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re: Biggest Choke - Yankees or Red Sox

Posted by blatchy on 9/29/11 at 10:08 pm to
And again, The Yankees lost four games to the World Champions.

But the Red Sox fall for an entire month to the likes of the Orioles and the Blue Jays. Some teams rise up. They self-destructed against nobodys.

Sorry, as unbelievable and epic as this 2004 was, good teams can choke against good teams. They aren't supposed to choke against bad teams...for an entire month (hell, they even choked against good teams). And they had more than four shots to correct it...

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re: Biggest Choke - Yankees or Red Sox

Posted by blatchy on 9/29/11 at 2:47 pm to
Red Sox. Can't believe people think it's the Yankees, hands down.

Yanks lost against an ALCS team which subsequently went onto sweep the Cards in Series. They were playing against the best team in the league.

The Red Sox had a whole month, could have won all of 9 out of 27 games, and still had gone to the playoffs. The projected best team got pounded
band went 3 for 4 against a .500 team in the BlueJays and and went 1-6 against the O's, a team with the 4th worst record in baseball. They only had to win a third of their games, and all but their wins to the Yankees were against teams that had worse records (and they had owned the Yankees up to that point).

All 45 of ESPN's Baseball analysts and writers, including a slew of players, ALL of them picked The Red Sox to win the AL East, the majority of them winning the whole thing.

They had to win 9 games out of 27! Sorry, even though it was a bigger stage in the ALCS, the competition was far greater for the Yankees than than Boston fared in September. There's NO WAY that the Red Sox, chasing a Wild Card (which was its own crowning underachievement) should go 1-6 against the Orioles in a playoff race, including blowing last nights game.

FAR bigger choke.