Boston winning anything sports-related is cause for celebration for the deeply weird residents of Boston itself and the even weirder people outside the city who took the coward’s route by hitching their wagon to a perennially successful sporting franchise.
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The Red Sox, at one point the long-suffering black sheep of Boston, won the 2018 Major League Baseball World Series title earlier today, rolling the Los Angeles Dodgers 4 games to 1, and securing their fourth title in the past fourteen years in the process.
Despite this normalisation of victory, in-line with the other major Boston sporting franchises’ piss-boring habit of monotonous triumph, people in Boston are nonetheless marking the occasion by going out of their god-given minds, in what’s nowadays a bi-annual tradition for the city.
The Red Sox closed out the World Series on foreign soil, securing the series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, leaving fans back home in Boston to flock to bars and go batshit insane after the final out was secured.
We cannot overstate this either. They lost they got dang minds.
The Red Sox just won the World Series. Current sitch in a Boston bar near Fenway #WorldSeries2018 #BostonVsDodgers pic.twitter.com/nF76c9EbMO
— Michael Scanlan (@MScanlan7) October 29, 2018
We did it #Boston
Get those Duck Boats ready!!!#WorldSeries #RedSox
I love that dirty water! pic.twitter.com/l5WL6NEkxy— BostonAttitude (@BostonAttitude) October 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/NickGemelli/status/1056748309602336769
Shout out to this one absolute weapon seated bar-side at a pub being filmed for the game’s broadcast, who maximised his TV seconds with ruthless efficiency.
The guy in red knows how to celebrate a Boston World Series championship. #redsox #redsoxchamps pic.twitter.com/3OQ1lHtbfc
— Dan Mathers (@danmathersfit) October 29, 2018
The celebrations aren’t being confined to the inside of licensed establishments either. Giant, heaving crowds are gathering to celebrate the World Series win in inner-Boston streets, with some converging on the historic Fenway Park and its surrounds…
World Series celebrations out in Fenway! #WorldSeries #redsox pic.twitter.com/rmVpIbVBne
— Raising the Barstool (@RTBarstool) October 29, 2018
Crowds pouring out on Lansdowne Street #WCVB #RedSox #WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/jY8s17CZLM
— Matt Reed (@MattReedNews) October 29, 2018
…and others deciding that literally any street at all is good enough.
I’m never gonna sleep tonight but I’m okay with it. #RedSox #WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/bgdGFyQ79W
— Shelley #BlackLivesMatter (@shelley1005) October 29, 2018
Now everyone in the bar, is outside. Red Sox supporters are going wild. pic.twitter.com/dakmVgLlmh
— Michael Scanlan (@MScanlan7) October 29, 2018
Fans on the move up Comm Ave #RedSox @universalhub pic.twitter.com/9dmnix46d2
— Paula Tennyson (@PaulaTennyson) October 29, 2018
The streets of Boston are ALIVE! Here’s a glimpse of what we’re seeing at Mass & Comm Ave #Boston25 #RedSoxNation #RedSox pic.twitter.com/yqvZHmqXRL
— Drew Karedes (@DrewKaredes) October 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/mikepconnors/status/1056758867168817154
The situation at the corner of Brookline Ave and Boylston St. #RedSox pic.twitter.com/KVUbgg0CGp
— Jennifer Eagan (@Jennifer_Eagan) October 29, 2018
And, naturally, it wouldn’t be a Red Sox championship win without hoards of people singing the one part of Sweet Caroline that they know repeatedly, loudly, and in sort-of unison.
The crowd breaks out singing Sweet Caroline on the #BostonCommon after the #RedSox win the World Series. pic.twitter.com/HXZzEzmeZ1
— Chris Van Buskirk (@byChrisVan) October 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/Starting9/status/1056757815178657792
Sox fans are singing Sweet Caroline and losing their minds on the reserve level at Dodger Stadium pic.twitter.com/TR5LYtMV7s
— Greg Beacham (@gregbeacham) October 29, 2018
Large crowds in Southwest sing Sweet Caroline after the #RedSox win the #WorldSeries @MDCollegian pic.twitter.com/WJMbVGUICy
— Hayley Johnson (@_hayley_johnson) October 29, 2018
Ahh well. Good for Boston and no one else.
