{"id":13887,"date":"2004-10-22T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/22\/top-ten-secrets-to-the-boston-red-sox-comeback\/"},"modified":"2004-10-22T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T17:26:00","slug":"top-ten-secrets-to-the-boston-red-sox-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/22\/top-ten-secrets-to-the-boston-red-sox-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Secrets To The Boston Red Sox Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, on Wednesday the <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2004\/baseball\/mlb\/specials\/postseason\/2004\/10\/21\/bc.bba.alcs.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Red Sox stunned the Yankees, winning Game 7<\/a> of the American League Championship Series in New York after being down 3 games to 0.  Curt Schilling, the Red Sox pitcher who pitched in Game 6 with an injured right ankle, appeared on <i>The Late Show With David Letterman<\/i> to present the Top Ten Secrets To The Boston Red Sox Comeback:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>10. Unlike the first three games, we didn&rsquo;t leave early to beat the traffic.<br \/>\n<br \/>9. We put flu virus in Jeter&rsquo;s gatorade.<br \/>\n<br \/>8. Let&rsquo;s just say Pete Rose made some phone calls for us.<br \/>\n<br \/>7. We asked Pokey Reese to be a little less pokey.<br \/>\n<br \/>6. It&rsquo;s not like we haven&rsquo;t won a big game before&ndash;it&rsquo;s just been 86 years.<br \/>\n<br \/>5. Honestly, I think we were tired of hearing about the Patriots.<br \/>\n<br \/>4. The messages of encouragement Martha sent on prison napkins.<br \/>\n<br \/>3. We pretended the baseball was Letterman&rsquo;s head.<br \/>\n<br \/>2. What&rsquo;d you expect&ndash;we have a guy who looks like Jesus!<br \/>\n<br \/>1. We got Babe Ruth&rsquo;s ghost a hooker and now everything&rsquo;s cool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"byline\">thanks to Ulana and Tanya for the e-mail<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109846261403784802?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, on Wednesday the Red Sox stunned the Yankees, winning Game 7 of the American League Championship Series in New York after being down 3 games to 0. Curt Schilling, the Red Sox pitcher who pitched in Game 6 with an injured right ankle, appeared on The Late Show With David &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/22\/top-ten-secrets-to-the-boston-red-sox-comeback\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top Ten Secrets To The Boston Red Sox Comeback&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}