and...........he passed away 1 week later...........a true blooded Canuck of a Yankee Fan, IF I ever saw one...... If only he'd of kept his tobacco cards from the 20s on.......
'04 & '01 are 1-2 on my list respectively.... I was WAY too young for the '81 series (not yet, but almost 3) & deductively not around nor thought of for the '60 series
In terms of being depressed after the series, I'd rate them as follows: 1. '01 really put me over the edge 2.'04 because it was the Bobosox 3. '60 just watching Berra moving to the wall in hopes of catching Mazeroski's HR. Another 2 feet and it's an out. 4.'81 losing in 6 games after winning the first two at home. BTW......Yankees lost all 3 games in LA each by one run. The infamous George Frazier lost 3 games, all in relief....gms 3, 4 & 6.
to add insult to injury, the '13 team that won it all, 2 of the 7 position players on that WS roster at the present time are yankees, and if you look at that entire roster they won it with less then the yankees have now!
^^^lol...uhh, sorry, but no. The 2013 Sox had a better offense, defense, and pitching, as compared to this year's Yanx.
Another crusher of sorts was the '80 Team. Yeah they won the division but dropped from an 8.5 game lead after being swept by Baltimore in the stadium then getting their asses kicked 3/5 in Baltimore. Getting swept by Kansas City was not cool at all, remember big George firing Ferraro for that base running miscue.
...I remember being really disappointed in 1980...they had a great team...won 103 games. Hell, we even had Gaylord Perry and Jim Kaat that year, lol.
I made two of the five games in Baltimore at memorial, the game Perry Started I saw on TV. The Royals hit the Yankees over the head with a sock full of shit. Even Brett realized in order to beat the Yankees they'd have to sweep.
...again, look at the stats. The Sox were a much better team in every facet of the game. ...Salty had a career year, Bogaerts played a whopping 18 games, Berry played a whopping 13 games, Carp was a utility man, Nava is/was a solid player.
...yup...the Sox led all of Baseball in runs scored in 2013, they had 5 regulars who batted .294 or better, and a team ERA of 3.79, stole more bases, and had a better FLD%......they were light years better than this years Yankee team,...and it wasn't even close.
One of my fondest moments of the 2013 season was being in an American Legion Bars watching the Yankees and Boston. The Yankees had an 8-0 lead but the pen shit the bed. My old buddy Boone Logan gave up a bases loaded jack to Crapoli. Yankee lost the damn game 12-8. Bunch of Red Sox Fans in there that night. That 2013 Yankees team was Cashman highlight of searching the dumpster to fill out the roster, Wells, Overbay, Hafner & the like. That team managed to play over its head until August then the roof caved in.
