Red Sox Blasted, 8-1

The chilly winds blowing off the Charles did not cool the pennant fever of long-suffering Boston Red Sox fans on campus, as the local heroes last night played their first post-season baseball game in 11 years.

Many Harvard students were among the capacity crowd which last night filled Fenway Park, and countless other undergrads not lucky or well-connected enough to get tickets to the game gathered together to watch it on television.

John Jacobson '90 and Jeffery Kuo '90, both of Weld Hall, were among the lucky few who had tickets to the big game. They went to Fenway Sunday evening and waited overnight to purchase their bleacher seats.

"It was an event. It was a happening. It was unbelieveable." said Jacobson. "The Sox haven't won the series since 1918 and for my whole life I've been waiting for this year."

Frank Morelli '88 of Kirkland House was one ofthe fortunate ones able to attend the game. Hedescribed himself as a "big-time Sox fan", butadmitted that not all of his friends share hisallegiance.

"A lot of my roomates are rooting against theSox because I'm rooting for them," he said. Healso thinks Wade Boggs is better than DonMattingly.

Many of his friends at Kirkland were tuned intothe game, and it wasn't difficult to findenthusiastic fans. "I'm psyched" said TheodoreKane '87.

Big-screen t.v.'s lured many students to suchcentral viewing locations as Mather House and theFreshmen Union with the promise of near lifesizerepresentations of Wally Joyner and Roger Clemens,among others.

"We suffered long and hard with these guys,"said Michael Sullivan '89 of Mather. He predictsthe Sox will reach the Series and thinks thatthat's when the excitement will really begin."Look out Mets," he warns fans and members of thestrong New York squad favored by most to win theNational League championship.

There are, of course, many Mets fans here inthe heart of Bosox country. One of them, RichelleGeorge '89 of Leverett House doesn't think Soxfans should get their hopes up too high. "It'sgood that [the Red Sox] are in the playoffs, but Ireally don't think they should win [the WorldSeries]," she said. "Let them beat California, butin the long run I believe the Mets should win.