the Yankees bring up as far as having success, you can easily knock it out by saying we knocked you out after being 0-and-3. The one the Boston Red Sox were able to get from the Yankees was probably the most painful ever, I think, in any sport to the Yankees fans.” 

Pedro Martinez, the Boston Red Sox management, Red Sox players and Red Sox fans just don’t get it.

Listen carefully. The loss to the Red Sox in the 2004 ALCS is the 14th-worst in New York Yankees history. Nothing is worse than losing the World Series. No, getting there and losing is not better than not getting there at all.

The Yankees have lost the World Series 13 times. It is not easy to rank the pain created by those defeats, but some hurt worse than others.

Until 2001, the most agonizing was the 1960 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. What the Arizona Diamondbacks did in 2001 was worse. When the Brooklyn Dodgers won their first and only world ...

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