When The Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry Peaked
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry goes back to 1919 when Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees for $100,000. For the rest of the century, the Yankees were the best franchise in baseball while the Red Sox were a team of misfortunes plagued by the curse of the bambino. From the 1946 World Series to 1967 to Bucky Dent to Bill Buckner to the 1999 ALCS, the Yankees always found a way and the Red Sox didn't. But things changed after 2003 when Aaron Boone sent the Yankees to the World Series with a walk-off home run. The Red Sox would come back from a 3-0 deficit over the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS and would go on to win the World Series to break their curse. With the fights, hatred, and level of play, 2003-2004 was the absolute peak of the rivalry.
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My grandmother lived Middleboro, Massachusetts. She born in 1910, so she was 7 or 8 when they last won the Series. She was 93 when all of this happened, I called her house the next afternoon. All she said was, "I can die now!" She passed away 2 months later. No bullshit
My great gma was born in 1920 and went her whole 84 years before she got to see them win, she died two years ago at 102 and was blessed to be able to see them win it 3 more times
My gg was born 1914 and was scared she would die after 04 but made it 4 more to see #2 and passed in 2009
Godbless these Red Sox women ❤
@@emceesleftovers2870 that generation of Sox fans are strong as hell, I feel spoiled that in my 30 years of life I have been blessed to see them do it 4 times out of
LOL
Given the current state of Boston sports it’s just insane to me to think that my grandfather was born and then died before he could see the Sox win a World Series
20 years later and “don’t let us get one” still brings tears to my eyes.
-a forever grateful red Sox fan.
I was a big Red Sox fan since 1995. That was the year Mo Vaughn won the MVP and the Sox lost against the Indians in 3 games in the ALDS. But from then, I was hooked. This is the best rivalry in baseball, if not all of sports. Those two years in 2003-2004 were peak as you said. I totally agree that Aaron Boone probably wouldn't be the Yankees manager if not for that HR in 2003.
‘95 was the year I became a real Sox fan. My fav player was Tim Nehring lol. Big Mo was a beast, though. He hit a grand slam the first time I ever went to a game at Fenway.
I absolutely can’t stand the Sox but man oh man I loved Big Mo!
I've been a Red Sox fan since I was 5. In 1994 I moved to the Seattle area and in 1995 the Mariners had a magical season that I got completely engulfed in. When Boston came to town I was so excited to see the Sox play. I stood outside the Kingdome to get MO's autograph. When they came out to get in their bus they were in a single file line and I saw Mo. I had my Red Sox baseball and asked him to sign my ball. He shook his head no and I was bumbed out bad. Down the line I saw Jose' Conseco and he gladly signed my ball. I thought that was cool, but I wanted Mo Vaughn's. It was bittersweet but I still have that Conseco ball!
@@joelwatts5260 Can-stinko, as he was affectionately referred to by my ornery grandpa. He was decent overall for the two seasons he was here, but missed a lot of time on the DL. Haven’t thought about that in a long time, thanks for the sparking that memory😂
I like MO. I was at the Mets game when he hit the top of the score board. As a kid that completely blew my mind
Always and forever going to be a Yankee. But now the Red Sox Rivalry feels more like a Gentlemen’s Agreement duel more than anything.
But we can all agree on one thing.
Fuck the Astros
Fuck dem Stros. A Red Sox dynasty would be preferable to the Series getting another ring.
Hopefully, the Asstros don't even make the playoffs this year!
If anything, the Yankees, Red Sox, and Astros should be supportive of each other. After all, they’re all cheaters! Include the Dodgers too. Gotta stay ahead of the smaller markets somehow
Astros did nothing wrong
As a Red Sox fan I agree
the "dave roberts came out of the dugout to take kershaw out of the game" joke had me laughing for way too long
Yeah I was really confused about this thanks for explaining
@parker-lonzy650 me too. I was momentarily wondering "did Kershaw start with the Red Sox?".
Nostalgia right here. I was fresh in HS with the Boston Massacre. That rivalry from 03-07 was PEAK Baseball
you were fresh in highschhool in 1770? fuck mate u old
These are the teams I grew up on, this was a nice walk down memory lane. Thank you!
Bill Mueller was always my favorite and insanely underrated. Silver slugger and AL batting champion in 03’ and only guy to ever hit two grand slams in a game, one from each side of the plate (also had a solo HR that game). Career 291 avg. Wore #11 as a kid because of him.
Agree that he was truly underrated. Not only overshadowed by superstars Ortiz and Ramirez, but B Mueller seemed to get less attention than clearly inferior players like K Millar and T Nixon. No sure why there wasn't more buzz for Mueller who was super productive.
I walked to Fenway the night the Sox won in '04 with a group of thousands of college students. It was contagious euphoria - pure sports ecstasy (until it got destructive lol)
While he wasn’t on the championship team, I believe Nomar was given a ring when the Red Sox won in ‘04.
I'm almost 100 percent certain he got a "share" which means he got a ring.
He played like 100 games for that squad before being traded
He got a ring
Those seasons, between 1999-2007, has to be the greatest period of Baseball ever! Every game was it's own Magnum Opus! There was more drama, action and palpable tension than any other time since!
Growing up in Westchester, NY, and New England at this time, given the greatness of these teams and their games, and all of the great players/coaches on both sides, I didn't realize it at the time, but this might actually be the peak of sports in my lifetime. This was a nice trip down memory lane.
I was a month old by the time they won in 2007, I was born at the hospital just a block away from Fenway. I’m often thanked and credited with the win from family 😂
As a Yankee fan when I went to Fenway honestly it was such a fun experience it was more of a we hate you and we hate you too joke
It’s actually quite heartwarming
I feel the same way when I go to Yankee Stadium as a Sox fan. It’s fun to banter about how much we can’t stand each other with a wink and a nod.
@@deprosport7254 and the crazy thing is
Ted Williams and Jimmie Foxx are some of my favorite players ever and they were both Red Sox’s
@@JackCallSports tbh the only Yankees I can say that are unhateable are Matsui and Judge lol I’ll need to make an exception for my Dominican brother Soto though
@@deprosport7254 FACT 😂
And here’s something too I’ll say without hesitation
Not only was Williams better than DiMaggio
But a way WAY better person
@@JackCallSports man you might be the only honest Yankee fan alive 🤣
Man from the steroid era to the end of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry was the very best time to watch baseball. Unfortunately there’s no rivalries like this anymore. Dodgers/Giants, Cubs/Cards, Yanks/Sox have all lost their edge. Yanks/Astros never had a true benches clearing heated moment during their “rivalry”. The only hope of another hot rivalry is Phils/Braves
Braves-Phils the past two years has been heated. There is not anymore of those brawls from the Sox-Yankees, Celtics-Lakers, Eagles-Dallas because the league's have become so soft
Was in college in New England from 2003-2007, and this rivalry was a definitive part of that experience. Awesome video man it was great to reminisce.
Man I was 10 years old in 2004 and just started watching baseball as a yankee fan, watching my father as a die hard yankee fan it made me one. That red sox comeback had me crying for days, but seeing it now its incredible how they came back from being down 0-3
I was a young Yankees fan in 2004, and seldom have I felt pain like I felt after the ALCS that year. That planted the seed of a lifetime of beef towards the Red Sox lol. Definitely hated seeing them win the World Series that year and then three more by 2018 while we've only managed to get one in the last 15 years.
same lol had me crying as a 10 year old
Yea but we had like 5 or six since the 90s sooo
@chiapets2594 don't matter...since 04 it's 4 to 1... I know that has to hurt yall and it's glorious. Keep in mind my 8th grade year was Aaron f'n Boone and our redemption arc may have been quick but that would of went on to haunt me if not lol
Jimmie Foxx? He didn't play for Boston until 1936!
He was 12 years old. 😂
Rip tim Wakefield
Great video. I would have mentioned the construction worker from Boston who worked on the new Yankee Stadium and dropped a Red Sox jersey in the concrete. The Yankees spent tens of thousands of dollars on sonar equipment to find it, and another tens of thousands to dig it out and replace the dig.
This was such an amazing time to be a fan of either team. The dislike/hatred was palpable on both sides. I can't say anything about the 70s or 60s, but the 90s through 20004 were just incredible.
growing up in boston in the early 2000s really was something else, i still remember going to dozens of games with my mom, not completely understanding what i was witnessing at the time, but damn what an era, bring back hostility in baseball
This rivalry defines my baseball fandom. The 04 Red Sox made me a fan for life.
Watch four days in October(Red Sox 04)
@@Trimusa “Why not us?” Of course I’ve seen that brother lol
Love the video! Just a heads up tho. Jimmie Foxx didn't play for the Red Sox until the 1930s. Small correction though.
I'm a Yankee fan, and if Varitek and ARod were fighting, I would still root for Varitek. Always liked him.
But that was such a punk move. You want to go at a guy, so be it. But removed your protective gear. Starting a fight while still wearing your catchers mask is weak.
Varitek was a jerk!
Man I was intrigued to learn about this rivalry. Wasn’t expecting to catch so many strays as a Minnesota fan lol
So judging by the ending, the Dodgers are going to spend the next 80 years terrorizing the Red Sox and the 2104 World Series will be the greatest World Series ever (and I mean so good that it will almost make 2016 look like a snoozefest by comparison).
As someone who was born in a Yankee household and loves the team, the late 90's and early 2000's is definitely peak modern Yankees/A's rivalry. It hasn't felt the same since I was a kid. I was 8 in 2004, so there was definitely sadness in our house the night the Red Sox won the World Series. I agree with the other commenters that it just feels like tradition now for the teams to face off against each other these days. Hopefully the Yankees can actually win a World Series sometime soon, since it'll have been 15 years since their last win this year. They haven't won since their first year in the new ballpark in 2009.
I was an avid Yankees fan during the peak of the rivalry. Since then I have visited Boston and FELL IN LOVE with the city!! Boston is amazing!!! I have even come to like the Red Sox - mainly because I’m not as into sports as I was back then, also the rivalry isn’t as intense these days. I even bought a Red Sox hat, but after doing so something feels so wrong about wearing it! I don’t know if I can do it! 😂
What an amazing era of MLB.
Kevin Millar started the whole “Don’t let us get one” thing. There’s an interview where he says it
2004 was the greatest baseball season of my life, and I'm a Mets fan. Pretty sad, I know.
😂 damn lol
It’s crazy how Boston is part of the 3 biggest rivalry’s in the big 4 North American sports, bruins vs canadiens, Celtics vs lakers, and the classic red Sox’s vs Yankees
My father, a big Red Sox fan, took me to games in the 1950's where we watched Ted Williams play out his career. He was born in 1918 and died in 2003.
Boston was made stronger by those curse years, tempered and hardened.
aye bro great content! love it. just fyi tho there are multiple discrepancies between what you are saying and the scoresheets shown, etc. may want to double check the edits to ensure full cohesion but again, great watch 💪
My freshman year of High-school was 04... 03 was a crushing loss only to have the magical 04 that changed the course of history for the city of Boston. Peak baseball in Boston for sure. Just ain't the same anymore.
Glad to have watched the peak in real time. Great time for Boston 😂
Love the video, always nice to look back at that 2004 Sox team, legendary. Buy, fyi, Bill Mueller's last name is pronounced without the 'u', so it sounds like Miller. Was kinda funny hearing Mew-ler a few times :)
The Astros has taken over the rivalry.
Music on point! Great video
Clicked cause the thumbnail is the origin of my PP I have had since I made this account - grew up with that rivalrly and still look fondly on it to this day. Boston wins, I cheer, Yankees lose, I cheer harder!
Man those were the days!
Vivaldi was peak. Well played.
I never understood why they blamed Buckner...They had already blown the lead in the game, not to mention losing the next game as well. I was 7 at the time...I remember the chaos
Staring Kevin Brown and Javier Vasquez sealed it for us in game 7 ( still salty about it )
And I am a big Mets fan and I hate when the Yankees beat the Mets in 2000
As a Yankee fan Mets were so cocky but y’all end up choking in the 2015 World Series
I desperately miss the dynasties that occurred in the seventies, seemingly the last time baseball had competitive disparity amongst its teams. Players of course deserved the chunk of prophets that they finally ended up wirh via free agency, but it did deeply harm competition.
Teens that once held an edge because of dynamic farm systems and amazing scouts, instructetd, & managers.
Dynastys play the Oakland Athletics Cincinnati Reds and Baltimore Orioles wouldn't be possible in the same way today.
The Orioles for incense of the amazing job drafting and developing players, putting themselves in an enviable position to have perhaps the top catcher in the game and Addley Ruschtman, top five hitter Gunnar Henderson, Kjersyad, Coswer, Holiday, Mayo, etc etc. instead of this becoming a phenomenal base for the next decade and a half, the team is now forced to pick two or three of them to try to sign, while the rest will have to be traded away after three or four years of service.
There is a reason the NFL out competes Major League Baseball in every possible way. Almost every single NFL game is competitive, as is every season, I'm nearly every team. When there is a quarter million dollar difference between the highest salary team and lowest is impossible to fool yourself into believing there is a competitive balance, leading to BOREDOM.
Worse, if your team like the Orioles has a plethora of amazing prospects in its system, the only thing you can be guaranteed of is a year or two of Major League success to one degree or another, unless you have an azing owner
In classic Red Sox fashion, they are great at the turn of the century but will inevitably suck for the next 80 years
Lots of Sports Guy references in the vid, nice.
Nice video thanks 👍
dave roberts to take kershaw out of the game? Oh man, that was funny as hell!
We had tickets to the first spring training game in 04 standing room people were offering 250 a ticket when we were walking up we didn't sell what a mistake nothing happened nobody important played and it was super hot.
Every Time I think of David Ortiz on reminder of the fact he was in the Mariners farm system at the same time Ken Griffey Jr, Jay Buhner, Edgar Martinez, and Alex Rodriguez ...... Rodriguez actually saw him playing in rhe low minors and asked the Seattle GM that he (Ortiz) showed more power than ajy player he'd ever seen, and that he should be called up to the majors immediately.
Imagine that killer row of bats
Good video, but if you'll allow one honest critique: It was hard for me to keep track of the years/eras during the first 10 minutes because you kinda just mention the year once in an otherwise extremely long sentence of explanation (which is fine as a style, but a few more graphics focusing on the year in question would go a long way).
The drama in the events speak for themselves... just give them a chance to do so is all I'm saying. Otherwise great vid! As a young Gen-X, this was a great nostalgia trip! 😀
If you think Boston v NYY rivalry is more hate-fuelled than any in the world, you should check out the Old Firm in Glasgow or the Belgrade Derby.
Good video brother!
Good channel
After the 04’ season the Rivalry has been one sided… Boston 4 chips , Yankees 1
Boston only needs like 18 more chips to catch up 😅
It's wild to think there are people old enough to drive and vote who have zero recollection of any Yankees titles.
@@colinrankin1659Yeah, anything before the 90s doesn’t count. Plumbers and segregation titles aren’t valid.
Here’s a dishonorable mention the NY giants defeating the undefeated patriots in Super Bowl 42
Yes but before game 4 of the 04 alcs the yankees had won 4 since 96 and been to another 2 and beat boston in 99 and 03...so it was one sided and the yankees had won in 77 78 and 49 to 53 and many before and after that since the last red sox ring
Bucky Dent 😂👍🏼
03 was CRUSHING. 04 was so amazing that it ruined baseball for me.
0:23 1903
1:43 Babe Ruth sold by Red Soxs to Yankees
3:57 The 1960s-1970s
5:08 Bucky Dent gives Yankees 3-2 Lead.
5:38 Red Soxs Bill Buckner
6:38 1996 The Yankees Dynasty
7:06 1998 Yankees Spectacular.
7:25 1999 Red Sox Pedro Martinez.
9:30 Yankees Win again.
9:55 2000 Yankees Dominate.
10:30 2002 Red Soxs. Theo Epstein.
11:21 "The Evil Empire" New York Yankees.
13:44 2002 Red Soxs-Yankees Playoff Series.
The only thing good for the Yanks after 2004 was to break the curse the Red Sox became the Yankees and did everything from 2004 to 2011 that fans used to complain about Yankees. They sold out and the rivalry is no longer their after 2011.
Not to mention the Red Sox had first shot at signing both Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays, but turn them both down because of rasicm
Cry about it.
Nice humour!
Wow fantastic. I lived it saw probably 75 games between 2003-2004. ..all 3 alds games in Oakland. Losing game 1 with my dad next 2 me ..
22:21 “Fun too” 😂
99-04 = peak baseball
Jimmy Fox didn’t play for the Red Sox until 1936
04 was peak red sox yankees
a lot of people dont know this but Babe Ruth was seen as a black man by most of the league. A lot of players were super racist to him. Like even though he was Babe Ruth. Theres a lot of pictures of him in a suit in the stands with no one around him and thats because of the racism of the time.
How about something about the Cardinals/Cubs rivalry FOR ONCE!?!?!?!?
Ill never forget Aroid gay slap of the glove lol
Haven't watched yet but its 2003-2004 right?
It was intense but it seems pretty dead now, sadly.
8:56 candy? 😂
These videos crack me up. People explaining things that they just hastily researched moments before. All the names are always mispronounced which is a dead giveaway for not haven't watched any of it before.
8:54.... Darryl....Daaarryyylllll.... Daaarryyyll
Nice!
Torre so mismanaged that 2004 ALCS.
Pedro gave up a bomb to Chili Davis. Wow.
Jimmy Foxx didn’t play in the 1910’s.
How would the 2004 Red Sox take inspiration from the 2023 Celtics? Did they discover time travel?
Great video but I would appreciate not catching strays as a Twins fan
“Yankees legend Randy Choate”
As a orioles fan i have to see this mussina you traitor 😂
The end of the video is scaring me
Jimmie foxx didn’t play in Boston until 1936 1:43
2004 Sox got Keith Foulke to stabilize the bullpen in addition to Schilling
Go ROYALS!!
Interesting background music.
Great video, but please look for a pronunciation guide next time. Lucchino, Mueller, and Mientkiewicz all mispronounced.
Lmfao I was a NY Mets fan hate watcher 😂
Still am
And as a Mets fan, I guess there's little else for you to do.
Go, Yankees!!!!!!
@@waynej2608Go Yankees!! To Cancun after getting eliminated in the ALCS again!
Mets fans will root for Boston if the Mets don’t make the playoffs while the redsox are in
Jimmy Foxx wouldn't play for the Red Sox for decades after Ruth was on the team.
This is incredibly well done. (And I don’t even care, I’m a Tigers fan. Seriously, kudos)
and then the Red Sox said they were gonna chill in the 2010s against the Yankees. And then a certain Venezuelan second baseman and a team in Houston decided it was their turn to bully the Yankees around in the 2010s playoffs
I'll go with the Tigers as well. 3 playoff meetings that Detroit won all of.
The cardinals cubs rivalry could be a good one too
Pop Rocks the most dangerous candy ever.
The Lakers vs celtics rivalry is the best in all of sports
Lakers fans might be mad if Boston wins the nba finals