Boston knows how to do championship parades. After 11 titles in the last 17 years, local sports fans have gotten pretty good at the routine\u2026<\/b>
\nBoston knows how to do championship parades.
After 11 titles in the last 17 years, local sports fans have gotten pretty good at the routine of cheering the duck boats down Boylston and Tremont streets. Each celebration, however, has had its own unique characteristics and moments that could seemingly only happen in Boston.
Wednesday\u2019s 2018 Red Sox World Series parade was no exception.
Red Sox manager Alex Cora began the festivities Wednesday morning at a pre-parade Fenway Park reception by reliving the team\u2019s victory against the New York Yankees in the American League Division Series.
And he really rubbed it in the faces of any doubters .
Cora recalled how everyone thought \u201cthe sky was falling\u201d following the team\u2019s Game 2 loss in the ALDS, but then came Game 3 .
\u201cWe scored 16 at Yankee Stadium,\u201d Cora told the crowd at Fenway Park. \u201cSuck on it.\u201d
Dunkin\u2019 offered $1 coffees to all rewards-program members in honor of the championship win \u2014 as if parade-goers needed an excuse to get a caffeine fix from the Canton-based chain.
The Dropkick Murphys may have been playing atop the first boat, but it was another familiar Fenway Park anthem that broke out all along the parade route. Even before they got there, fans serenaded each other with Neil Diamond\u2019s \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d like it was the middle of the eighth inning.
On the MBTA\u2026
On Boylston\u2026
On Tremont\u2026
At Government Center\u2026
And even as the Red Sox passed through.
In addition to countless creative signs, a few construction workers on the corner of Boylston and Tremont streets unveiled a few homemade banners of their own \u2014 including this familiar slogan.
It\u2019s become commonplace for Sox fans to unleash the \u201cYankees Suck\u201d chant even when their New York rivals aren\u2019t present.
David Price made the doubters \u2014 both in the press box and in the stands \u2014 eat their words with his 2018 postseason performance.
At least one Red Sox fan is hilariously owning up to those previous criticisms:
Nothing goes with duck boats like Bean boots. To celebrate, the Maine-based outfitter created a special-edition red leather boot embroidered with the team\u2019s regular season record and #DoDamage hashtag.
They\u2019re not available for public purchase, but the Bean Bootmobile rolled through town anyway.
Jason McKeon, a Haverill resident born two weeks after the Patriots\u2019 2002 Super Bowl, made a name for himself by attending seven of the previous 10 championship parades. In recent years, the 16-year-old has brought a continually updated sign displaying the ratio of years-to-parades he has experienced.
\u201cSign Kid,\u201d as McKeon is otherwise known, was back again Wednesday \u2014 and his sign was updated to reflect it.
David Ortiz watched the 2018 Red Sox, often giddily, from the Fox Sports booth, but the retired slugger, along with former pitcher Pedro Martinez, still took part in the parade .
Fans didn\u2019t seem to mind one bit.
As the \u201cformer head of the clubhouse,\u201d Ortiz said that he felt proud watching this year\u2019s team.
\u201cWatching them perform, watching the spirit that they bring to the field every day, it makes you feel proud of it, because it\u2019s part of something that more [than] likely a lot of them learned from what we used to do here,\u201d he said before the parade.
\u201cWho do you hope to see today?\u201d WCVB reporter Sera Congi asked a young fan along the parade route.
\u201cTom Brady,\u201d the girl responded.
Congi promised to check and then echoed the girl\u2019s wish later Tuesday afternoon.
\u201cWe all would like to see Tom Brady too,\u201d Congi tweeted . \u201cLet\u2019s meet up again on the parade route in Feb.\u201d
Perhaps the consensus pick on social media for \u201c most Boston \u201d thing to happen during Wednesday\u2019s parade was the never-ending onslaught of beer cans thrown toward Red Sox players, whether they were paying attention or not. Errantly tossed cans ultimately resulted in one damaged World Series trophy, one very mad Red Sox manager, one injured fan, and one arrest.
Boston Globe photographer Stan Grossfeld, who was on a duck boat with Mookie Betts, wrote after the parade that a team photographer was hit in the head, the wife of hitting coach Tim Hyers was hit in the stomach, and that he was hit four times. And that doesn\u2019t count all the beers Grossfeld and other players swatted away to save Betts.
As one broadcaster put it: \u201cYou can\u2019t throw beers at the [ potential] MVP of the league.\u201d
Never change, Red Sox fans. But maybe double-check that you have eye contact before throwing beers at people, MVP or not.<\/p>\n

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