T-minus 24 Hours and Counting
This DVD is gonna rock.
If my wife is hoping I'll put off buying this so she can get it for me for Christmas, she is sorely mistaken. Sadly, the DVD will apparently live up to its title, and mainly feature the World Series games, cutting short the highlights from the ALCS, which as Red Sox Nation knows, WAS the World Series.
Well, maybe I'll only buy three copies then.
Native fan Denis Leary is a smart choice as the 90-minute disc's narrator, lending the proceedings a tone that perfectly captures Red Sox Nation's perennially disappointed crankiness as well as its fiery keep-the-faith-and-damn-the-Yankees passion. (The other prominent voice, naturally, is guaranteed future analyst Kevin Millar.) When Leary says in voice-over, ''Tom [Gordon], meet Big Papi" before David Ortiz's clutch homer off the Yankee reliever, you can almost picture the comedian flicking a cigarette at the mound.
If my wife is hoping I'll put off buying this so she can get it for me for Christmas, she is sorely mistaken. Sadly, the DVD will apparently live up to its title, and mainly feature the World Series games, cutting short the highlights from the ALCS, which as Red Sox Nation knows, WAS the World Series.
It's a limitation of the format that for all the local emphasis placed on beating New York -- that might as well have been the World Series -- the DVD packs its recap of those games into an opening half-hour covering everything from regular season action to the Nomar trade. We see as much of the Cardinals here, practically, as we did in real time during the sweep.
Well, maybe I'll only buy three copies then.
