waited almost nine decades to see what my nine-year-old Red Sox fan has seen twice in her lifetime already! When I share with my daughter that some Red Sox fans lived their whole life without ever seeing the Red Sox win the World Series, she looks at me puzzled. To her, they’re world champions. Again.
What do you mean some people never saw the Red Sox win the World Series?
So I tell her about the infamous Red Sox curse. For those of you who aren’t baseball fans, many believed that the Red Sox were cursed when they sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919. I then quickly add that’s all ancient history! The curse is over. Forever.
Unlike my daughter, my Dad remembers all those fateful Red Sox losses. He knows all too well how long it took for the Red Sox to be victorious. So he’s relishing every moment of this year’s victory, just like he did in 2004.
What will I remember about being a Red Sox fan?
I’ll remember going to Fenway Park each year with my Dad.
I’ll remember the year we started bringing my oldest daughter to Fenway Park with us.
I’ll remember watching an entire game at Fenway in rainy 40 degree weather and loving every minute of it even though they lost!
I’ll remember walking around the warning track of Fenway Park with my Dad while a light mist fell and Louis Armstrong sang “What a Wonderful World.”
I’ll remember my Dad meeting the president of the Red Sox, Larry Lucchino, and when my Dad told Larry he’d been a fan his whole life, Larry responding “That’s a labor of love.”
I’ll remember my Dad and I getting to try on one of the 2004 World Series rings.
I’ll remember waking my daughter so she could see the Red Sox win the World Series again and again.
I’ll remember calling my Dad after midnight to rehash the exciting moments of each game of the American League Championship Series and World Series.
I won’t remember the curse.
My daughter won’t grow up like my Dad and the many other members of the Red Sox nation. My daughter will grow up with the Red Sox being champions. Again and again.
“What curse Mommy?”
Shannon Hutton draws on her experience working full-time, part-time and from home with three kids to blog about the universal challenge of achieving work-life balance. She also uses her Master's in Education and professional experience as a School Counselor to address parenting and school issues in her weekly 
Way to go, Red Sox! And what a sweet post…
Awww! You and your Dad have such a special relationship, and those photos just show how much you love not just the games but being there together. How lucky!
And you look great in all those photos, by the way!
WOW!!!
What great memories
and more to come!!!!
Love DAD
I have very similar memories, but I hope I can teach my daughter what it meant to my Dad and your Dad when they finally won in 2004. I have to say though, I think I can get used to this feeling of winning again and again!
Wow great memories of you and your dad and now for your daughter as well.
I am not a sports fan, don’t care about baseball, but by default, my husband, I have to cheer for the Yankees. My hubby’s dad though for some odd reason, being born and raised in New York state, was a Red Sox fan and sadly he passed away in March 2004 and missed them winning and breaking that curse by only a few months and missed the gloating rights againt hubby. I wish he could have seen it, but I think my father-in-law somwhow had a hand in them winning that year, just to let us all know he was still watching over things.
Congrats on the Boston win! I loved the photos!
It’s been tough for those Denver residents. Rockies lose the series and then my Green Bay Packers won against the Broncos!
Go SOX!
The love of your daughter, the game, the team and your dad all wrapped up into one post. Now that’s beautiful!
I’m not a fan of sports in general but in my heart i have secretly prayed they would win. Great post!!
I’m not a huge sports fan -well, I’m not one at all - but I am a huge Massachusetts fan so GO RED SOX!!
I lived up there for a few years and it is just my favorite place on earth. If family and finance didn’t conspire against us we’d be packing a moving van right now!
Congratulations and great pictures of your dad!
Fabulous memories. Cub fans must be jealous. I’m sure this really gets their, um, goat.
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thanks lots and lots and whole bunches.
I HEART NY.
peace and light,
janelle
What passion! It’s awesome to see the time lapsed photos of your visits. What a tradition you can carry forward with Sweet Angel! Lifetime of memories right there.