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America needs this team to win – a team that has led the way in diversity, that has embraced every cultural background with the support of one of the most diverse fan-bases in sports.

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The right kind of love is one of the few things that this world can never have enough of. It’s the kind that saves and transforms.

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Little by little, the fans in this city have won me over. Because of their pure joy. And their love for this team that they’ve followed since childhood. And their complete confidence and appreciation for every player, during the good seasons and during the bad ones.

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Alice is pretty hard to impress. On Tuesday night, she walked out of a ritzy party at Studio 54 (a big disco) because all the people there were so pompous in their hip way.

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There’s a reason the most famous Mets fans are comedians – Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Schumer, Ben Stiller, Ray Romano, Kevin James, Chris Rock, and Jon Stewart just to name a few. To watch this team, particularly in the past decade, you need to be able to find humor in misery.

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1. I enjoy watching Sunday Night Football rather than Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

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It faded, slowly. In June I drank lemonade and sat on the Common and things almost felt familiar again. I still thought about the bloodstains on Boylston, but it wasn’t all I thought about. The Red Sox started winning. It was possible to hope again.

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The Giants won the World Series last night. The enterprising people of San Francisco quickly took the opportunity to riot. Riot police came, bottles were thrown, fires were started. Fights were documented inside fast food chains. Some participants and onlookers used hashtags #SFRiot and #SFRiots to update Twitter on their exploits, while others checked in to the riots on Foursquare. Videos after the jump.