21 Oct 2004 | Drew said...

*BAM!*

21 Oct 2004 | allen said...

Isnt wonderful... they've gotten over the major hurdle in fulling lifting that curse!

21 Oct 2004 | David Schontzler said...

They will simply postfix "except for the 2004 Red Sox in the ALCS".

21 Oct 2004 | Mike said...

Weird pb, I just updated my weblog with the same saying.

21 Oct 2004 | Don Schenck said...

We went from the "Curse Of The Bambino" to the Yankees now owning "The Curse Of The Damn Beanos".

21 Oct 2004 | ~bc said...

Boston was up all night, this place is going ballistic. This may be a little strange to people who follow the National League, but to many (Red) Sox fans, beating the Yankees in this fashion is actually more important than the fact that it got them to the World Series. My question is (and I guess as the token guy from Boston I should know, alas) is beating the Yankees in this fashion breaking the curse, or if they lose the Series, does the Curse live on? BTW, rumor has it, the curse didn't exist until (I think the) 70's when a sports writer mentioned "Ruth's words" in a book about the Sox. Of course, I wasn't around then to tell you... but this "made up the curse" story surfaced last year around this time. Either way, it's believed up here more so than religion. Perhaps this will lift the veil of bitterness from Sox fans if they can pull this out. I certainly hope so, because otherwise this is a great team, great players, and for the most part, really great, informed fans. It's a fun place to be a sports fan.

21 Oct 2004 | MH said...

Who cares about the World Series at this point? ;-)

And by the way, it's "Sox," not "Socks."

21 Oct 2004 | monkeyinabox said...

I don't believe the Yankees had much to do with the 1986 series, so if the Sox lose in the World Series, the curse lives on. It probably would help for them to fall apart or have some really bad luck too.

For broadcasters, they will still quote the "Only 1 team in baseball has ever come back". It's still bad odds.

21 Oct 2004 | kageki said...

the curse isn't up until the sox win it all. beating the yankees is great and all... but there's still the ghosts of the 1986 Bullpen and Bill Buckner to exorcise.

21 Oct 2004 | kageki said...

oh - and those flunkies Joe Buck and Tim McCarver will probably just say, "only one time in baseball history has a team rallied from a 3 game deficit to blah blah blah."

21 Oct 2004 | Ryan Schroeder said...

Yup! It means that from now on, whenever a team is down 3-0, someone will mention that the only team to do it was the 2004 Boston Red Sox.

21 Oct 2004 | Don Schenck said...

They'll also say ...

"Slam-A-Lam-A ... Ding Dong!"

21 Oct 2004 | pb said...

And by the way, it's "Sox," not "Socks."

I was just trying to punch up the headline a bit.

22 Oct 2004 | st louis sux said...

GO CARDS!!!

22 Oct 2004 | Mark said...

Go 'Stros!

Up 2 - 1 in the 6th.

22 Oct 2004 | Mark said...

Oh well...

Congratulations "st louis sux" on the Cardinals' win.