Greatest Chokes In Sports History...lol.
Hello to all my Yankers buddies,
ENJOY!
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1. New York Yankees, 2004 ALCS
When you're the first team to blow a 3-0 series lead in 101 years of postseason history, that pretty much qualifies you for the top spot on our list.
When you do it against your biggest rival, ultimately enabling them to end 86 years of postseason futility, it pretty much mandates it.
And it's not as if anyone else had come close to duplicating Boston's unprecedented rally from three games down in the American League Championship Series. The Red Sox were the first team to even force a Game 7 after dropping the first three. Only two teams before Boston's merry gang of idiots had even made it as far as a Game 6.
Truth be told, the Red Sox shouldn't have even gotten that far. They were down one in the ninth in Game 4, down two in the eighth in Game 5 and the Yankees had arguably the most dominant postseason performer of his generation sitting in the bullpen in Mariano Rivera. Both times, Boston rallied to win in extra innings, setting the stage for Curt Schilling and his bloody sock.
Schilling was supposed to be done for the series with an ankle injury that would ultimately require surgery. And the Yankees undoubtedly wish that had been the case, as Schilling's masterful Game 6 performance thoroughly demoralized the Bronx Bombers to the point where they barely showed up in a 10-3 loss in Game 7 to complete the collapse.
Luv ya,
Korbel
Hello to all my Yankers buddies,
ENJOY!
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7286840?MSNHPHCP>1=10539
1. New York Yankees, 2004 ALCS
When you're the first team to blow a 3-0 series lead in 101 years of postseason history, that pretty much qualifies you for the top spot on our list.
When you do it against your biggest rival, ultimately enabling them to end 86 years of postseason futility, it pretty much mandates it.
And it's not as if anyone else had come close to duplicating Boston's unprecedented rally from three games down in the American League Championship Series. The Red Sox were the first team to even force a Game 7 after dropping the first three. Only two teams before Boston's merry gang of idiots had even made it as far as a Game 6.
Truth be told, the Red Sox shouldn't have even gotten that far. They were down one in the ninth in Game 4, down two in the eighth in Game 5 and the Yankees had arguably the most dominant postseason performer of his generation sitting in the bullpen in Mariano Rivera. Both times, Boston rallied to win in extra innings, setting the stage for Curt Schilling and his bloody sock.
Schilling was supposed to be done for the series with an ankle injury that would ultimately require surgery. And the Yankees undoubtedly wish that had been the case, as Schilling's masterful Game 6 performance thoroughly demoralized the Bronx Bombers to the point where they barely showed up in a 10-3 loss in Game 7 to complete the collapse.
Luv ya,
Korbel
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