Good thing same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachusetts

David Ortiz, where should we honeymoon?

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Today's Times has a feature on something that I've been thinking about since Wednesday night, WHEN THE BOSTON RED SOX WON THE WORLD SERIES. Sorry, I just need to see those words in print a few more times to actually believe it.

But really now: What does Red Sox Nation do now that the wait is over? How weird will it be to spend the winter talking retrospectively about the Sox rather than prospectively about how this coming year might be the year?

Maybe we'll enjoy the moment for a few weeks or months. Then maybe we'll turn into Leonard from Memento, subconsciously blocking the memory of this victory to quixotically pursue another John G.

I still just can't believe that I team I support actually won a championship. This sort of thing has never really happened before. (Ok, there was that Cornell/Harvard unbelievable overtime game in Albany in March 2003, but that was just surreal.) I feel like I should call a friend who's a Yankee fan and ask him how to react, but he wouldn't know this feeling.

It's just been an unforgettable October.