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Delcarmen drums through the streets of Boston

Manny Delcarmen, a member of the Red Sox drumming circle, works on the railing of a duck boat.


Journal Photo / Bill Murphy

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Scenes from the parade: Papelbon mugs; Schilling exults

Red Sox heroes Jonathan Papelbon, top, and Curt Schilling celebrate from the Duck Boats.
Journal photos Bill Murphy

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Along the parade route: 'Manny! Manny! Manny!'

BOSTON, Mass. -- A confetti hailstorm, the pounding guitars of the Dropkick Murphys, the erupting cheers for David Ortiz and the chants of "Manny! Manny! Manny!" are flowing fast through Boyleston Street this afternoon.

College students are near people taking time off from office jobs, who are next to construction workers holding up signs -- people from different status, backgrounds, incomes, but all united for the Red Sox victory parade. It will make its way to Boston Common and then City Hall.

People watch the action from atop the Atlantic Fish Company, where the fresh catch of Chilean sea bass lists for $34 -- for one person. And it's a day when Lord & Taylor, the staid clothing store, accomodates the Irish punk sounds of the passing Dropkick Murphys.

At one point, the parade appears as Manny Ramirez plays to admirers from the Duck boat on which he and Ortiz are riding.

Look: there are members of the "Impossible Dream" Red Sox of 1967 wound past the crowd.

There's former Sox pitcher Luis Tiant waving to the crowd.

Current manager Terry Francona draws cheers and there's a big outburst of support for Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youklis.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney, with reports from Journal staff writer Scott MacKay

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Galleries: More Red Sox Nation

Journal photo / Bill Murphy
Nevermind the weather, Bostonians are hot for the Sox, who will march through town in about an hour.

Wish you could be in Boston to see the Red Sox' World Series victory parade?

We've got the next-best thing: live, streaming video of the noontime rally that will start at Fenway Park and will travel through Back Bay to the Commons and end at City Hall Plaza.

Our media partner, WPRI-TV in Providence, is providing the live feed via Fox. The link will be posted on our homepage closer to the start of the rally.

The “rolling rally” on World War II-era amphibious duck boats will take the same route as the 2004 championship parade, except they won’t go into the Charles River, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said.

Menino said pitcher Jonathan Papelbon will dance, and the Dropkick Murphys also will play along the parade route.

“He has to do a dance,” Menino said. “He promised the people he would do a dance.”

The Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies Sunday night with a 4-3 win in Denver.

And for more photos and Red Sox excitement, click below to see all the best photo galleries of the World Series and its aftermath:

The World Series: Red Sox homecoming

The World Series: The post-championship celebration

The World Series: The pitchers

The World Series: The fans

The World Series: Baserunning

The World Series: Game 4: Red Sox 4, Rockies 3

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Kids today just don't understand

The Red Sox and Patriots are generating a region of sunny optimists so different from their parents.

For the second time in four years, the Red Sox won the World Series Sunday night, led by 23-year-old pitcher Jon Lester, who beat cancer in the offseason. And the Patriots, winners of three Super Bowls in the past six years, are flying over speed bumps like the Washington Redskins as they blaze along the fast lane toward another trip to the Super Bowl.

It's so different for sports fans coming of age today. These 10- and 12-year-old kids expect the Red Sox and Patriots to win. We expected them to lose.

We came of age when our teams were laughingstocks at worst, runnersup at best. Every now and then we'd get the whiff of a championship. We'd buy the shirts, and buy into the hope, then the Pats would get pummeled before a national Super Bowl audience, 46-10, or the ball would trickle through Bill Buckner's legs.

And, unfortunately, we could see all the ugly details since the games didn't start in the middle of the night and end in the early morning as they do now.

It left us cursing, believing in curses, and, I'm afraid, losing dimmed our view of life in general.

But now we can thank the Sox and Patriots for imbuing our children with a Norman Vincent Peale power-of-positive-thinking view of life. You play. You win. Life is simple and sunny.

Kids growing up in New England today won't wait for balls to bounce through legs. Curses? Leave them to their pathetic uncles who still insist on babbling about '78 and '86.

They won't fret about blizzards or hurricanes. And if it does rain, they will step dance like Jonathan Papelbon until the skies clear.

As they grow into adults, these New Englanders will laugh at those mysterious economic indicators that help move the Dow.

"Social Security is insolvent," they will be told.

"That's OK. My 401k is kicking butt," they will say.

"Are you worried about the troubles in the Mideast?," they will be asked.

"No, we have faith that President Jenna Bush will get us out of the war."

Yes, even we conditioned pessimists are optimistic today that our sons and daughters will live in a world full of possibilities, a place where a kid can battle cancer and win the World Series.

-- Jack Perry

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Carcieri seeks Ocean State Sox celebration

PROVIDENCE -- Governor Carcieri is hoping that Rhode Island will once again be able to join in the celebration of a Red Sox championship.

The governor says his office will be in contact with the team over holding a rally similar to the one in 2004, when then-Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo brought the World Series trophy to the State House in Providence.

Carcieri points out that Rhode Islanders make up a big part of Red Sox nation.

The World Series champions are being honored today with a Duck Boat parade in Boston.

-- The Associated Press

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