A great note from a great Yankee fan

[WilliamPitt]

This was in the mailbag to Bill Simmons, excellent sportswriter for ESPN and die-hard Boston fan:

As a diehard Yankee fan, I'd like to pull a Whoever That Was In The 1991 World Series Before Game 7 Started and offer a handshake to you and yours for coming back so dramatically.

The problem is, I'm so numb and limp from the past three nights I can't lift my arms, hands, or head off my desk. If the Yankees lose I'm not writing you anymore, because I will throw myself first under a bus, and then a train. I'm a Cub fan too, so I know where to find the big buses that make it hurt more.

No matter your ALCS party affiliation, though, there's no denying that this is outstanding for baseball, and so I'm thankful for it no matter the outcome tonight. This is equal to the 1975 World Series, to me, and the single-most important game of my lifetime -- the curse of the Bambino could actually DIE tonight after 85 years.

A Yankee loss will be like God coming down to hold a press conference and answer all the great questions of humanity. The only thing that can trump this, for sheer mind-shattering, I Do Not Know How To Handle This magnitude, would be a Cubs World Series title. Tonight is one of the great nights in baseball history, and we get to see it.

This is awesome.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/cowbell/041020

[DODI]

1. The curse is not lifted until BoSox win a World Series! That has

not happened yet. Keep focused - you need to win the World Series, not just beat the Yanks.

[WilliamPitt]

2. Disagree

The curse was centered on the Yankees, and specifically on the trade of Babe Ruth to the Yankees. We put it away last night in historic, unprecedented fashion...the only true way it could be done. You have to kill the werewolf with silver.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Ummm, Will, what do you think "1918" means?

Win the World Series and The Curse is lifted. The beauty of the way the Sox have gotten to the Series is that it's the perfect preamble to the final lifting of The Curse.

However, lose the Series, and "1918," as in the last year the Sox won the Series, lives on, as does The Curse.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

8. 1986 was soul shattering. It's all about the Series

Will, the Yankees are small shit (in retrospect) to the big picture.
We had the fucking Mets on strike 2 like 3 times and Calvin Schiraldi/McNamara fucking blew it.
Dave Henderson and Marty Barrett and Wade Boggs gave us a 2 run fucking World Series winning lead and we fucking blew it.
It's all about the Series.
The Yankees are now, officially, yesterday.

[Stephanie]

4. I met many New Yorkers the last few days who were rooting for the Red Sox

Quite a few, actually.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. There are Sox fans here in NY.... mostly Dodger fans or sons

and daughters thereof, who don't like the Mets and could never like the Yankees.
They are mostly subdued, but they are there.

[BeyondGeography]

6. It's a two team town

And, some still say, a National League town at heart. All Met fans root against the Yankees. Finding a New Yorker who roots against the Yankees isn't exactly a Needle in the Haystack proposition.

We don't do Nation Building here like in Boston.

[OneBlueSky]

7. any Yankee fan who's honest has to admit that . . .

the Red Sox comeback was both spectacular and historic . . . as was the Yankee collapse . . . the Sox displayed guts, heart and class by never giving up and overcoming incredible odds . . . they earned this victory and deserve it . . . and the Yanks deserve to be on the short end, because they just didn't rise to the challenge . . . to be up 3-0 and three outs away -- twice -- and not win it is inexcusable . . . hope the Sox finally, finally win the Series so that my friends in New England can die happy . . . and we can bury this curse nonsense once and for all . . .

Go Sox! . . . :)