Looking back to October '04

[The_Destroyah]

I was looking back on some of the old posts from the 04 ALCS and I can't tell you how warm and fuzzy it makes me feel as i could slowly feel how the Yank's Pompous smirks:harhar: were slowly wiped off their faces as the sox achieved the unachievable.

I just thought I'd get some nostalgia going since it's now the coming up 5th year anniversary of that glorious year.:dance:

[BoSox21]

wow, 5 years already....

[yeszir]

I still maintain that the creation of Talksox ultimately led to that WS win

[The_Destroyah]

I still maintain that the creation of Talksox ultimately led to that WS win

 

Congratulations you are the hero of a nationa ha...

[matt9071]

Yea that was the best october of my life.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

There were Yankee fans here pre-jacko and Gom?

[Gom]

I wasn't. The Diamondback one killed us more than the Red Sox one did. Not even close.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Yeah okay...

[Dipre]

I wasn't. The Diamondback one killed us more than the Red Sox one did. Not even close.

 

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[TheKilo]

I actually agree with him, for the following reasons

 

1. It was the World Series

2. It was the last hurrah for a lot of guys on that "Yankee Dynasty"

3. They had the lead in the 9th inning of Game 7 of said WS

4. It was the first time Yankee fans saw the chink in the armor and experienced a crushing defeat with Mo on the mound

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

But the Diamondback weren't their arch-rivals they loved to taunt, and that series wasn't a 3-0 to 4-3 bedshitting.

 

Its easy for a Yankee fan to say that 2001 was bigger, but I think every sensible person knows the truth.

[TheKilo]

But the Diamondback weren't their arch-rivals they loved to taunt, and that series wasn't a 3-0 to 4-3 bedshitting.

 

Its easy for a Yankee fan to say that 2001 was bigger, but I think every sensible person knows the truth.

 

Am I not sensible then?

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Am I not sensible then?

Do you think you're sensible?

[TheKilo]

With regards to this? Absolutely.

[Mr Crunchy]

Some Yank fans still scream 1918 and tell me that Arod has been their best CF since Willie Randolph.

****s,most Yank fans from this area are wankers who sucked in sports and needed to make up for their physical shortcomings by being the fans of say the Lakers or the Canadiens or the Yankees.

1 thing we do know for sure.

the Dbax series didnt replace the standard international symbol for choking as the 2004 collapse did.

[Cocos Disciples]

Some Yank fans still scream 1918 and tell me that Arod has been their best CF since Willie Randolph.

 

[a700hitter]

I wasn't. The Diamondback one killed us more than the Red Sox one did. Not even close.

Maybe the initial emotional blow of losing to Arizona was worse, because it ended the championship run. The '04 series slowly slipped away in agonizing fashion. By the end, Yankee fans were in despair, but had accepted their fate. In the long run, the '04 loss was much more costly to Yankee fans, because Yankee invincibility with regard to the Red Sox was gone forever. Also, after the crushing emotions immediately following the 2001 loss, Yankee fans never had to see the DiamondBacks or their fans on a regular basis. The Red Sox and their fans are constantly around to remind the Yankee fans that the Red Sox have become the big bad boys that the Yankees used to be.

[BoSox21]

I actually agree with him, for the following reasons

 

1. It was the World Series

2. It was the last hurrah for a lot of guys on that "Yankee Dynasty"

3. They had the lead in the 9th inning of Game 7 of said WS

4. It was the first time Yankee fans saw the chink in the armor and experienced a crushing defeat with Mo on the mound

 

5. It was immediately after 9/11 when NYers could've really used the emotional lift

[Mr Crunchy]

f*** the yankees.

Id slowly carve out my taint with a rusty shrimp fork before i feel sympathetic to that franchise.

Too many scars, too many bad nights, too much acid in my stomach for me to feel a f***ing thing over their current demise so far this century..

I enjoyed watching Luis Gonzales lil ground ball that barely made the outfield more than I enjoyed watching Petey stuff the gerbils metal plated head into the fenway turf and more than watching Tek bitchslap Mr April...

The Tek event and that 9-8 come from behind win made our guys confident,

even down 0-3 they knew they could win and so did the Yankees for that matter.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Was I supposed to grimace at that second line?

[Mr Crunchy]

Imagery is everything

[a700hitter]

Too many scars, too many bad nights, too much acid in my stomach for me to feel a f***ing thing over their current demise so far this century..

I enjoyed watching Luis Gonzales lil ground ball that barely made the outfield ...

I am a NYer and I got an emotional lift from that.

[Mr Crunchy]

Lots of shrinks were put out of business the same night when Kevin Brown and Javier Vasquez got shanghai'd in game 7 by the most unlikely hero of them all..Derek Lowe. the same guy who had a chance to give us a shot at the division in NY the weekend the season ended but got beat so bad he was gone in less than 2ip if i recall and he wasnt in the rotation for the Angels series due to his ineptness.

Lots of heroes, lots of luck and a lot of emotional dirt erased from memory.

[BoSox21]

the one single moment that always comes to my mind when I think about that series was Damon's Game 7 grand slam. That was the moment I exhaled and knew the series was in hand

[Mr Crunchy]

And that was in the 2nd inning of game 7 with 20,000 sox fans in attendance.

Something happened after 03, every sox yanks affair on a summer weekend was almost like a home game. I was there in April 04 when Arroyo beat Kevin Brown in consecutive starts,1 of them was an extra inning affair that they Yanks tied late and we won in like 13? if im not mistaken.

The Yanks home field advantage was erased in the 03 pennant and we stole the 04 series then dismantled st louis easily.

In any case it was mentally refreshing to see the sox raise that banner in 04, it changed a lot of things that i held deep in my heart and Im so greatful dad saw the 2 titles and only wished some of my elders who brought me up with these guys in my blood lived long enuff to see what i did....

We took things personally and suffered like starving dogs for so many years you wondered if it would ever happen.

[Gom]

Funny.

 

You're debating how I felt. It's amazing that some of you guys think you know how I feel better than I do. Kilo and Bosox21 were pretty much dead on:

 

Kilo:

1. It was the World Series

Correct.

 

2. It was the last hurrah for a lot of guys on that "Yankee Dynasty"

Correct. Knowing that O'Neil was gone, and realizing that we were seeing the end of a dynasty hurts. You guys wouldn't know.

 

3. They had the lead in the 9th inning of Game 7 of said WS

Yes. After being outplayed, and two miraculous comebacks in games 4 & 5...coming so close.

 

4. It was the first time Yankee fans saw the chink in the armor and experienced a crushing defeat with Mo on the mound

Not true. 1997 against the Guardians...but it did hurt.

 

5. It was immediately after 9/11 when NYers could've really used the emotional lift

This is one of the biggest factors. We NYers are superior to the rest of the country. That's why you all hate us so much. Ok, I'm just kidding. But New York is America. People think of America, they think of the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, and the Twin Towers. We had one of our icons taken away, our innocence stripped away. All the pain of 9/11 came back to me when I saw the tattered flag at the WS. Winning...would have been storybook. It would have meant so much to the city, a healing. It was not meant to be, and things are sometimes as such.

 

The Red Sox didn't hurt. Not at all. It was disgusting...like watching a team lose a 9 run lead like you did the other night. It wasn't heart-wrenching like you guys think. Heart-wrenching is when you lose a close game in the 9th. Disgusted is the feeling when you choke.

 

Most fans I know were tempered by Boone in 2003. Turnabout is fair play, and we accepted it. I still contend that you Red Sox fans felt something similar to us in 2001 when you lost in 2003. After 2001...2004 was easy for us.

[TheKilo]

1986 was worse than 2003, in that same vein

[Spudboy]

Excellent post Gom.

[Mr Crunchy]

1986 was worse than 2003' date=' in that same vein[/quote']

 

fukin ay right it was, why go there on this thread Mr Buzz kill

[TheKilo]

Just saying, educating the youth of America