Your right nobody else does care except Yankee fans who don't feel all alone now in dealing with a monumental collapse.
I have to go with GMC - for the simple reason that i'm a Mets fan so what the Mets do effects me. I couldn't care less if the Yankees ever won or lost another game again.
It hurt no doubt about it but after seeing 4 titles in 8 years at that point it cushioned the blow a bit. If '96-'00 didn't happen and our last title was 1978 it would have hurt alot more.
The first step in recovery would probably be just winning another playoff series and returning to the scene of the crime, the ALCS. I don't expect them to win the WS every year, but clearly they expect to win the WS every year, they fall over themselves to tell us that every chance they get. These are the New York "anything less then a WS is a failure" Yankees... by there own standards they have been total failures since the GYC.
^^ based on that logic, failures since 2000. Well before the GYC. You probably don't remember 2000, though, we understand.
yeah, and one was on a huge stage and the other wasn't. plus, it wasn't just 4 games. 5 games vs. angels. 4 games vs. the Tigers. How many vs. the Indians? We'll see. GYC rules the roost, as always.
Another reason for GYC, it will be mentioned every single time a team is up 3-0 in a series in any sport. GMC will be remembered for a few months, heck it'll be hardly remembered now since it's the playoffs.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7286840 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.
