not like 2004

[ron_newman]

It was so quiet in Davis Square after the Sox won Game 7 tonight. Lots of blue wooden horses sitting around "just in case", a bunch of police cars, but hardly any revelers. Nothing like this scene in 2004.

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[spatch]

There was one guy in the square playing "Tessie" on his harmonica.

I liked that.

[ron_newman]

Spatch, you were out there and I didn't see you? damn.

[spatch]

I am sneaky like ninja.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Well, that scene was after the World Series win, not the playoffs :-)

[ron_newman]

Yeah, but I was also in Davis after the 2004 ALCS win against the Yankees, and it was the same scene.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

that was *the yankees* and after multiple 6 hour games, we really needed to party...

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I thought, too.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

It was not at all quiet where I was. :)

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there was a fair amount of noise on my street :)

[ifotismeni]

same here! firecrackers, shouting, horns... aiya, i didn't get to sleep until way late @_@

[theriotgrl.livejournal.com]

Well, that playoff game WAS against the Yankees. To the best of my knowledge, the Sox/Indians rivalry isn't quite as cutthroat :) Although, I'll agree, I could barely hear anyone screaming from my place on Highland! I rushed Fenway with half the city in '04 since I was living downtown back then, I'm sure it was a mob scene there...

[c-m-i.livejournal.com]

We were too scared of being chased out of the Square for smoking.

[ruxxell.livejournal.com]

yeah because nobody wants to get snelgroved.

[ifotismeni]

i heard a little bit of noise from chester street but it was pretty scattered.
i wasn't here for 2004 -- i was at umass amherst -- so i was thinking it'd be something similar here (overturned cars, flaming trash cans, etc)

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

It's a little different in Amherst. My stepmother taught there in the '80s and remembers sports games triggered a race riot.

[ceo]

I was there for that one, after the Sox lost the 1986 World series to the Mets. Didn't see the actual riot, which was at the other end of campus, and according to friends who witnessed it, was Sox fans vs. Mets fans and had nothing to do with race.

[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

oh, I miss the Southwest UMass riots... There weren't any my freshman year, but then the Pats won the superbowl, and it triggered probably a half dozen in the next few years of the Red Sox both winning and losing various things. There was the one that migrated to Northeast when the police (rather foolishly) herded everyone out the same entrance/exit to Southwest. Then there was the worst I ever saw - not even on-campus, and not at all sports-related: the Hobart Hoedown riot of 2003. Oh, and you can't forget the mass destruction of Butterfield in response to the tightening of various dorm rules. Ah, those were the days.

Actually, come to think of it, I probably prefer that my tax dollars don't go to controlling and fixing the messes of UMass riots...

[ifotismeni]

hahah, i heard you guys from my house!

[derekp.livejournal.com]

I had a high school football coach who used to say to us, "Act like you've been here before".

In 2004, vanquishing the Yankees was a fete of monumental significance. Winning the ALCS is nice, but there's work to do.

We've been here before.