Remember the ghosts?
“The ghosts,” Derek Jeter famously told Aaron Boone as Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS drifted into extras, “will show up eventually.”
Remember the way history always seemed determined to trample the Red Sox, torture their fans, tease every acre of New England?
“Relax,” Yogi Berra famously told Bernie Williams in 1999, before the ancient rivals played their first-ever postseason series. “We’ve been beating these guys for 80 years.”
Well the ghosts have vanished. All that awful history has evaporated. It is 18 years since the Yankees have beaten the Red Sox in October. Since 2004 it’s Boston 3, Yankees 0. We have officially reached the point that Pedro Martinez’s old chestnut has been reversed.
The Sox are the Yanks’ daddy.
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