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For me it has to be the Red Sox 04 post season run. Hands down the greatest, I guess collective sports moments I've ever witnessed. Not only was comeback against the Yankees historic (no team had ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in a 7 game series), the series itself produced some absolute classic games/moments. Dave Roberts steal of second to help tie game 4 and keep the Sox alive, David Ortiz hitting back to back extra inning walkoffs, the meat grinder 14 inning 5 hour 49 minute game 5 marathon, the "Bloody Sock" game and finally winning game 7 at Yankee Stadium...
...all that and the World Series hadn't started yet. They still had to face the St Louis Cardinals, a team who had beaten them in two previous World Series. The Curse of the Bambino was still alive and nobody really expected them to break the 86 year curse...how wrong we were. The Red Sox swept the series 4-0 in what turned out to be a pretty routine, uneventful series, in fact they held the lead in all four games. However watching them win the championship was the highlight, and my god how sweet it was. As an eerie side not to the Series, game 4 in which the Red Sox won the championship, was played under a Lunar Eclipse, coupled with all the talk of breaking the curse it was an odd, eerie coincidence and gave the win a weird supernatural feel...I guess you had to be there.
Anyway it was amazing ride, one I don't think, for me will ever be duplicated.
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