It's been such a long time...

To the one or two readers on the entire planet who even know about this blog, let alone read it:

We're back on the air, kind of. Work caught up with us. The zaniness of the postseason distracted us, diverting our attention to TV screens and Web sites for updates and preventing us from properly cataloguing the goings-on right here on this site.

Then, our beloved Boston Red Sox won the World Series! Click on the link in the last sentence for a great article by ESPN's Gene Wojcie-something about Red Sox Nation and the team's 180-degree attitude/perspective change since 2004.

ESPN has devoted an entire cottage industry, of course, to chronicling the Sox's charge through the 2007 postseason. You can find oodles of tidbits, trivia, boasts, highlights, projections, and stats here.

There is a whole lot that I could say about the Boston Red Sox right now, but in the interest of time and to prevent repetition that you've undoubtedly heard everywhere else, I'll leave you with just a few thoughts:

1. 2007 feels much different than 2004. While the '07 team was much better overall, the '04 squad obviously had to battle the franchise's ugly history, region-wide World Series draught-induced psychosis, and a Yankees lineup that in games 1-3 simply beat them seven ways to Sunday. I was thrilled and fortunate to see the Sox win a World Series once in my lifetime, and now that they've done it twice, it seems all the more enjoyable.

2. What a performance by Jon Lester in Game 4 of the World Series. He was battling cancer one year ago at this time. One year later, he was on the hill hurling shutout ball for more than 5 innings in Game 4 of the World Series.

3. Re-sign Mike Lowell! How could the Sox let the World Series MVP leave? I imagine the Yankees are going to go after Lowell, who came up through the minor leagues with the team, very hard: possibly upping in years, and definitely in dollars, whatever the Sox offer him. I think Lowell, who turns 34 in 3 months, will look for a 4-, 5-, or perhaps a 5-year with an option for a 6th year deal, to finish out his career.

4. Time for more updates and links to other great columns covering all the goings-on in the postseason.