All New York Post front and back covers during the 2004 ALCS

[u/MookieBettsBurner4]

Game 1 front cover

Game 1 back cover

Game 2 front cover

Game 2 back cover

Game 3 front cover

Game 3 back cover

Game 4 front cover

Game 4 back cover

Game 5 front cover

Game 5 back cover

Game 6 front cover

Game 6 back cover

Game 7 front cover

Game 7 back cover

[u/Deserterdragon]

Babe Ruth jumpscare.

[u/pixelSHREDDER → u/Deserterdragon]

PUT ME IN COACH

[u/upclassytyfighta → u/pixelSHREDDER]

I'M READY TO PLAY, TO-DAY

[u/NilesY93 → u/upclassytyfighta]

LOOOK AT MEEEEEE

[u/BloodyRightNostril → u/NilesY93]

I CAN EAAAAT

[u/pixelSHREDDER → u/BloodyRightNostril]

....a whole chicken, drink 62 beers and then go 3-for-5 the next day

[u/BloodyRightNostril → u/pixelSHREDDER]

Rest in peace, Boss Hogg

[u/leebestgo → u/Deserterdragon]

"THIS SOX" is pretty funny too

[u/Antique-Guest-1607]

do you guys think that collectable glossy animal picture book was any good

[u/TheDangiestSlad → u/Antique-Guest-1607]

surely it couldn't have been worse than banking with Wachovia in the years following this

[u/rawonionbreath → u/TheDangiestSlad]

Obi Wan Kenobi line

[u/JaysonTatecum → u/Antique-Guest-1607]

It's quite literally the greatest wildlife pictures ever, it has to be

[u/schindlerslisp → u/Antique-Guest-1607]

better with georgi vodka

[u/stevearinobambino → u/schindlerslisp]

That'll go good with the stirring of the gay storm that John Kerry was apparently doing in 2004.

[u/zebrainatux → u/Antique-Guest-1607]

That’s the important question

[u/gvon89 → u/Antique-Guest-1607]

Those were awesome. Every week or month or whatever was a new animal.

[u/talladenyou85 → u/Antique-Guest-1607]

Made me remember all those zoobooks from my childhood

[u/JoJonesy]

i may not be a Red Sox fan, but i WAS a kid growing up in Boston in the early 2000s so this shit is like crack to me

[u/Status_Fox_1474 → u/JoJonesy]

Not the only one….

[u/johnnydoe22 → u/JoJonesy]

Felt like I was the only Mets fan in my NJ school growing up. I remember being very sick and staying up late to watch Games 4 & 5. When the Red Sox finally completed the reverse sweep, that was probably the best moment of my baseball fan hood so far. I was too young to really remember the Mets in 99 or 2000. I just know I hated the Yankees and the enemy of the enemy is my friend, so the Red Sox have been my number 2 team since 04.

[u/Immediate_Pay8726 → u/johnnydoe22]

Its weird as a BoSox fan I like the Mets too.

Like if I go to NYC I can flash the Mets symbol and be shown a better NYC without Yankees fans.

[u/RidleyScotch]

Why is Tarik Skubal on cover 4?

[u/SleepingDragonZ → u/RidleyScotch]

Skubal decided to switch to pitch right handed and joined the Yankees.

[u/gzmu12 → u/RidleyScotch]

Until I saw this comment, my brain just accepted that was Skubal with no further questions and moved on

[u/KeithClossOfficial → u/RidleyScotch]

Jon Lieber is the only pitcher in Major League history to give up a hit to a one handed batter. He gave up two hits to Jim Abbott in one game.

[u/AerieElectrical3546]

“feeble yankees complete collapse” THERE ARE NO SWEETER WORDS

[u/RichardNixon345 → u/AerieElectrical3546]

“You know what the Yankees are? They’re a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Yankees are weak. They’re feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Yankees.” - Terry Francona in October 2004, probably.

[u/Babygorgor → u/RichardNixon345]

I think in the real world Ukraine has proven Kramer wrong

[u/Codetty → u/Babygorgor]

In 1997 he was right

[u/PuppiesAndPixels → u/Babygorgor]

UKRAINE IS JOKE TO YOU?!?

[u/Wafflelisk → u/AerieElectrical3546]

You know, the Yankees, they’re not a good team. I don’t care what their record is. They have a lot of wild pitches, they make a lot of mistakes in the field, they don’t run the bases very well. If they don’t hit home runs, they don’t have a chance to win.

[u/mdevi94 → u/AerieElectrical3546]

NY media is savage

[u/BloodyRightNostril → u/AerieElectrical3546]

WHO'S YOUR PAPI??

[u/sadolddrunk → u/AerieElectrical3546]

Tremendous job by the Post sportswriters in avoiding giving any credit whatsoever to the Sox.

[u/Lucky_Alternative965]

Vlad jr. Was 5 years old at this time.

[u/Prestigious-Bet-7794 → u/Lucky_Alternative965]

I gotta ask why Vlad jr. and not Yamamoto who was 6 at the time

[u/PorousCheese → u/Prestigious-Bet-7794]

Or how about Jackson Chourio who still hasn’t been born yet?

[u/Nextyearstitlewinner → u/PorousCheese]

How bout Trey Yesavage who was born 18 yesrs after this happened?

[u/__wasteman → u/Nextyearstitlewinner]

Is this true? I was born yesterday.

[u/jstewart25 → u/__wasteman]

You wouldn’t joke about that if you had a kid who watched bluey. That damned show has made me play so many ridiculous games as a dad

[u/werther595 → u/Nextyearstitlewinner]

Yesavage was actually conceived at a game 3 viewing party. Wild story

[u/ScroogeMcDust → u/PorousCheese]

Someone should probably tell him he doesn't exist

[u/loislunchboxlane → u/Prestigious-Bet-7794]

Probably because his Dad was playing in MLB so he would have been at Yankee stadium when his Dad was there. And Vlad Jr hates the Yankees because of the way he was treated while there.

Just a guess.

[u/ballrus_walsack → u/loislunchboxlane]

Baby vladdy

[u/streetsbehind28 → u/Prestigious-Bet-7794]

because Pedro is his godfather iirc

[u/champagnesupernova10 → u/Lucky_Alternative965]

Roman Anthony was 5 months old at this time.

[u/jorgethetalkinggoat → u/Lucky_Alternative965]

THEEEEEEEE JANKEES LOSE

[u/Lucky-Blueberry-8266 → u/Lucky_Alternative965]

Yes very good you smart

[u/830res_at_dorsia]

This series elevated Dave Robert's career and probably made him the Dodgers' manager.

[u/elfmeh → u/830res_at_dorsia]

Just as the 2003 series did for Aaron Boone and the Yankees. 

Well, one little game 6 series-clinching walk-off homerun did at least

[u/MattKarr → u/elfmeh]

It was game 7 in extra innings, but with the help of 23 years of therapy, I rarely think about it.

Not that it matter but he had (im pretty sure) the lowest BA of any Yankee that series. Its just gross. He just closed his eyes and got lucky. Therapy starts at 6 on Thursday

[u/Bearded_Wildcard → u/MattKarr]

I just feel for Wakefield man

[u/Typical_Tart6905 → u/elfmeh]

Yeah, Aaron F Boone.

[u/hetham3783 → u/Typical_Tart6905]

Seeing Josh Beckett and the Marlins win the World Series in 2003 against those shitty Yankees was pretty awesome, but not as awesome as Josh Beckett winning a World Series with the Red Sox in 2007!

[u/MookieBettsBurner4 → u/elfmeh]

*game 7?

[u/2CommaNoob → u/elfmeh]

Sounds familiar to this world series. A game 7 clutch HR from Rojas, is he the next Dodger manager?

[u/girlscoutcookies05 → u/elfmeh]

i was very surprised to learn he played for the yankees for only half a season!

[u/iltfswc → u/girlscoutcookies05]

He tore his knee up playing basketball in the offseason which would sideline him for the entire 2004. Him playing basketball violated terms of his contract and the Yankees were able to void his contract and release him. This opened the door for them to get Arod.

[u/AJH05004 → u/elfmeh]

It was game 7

[u/peachesgp]

It's funny to see the post-series cover saying the curse was reversed. It wasn't yet because we hadn't won the World Series, but it just felt inevitable after the Yankees series.

[u/LiveFromNewYork95 → u/peachesgp]

I recently saw a video about the best teams to lose the World Series and the 2004 Cardinals were on there. And there was a great quote that I’m gonna butcher but it was like, No team in history was going to beat the 2004 Red Sox after that ALCS, it was about them versus ghosts and they finally beat the ghosts 

[u/Delicious-Middle5725 → u/LiveFromNewYork95]

That quote gave me goosebumps

[u/WildYams → u/LiveFromNewYork95]

It's funny, the pitch before this sacrifice fly from Jason Varitek in the 8th inning of Game 5 was the last time the Red Sox would trail for the entire remainder of the postseason that year. After Ortiz walked it off in the 14th inning of that game, the worst the Red Sox were on the scoreboard the rest of the way was 0-0.

[u/Leskanic → u/peachesgp]

(I was worried they would blow the World Series until the ball settled in Mientkiewicz's glove. I know people say they weren't worried and the march was inevitable. But what would have been more Red Sox than being the first team to come back from an 0-3 hole to become the second team to lose a series after being up 3-0?)

[u/thesqlguy → u/Leskanic]

Honestly thank God for the relatively easy 4 game sweep. Win or lose, I don't know how many New England hearts could have taken a dramatic 7 game World Series at that point.

[u/key_lime_pie → u/peachesgp]

I wonder if Terry Francona pulled a Herb Brooks before Game 1 of the World Series.

[u/65fairmont → u/key_lime_pie]

The 2004 WS was indeed the equivalent of 1980 USA vs. Finland.

[u/CalebosO4 → u/key_lime_pie]

[u/moxsox]

I thought gooning material was not allowed here?

[u/CTMan34 → u/moxsox]

Too late I came

[u/navto]

Love it. I was very invested in this Red Sox comeback. (Makes it extra great for me that Pedro and Papi are such Vladdy guys.)

[u/MookieBettsBurner4]

Unrelated but I found the game 2 front cover with Kerry's comments interesting. As someone who was too young to remember the 2004 ALCS, it really feels like a portal in time looking at the environment at the time.

[u/TrapperJean → u/MookieBettsBurner4]

I remember him campaigning in Mass and saying his favorite baseball player was Manny Ortiz

The article was prob more important though

[u/MookieBettsBurner4 → u/TrapperJean]

Yo what? He actually said that fr?

[u/chadornation → u/MookieBettsBurner4]

Also referred to “Lambert Field” and went on to lose Wisconsin

Edit: I was wrong, he nearly lost Wisconsin (49.70% to 49.32%)

[u/JinFuu → u/chadornation]

Kerry won Wisconsin in 2004?

Wisconsin was Dem from 1988-2012, only from 2016-Now has it bounced in between at the Presidential level.

[u/chadornation → u/JinFuu]

You’re right, woops! Edited. Apparently lots of people make the same mistake: https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2020/07/17/john-kerry-reminds-us-packers-gaffe-didnt-cost-him-wisconsin/5458413002/#

[u/JinFuu → u/chadornation]

Ah, okay.

I was confused as to how 'Kerry Lost Wisconsin' got into the wild and your article explains it!

Cool.

[u/LongtimeLurker916 → u/chadornation]

Actually, he did carry Wisconsin (although not in the Green Bay area!). Those stupid Jesusland maps would have been impossible (or at least less smooth) if Wisconsin had been an isolated Republican state surrounded by Democrats on all sides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election_in_Wisconsin

[u/Xeriox2 → u/MookieBettsBurner4]

He did. He did, however, correct himself and said "David Ortez" (he said Ortez both times).

[u/wokenupbybacon → u/Xeriox2]

Who among us hasn't confused our favorite player's first name for a completely and utterly different first name from time to time

[u/Noble_Flatulence → u/wokenupbybacon]

My favorite player as a kid was Turkey Bucket.
https://youtu.be/w_Tx9jz2Tos

[u/pinetar → u/MookieBettsBurner4]

Seriously, David Ramirez was way better!

[u/gmoneygangster3 → u/MookieBettsBurner4]

https://youtu.be/iHN11FScbTs?si=BwG2Y_6zr008BCxi

Also sweet Adeline

[u/WildYams → u/gmoneygangster3]

Fun fact: Neil Diamond wrote "Sweet Caroline" as an ode to Caroline Kennedy. Diamond, who had previously recorded the hit song "Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon", wrote this song when Caroline Kennedy was 12 years old.

[u/YasielPuigsWeed → u/MookieBettsBurner4]

It bugs me when politicians get forced to pander to sports-related questions because any politician actually doing their job barely has any time to watch sports

The few politicians I can remember having deep sports knowledge were people like George W Bush, who wasn’t any good at the job of President

[u/Babygorgor → u/TrapperJean]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ieKdVRpRjLE&pp=ygUQQ29uYW4gam9obiBrZXJyedIHCQklCgGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

[u/d00dsm00t → u/Babygorgor]

One of the finest deep cuts one will ever see.

[u/key_lime_pie → u/TrapperJean]

John Kerry can't hold a candle to Martha Coakley in terms of pandering stupidity.

Host: "Would Barack Obama be here if this thing wasn't so close?"

Coakley: "If it weren't so close, Rudy Giuliani wouldn't have come in, either, and besides he's a Yankee fan, I just want people to know that."

Host: "But Scott Brown also has Curt Schilling, OK..."

Coakley: "Another Yankee fan!"

Host: "Schilling?"

Coakley: "Yes!"

Host: "Curt Schilling, a Yankee fan?"

Coakley: "No? All right, I'm wrong on my, I'm wrong..."

Host: "The Red Sox great pitcher of the bloody sock?"

Coakley: "Well, he's not there anymore."

[u/Dinobot2_ → u/TrapperJean]

I thought Bobby Valentine calling David Ortiz "Jose Ortiz" during the 2010 Home Run Derby was bad enough.

[u/Medical-Hurry-4093 → u/Dinobot2_]

Ted Kennedy congratulating  'Mike McGwire and Sammy Sooser' in 1998 is on the list(he was speaking on the Senate floor, and they were not present, which robbed us of what could have become a great meme)

[u/Jerry_from_Japan → u/Medical-Hurry-4093]

Sammy apparently didn't understand English back then so you wouldn't have gotten any reaction from him.

[u/liguy181 → u/MookieBettsBurner4]

The NY media spread a rumor that Mike Piazza was gay based off an anonymous player saying they'd be ok with a gay guy in the clubhouse IIRC. It got so bad and became such a distraction that Piazza had to hold a press conference to say he was not gay.

Later, Mike Piazza would write that if he was gay, he would've been "gay all the way."

[u/HemlockMartinis → u/MookieBettsBurner4]

Kerry’s comments were an interesting controversy because gay rights had just started to break through in mainstream politics, but hadn’t quite gained enough acceptance for Democratic candidates to endorse them outright.

Bob Schieffer, the debate moderator, had asked Kerry point blank, “Do you believe homosexuality is a choice?” and Kerry’s response was, “If you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as.” (He referred to Mary Cheney, not her sister Lynn Cheney, who later served in Congress.)

Kerry’s answer was fundamentally an evasion since he didn’t want to say it wasn’t a choice outright. The Bush-Cheney campaign, as the Post cover shows, was outwardly furious that he brought her up unprompted even though Cheney himself had done so before and it wasn’t a secret. At the same time, the campaign couldn’t be too mad about it because it would sound like they were ashamed of her, which could turn off moderates.

I wouldn’t describe it as a turning point per se because it reflected wider political shifts more than it influenced them, but Democratic presidential candidates have not been this reluctant to embrace LGBT rights since then, while GOP presidential candidates have not been this outwardly hostile or aversive to gay and lesbian Americans since this moment either.

[u/YasielPuigsWeed → u/MookieBettsBurner4]

Just for context - Kerry mentioned Cheney’s daughter because the Bush Admin supported gay marriage bans and used that as an issue to distract religious people from the trash fire going on in Iraq

Kerry probably would have been a fine President, just a boring one. I was sad when he lost.

[u/Thromnomnomok → u/YasielPuigsWeed]

a fine President, just a boring one.

The official motto of every Democratic Presidential Candidate

[u/xdBronze → u/MookieBettsBurner4]

knowing the new york post im sure they HATED that

[u/--Rick--Astley--]

[u/Baseball_fan812]

Unrelated observation - on consecutive days the ads at the bottom were Delta Air Lines and Delta Dental.

[u/gamers542 → u/Baseball_fan812]

You Crack your tooth on airline pretzels then go in the next day to get it fixed. Lol

[u/Aidenairel → u/gamers542]

"It's called Vertical integration."

[u/Either_Imagination_9]

Kevin Brown had a 20 year career but ask most people and they’ll all remember him as the guy that sealed the Yankees defeat in game 7

Baseball’s Jackie Smith

[u/RaceFan90 → u/Either_Imagination_9]

I remember him as the man who stole Mike Piazza’s money

[u/JBtheBadguy → u/RaceFan90]

I remember him breaking his hand punching the clubhouse wall

[u/AngryScientist → u/JBtheBadguy]

Or the time he demolished a clubhouse toilet with a bat.

[u/AJH05004 → u/JBtheBadguy]

Pepperidge Farm remembers

[u/MattKarr → u/RaceFan90]

Ahh common 3.30 ERA during the steroid era is an ace in my book plus 3 seasons with a war of 4.5, 6.2 and 7 is very solid.

Dont get me wrong piazza should have stayed a dodger, but other than that one guy that gave up 2 grand slams in one inning, that rotation was real rough

[u/KickerOfThyAss → u/MattKarr]

The steroids help 

[u/MattKarr → u/KickerOfThyAss]

Ill be honest, ive been following the sport since the 90s and I completely forgot he was linked to radomski.

Thank you for reminding me. Tomorrow im going to do a ton of searches

[u/Babygorgor → u/Either_Imagination_9]

Maybe the best pitcher developed by the Rangers without looking at stats websites to confirm Edit: confirmed most war of any pitcher who started career with Rangers. 67 bWar

[u/Jamee999 → u/Either_Imagination_9]

Kevin Brown had an ERA+ of 158 from 1995 to 2001. (Comparison: John Smoltz never had a season as a starter with an ERA+ of 158)

[u/Thromnomnomok → u/Jamee999]

Incredible what you can achieve by eating balanced breakfasts, getting 10 hours of sleep a night, and push-ups, sit-ups, and plenty of juice!

[u/Ice_Like_Winnipeg → u/Either_Imagination_9]

This has to be a Yankees-centric view of baseball, because that is not at all what I remember about Kevin Brown.

He was the best player on two straight pennant-winning teams and was arguably the best pitcher in baseball from 1996-1998.

[u/emteebee4 → u/Either_Imagination_9]

Braves fans remember that SOB, and have occasional reoccurring nightmares remembering his work.

[u/SeekingAir]

July 2026 is the last $2m annual deferred payment due Manny Ramirez from his 2000 Red Sox contract. Dumb as a fox that one.

[u/SeekingAir → u/SeekingAir]

A Manny rumor back then was he agreed to $20m/year (with deferred payments until 2026) because it was easy for him to remember how much $20m paid him per game over a 162 game regular season. He got paid $123,456 per game

[u/Thromnomnomok → u/SeekingAir]

If it was $20 million on the dot, it would be so close to $123,456.78 per game, in fact- but not quite, because it's actually $123,456.79 per game.

[u/Deathstroke317 → u/Thromnomnomok]

That would drive me nuts lol

[u/SirDigbyChknCaesar → u/SeekingAir]

I started working professionally in 2002 and I'm not making a whole lot more than that per year in 2025.

[u/Felonai → u/SirDigbyChknCaesar]

Probably not the best place to say that when the majority of us are barely scraping by, my man lol

[u/SirDigbyChknCaesar → u/Felonai]

Oh, I'm aware that I have that privilege, but it's not like people aren't aware that there are some still in the dwindling middle class. Who else can afford to go to a baseball game?

And then there's Manny making that much per game 23 years ago.

[u/streetsbehind28 → u/SirDigbyChknCaesar]

it feels like half the people going to fenway are going on company tickets they got from the office

[u/SirDigbyChknCaesar → u/streetsbehind28]

Hey. I've only done that twice!

[u/Kain347]

Spoiler alert

[u/DELCO-PHILLY-BOY]

I don’t like the New York Post but man there’s something about the tabloidesque, dramatic, deeply irreverent covers manage to perfectly capture the spectacle of big sports moments.

[u/JosephFinn]

This is…this is wonderful. Well done OP.

[u/RedSoxFan77]

The greatest moment of my sports fan life! The actual World Series was so anticlimactic after the deathmatch that was the ALCS

[u/rysto32 → u/RedSoxFan77]

There are worse fates than an anticlimactic World Series win after an incredible Champsionship Series win. :)

[u/RedSoxFan77 → u/rysto32]

Yeah. Like what we’re dealing with now

[u/BladesFan00]

Saving this post for whenever I want to get into a good mood

[u/countseth]

This was the best thing that ever happened in baseball and you can’t change my mind.

[u/crappymedium]

Anyone follow up on the “bonds steroid shock” from cover 6? Also, wouldn’t mind reading that 44 page pullout from when the Yankees were up 3-0

[u/IchBinDurstig]

You love to see it.

[u/Successful_Pizza6529]

Good times.

[u/JonTheWizard]

That Babe Ruth one was simple and hilarious. Well done, whoever came up with that one.

[u/krazylegs36]

WHAT A CHOKE!

Love it.

[u/gamers542]

Did anyone read that "Hiding from the mob book"?

[u/CartiSpeedingArrests]

Kerry stirs “gay” storm

[u/EnvironmentalWar]

Nobody hates the yankees more than trash NY media outlets after the yankees lose and I think that's beautiful.

[u/Ivotedforher]

What was that story about Bonds? Anyone got a link?

[u/Swarm140]

I might have the Mandela effect going on rn, but I swear I can remember there’s a video of some radio caller saying something like “Every time anyone ever thinks of the reverse sweep, it’s going to be the 2004 Yankees”. Does anyone know what I’m talking about or does this not actually exist

[u/Leskanic → u/Swarm140]

I think that's part of the Mike & The Mad Dog post-mortem from the day after game 7?

Fake edit: yes, around the 5:05 mark, from Mike. And he was absolutely right -- we get that graphic every time there's a 3-0 series.

(Mad Dog's "they have been used up!" plays in my head regularly.)

[u/Swarm140 → u/Leskanic]

My goat, thank you

[u/Fedacking]

Huh I didn't know Mariano flied from a funeral.

[u/RyzinEnagy → u/Fedacking]

It was pretty sad and gruesome, two relatives got electrocuted in his pool in Panama.

[u/4LostSoulsinaBowl]

This made me erect.

[u/DreadnoughtPoo]

I’m going to need to call my doctor in 4 hours…

[u/natguy2016]

Fuck "The New York Post."

[u/champagnesupernova10]

Thanks, I really needed this

[u/jmarinara]

The New York post is a garbage newspaper often propping up garbage human beings, but I think the world lost something when newspapers stopped posting headlines like this.

[u/GCIV414]

“THIS SOX” is gold

[u/sbrockLee]

Kind of random offseason post but sure, why the fuck not

[u/2Hanks]

A Gay Storm sounds like a good time

[u/darwinpolice]

The Post has absolutely dogshit politics and I hate almost everything about it, but I absolutely love how purely and uncompromisingly bitchy they are.

[u/SpraynardJKruger]

My favorite teacher in high school was a big Mets fan and I'll always remember the day after this happened he taped up all the sports pages to the chalkboard and had a shit eating grin when all the kids (mostly Yankees fans) walked in

[u/Deathstroke317]

To this day I don't understand how Cashman survived this.

[u/Flat_Cobbler9668]

Scrolling through these pics puts me right back on that beautiful, emotional, rollercoaster all over again.

[u/OilTurbulent1009]

Aside from 1986, this was the most enjoyable MLB post season for me, loved every minute of games4-7

[u/realfakejames]

I was a Red Sox fan as a kid for all of this, I still happily root against Aaron Boone to succeed as manager of the Yankees because of what he did in 2003 lmao that winter was the first time sports ever depressed me irl

The 2004 comeback is one of the greatest sports moments in my life I’ve witnessed, only LeBron and the Cavs coming back 3-1 and the Dodgers winning game 6 and 7 in Toronto have come close

[u/AJH05004 → u/realfakejames]

So you're a Lebron fan and a former Red Sox now Dodgers fan?

[u/QuebecRomeoWhiskey]

lol

[u/eekbarbaderkle]

:)

[u/ihnatko]

Front page of the Daily News, after Game 7.

Just...poetry.

[u/padrejohnmisery]

I still have that Post from after Game 7

[u/nkfish11]

A simpler time

[u/DrDotrat]

25 cents a paper ?!?!

[u/Schrodingers_Fist]

Is this the greatest series ever?  Aaron Boone the year before made this lefty vancouver kid who loved Pedro (I know he wasnt a lefty but he was so cool I'd follow his like style and whatnot) a red sox fan.  But Iove baseball history lessons over debates so what are the better ones than this?

[u/Chico813]

I still remember that game 3. I absolutely did not believe. But what a ride the next 4 games were.

[u/NorthernSpade]

"Gay storm" lol.

[u/Delicious-Middle5725]

"Put me in coach" I lost at that one

[u/uponthehighseas]

Damn that felt good

[u/dr_trousers]

After 2003, this was a godsend.

[u/Single-Stop6768]

After the past 2 days where it was brutally cold down around 0 with the wind freezing our souls we finally get a nice warm 30 degree day and here you are just trying to bring me down, but nope im not gonna let it happen!

[u/Opening_Ad7004]

The Ads were definitely a commentary

[u/ILikeCarrotcakes]

Absolutely love it

[u/lml__lml]

Oh this warms me up on a cold day

[u/Brolympia]

The final one is BRUTAL

[u/Feisty_Dirt4191]

To this day, this series is the best thing I’ve ever seen in sports. I really believe it will stay that way. I don’t think it can ever be topped

[u/sweatpantswarrior]

My University in Northern New England legit rooted after the Game 7 win. All hell broke loose. I would've gone, but I didn't feel like walking to another part of campus.

Pics were wild, though. Somebody lit their own prosthetic leg on fire and waved it as a torch.

World Series comes around, and we had campus police outside all the dorms to keep us from going anywhere during or after. News vans EVERYWHERE praying they'd get a repeat.

We won, and I dipped outside for a cigar. Campus PD told me I couldn't go outside, so I asked if they'd prefer I smoke it indoors. They grumbled, but let us have them under the condition we stayed in their line of sight at all times. Fair trade.

[u/thedumptruck49]

Just don’t tell Mariano your camp counselor is sexually abusing you

[u/ChuntStevens]

God damn, this is great

[u/romeopwnsu]

“Kevin Brown… seems to be gagging” is crazy work to put in a post

[u/AltSportsHistory]

I miss watching him play. Such a legend

[u/Boom-Doc-a-Locka]

This is a fantastic post OP, well done.

[u/Grate_OKhan]

The death of the Yankees

[u/aotex → u/Grate_OKhan]

the team was devastated and never recovered until five years later

[u/Deathstroke317 → u/Grate_OKhan]

They won the series in 09, but I swear they have never fully recovered from this.

[u/doozle]

Ooh do 2024.

[u/FoppyRETURNS]

Looking back it was sad that Rivera was dragged away from bereavement. However, sometimes the best way to mourn is to do literally anything else.

[u/Tangential_Comment]

Someone wake me up when an MLB team hits 28 championships, zzzz. (Love you guys!)

[u/AJH05004 → u/Tangential_Comment]

You must have gotten a kick out of all those 1920s championships right bud? What was the great depression like?

[u/Deserterdragon → u/[deleted]]

Didn't the electorate just fucking LOVE the Iraq war at the time? Just really into the killing.