Game 7

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Posted By: Aaron

"Did anyone, I mean ANYONE on this board really think the Red Sox had a chance in hell of making it to game 7 after being down 3-0?"

Not down 3-0, but I actually did after Boston won Game Four, to go down 3-1. The baseball Gods are suckering the Red Sox fans in, just so they can crush them one more time.

You figure Sox fans grumble all winter how the team got dominated by the Yankees if they lose 4-0 or 4-1, or even 4-2 (they'd complain about Shilling's injury as another indicator of the curse), but it doesn't have the same spirit-crushing impact of the play-off loss in 1978 or Game Six in '86 or last year's Game Seven loss, so it doesn't join the lore of the curse (does anyone really remember the Sox lopsided ALCS losses in 1988, 1990 or 1999?), other than it would add another year to the post-1918 drought.

Now, OTOH, that the Sox have become the first team to ever rally from down 3-0 to force a Game Seven, now that the series is knotted up 3-3 and Sox fans are wrapped up in what would be the greatest post-season comeback in baseball history, now that Sox fans are on the cusp of delivering what would be a historic collapse onto the hated Yankees, is the time to lower the boom on Sox fans.

My prediction was that Boston would tie it at 3-3, only to lose Game Seven. I hope I'm wrong--but these are the Yankees, and these are the Red Sox.