When The Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry Peaked

Jesus Christ is Love!!!

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! 😂

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.

How about something about the Cardinals/Cubs rivalry FOR ONCE!?!?!?!?

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

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

Stankees can have the last Century,but the Sox are closing in.Greed will destroy that Franchise.

Loving the asses

It was intense but it seems pretty dead now, sadly.

How would the 2004 Red Sox take inspiration from the 2023 Celtics? Did they discover time travel?

What an amazing era of MLB.

04 was peak red sox yankees

It'll always be Bucky Fuckin Dent and Aaron Fuckin Boone.

I’m expecting big things from this, don’t disappoint

I don’t think there will ever be anything like being a Red Sox fan in New England during 03-04. Those were my first two years as a serious baseball fan, too, and while I’m tempted to say nothing came close…. 2007 when I moved to Colorado and decided to follow the Rockies that year along with the Red Sox was probably a more awesome season for me as a fan than 2004. If you had asked me my dream scenario for 2007 at the start of the season, it would have been the Red Sox sweeping the Rockies in the World Series that year - like that’d ever happen.

Jaylen Brown

I remember being in high school and driving into Boston with my buddies after the Sox broke the curse it was crazy. Those were the days!

The game 6 ketchup packet sock game was epic 😂

Who cares.

The reason Lucchino called the Yankees the “evil empire” after the Contreras signing was because both teams were heavily persuing him after he defected from Cuba and fled to Mexico: the Red Sox and Yankees were both going to meet him at the hotel where he was staying, but the Yankees bought out every hotel room in the building beforehand to keep the Sox people out, and made sure they signed Contreras before he could talk to Boston.

Good video but if you’re going to make a video about the 2004 rivalry and talk about the July 24th game, you have to at least mention the July 1st game as well, and Nomar’s subsequent trade. Both all time classics

Rest of baseball: RED SOX! YANKEES! RED SOX! YANKEES!

Me, an Orioles fan: Oh that’s cool… I’ll just sit over and remember 1983. Oh, and fuck Jeffery Maier

New York ngas mad sissy

As a Yanker fan , I niss those days. Even a series in early May felt like a playoff series

I guess I got into baseball at the right time at 10 years old, because 2003 and 2004 I was a spoiled new Red Sox fan.

The scapegoats of the 86 WS and 03 NLCS were 100% not responsible for those teams collapsing in a single inning. Then going on to lose the next day in Game 7. Buckner and Bartman are better men than me. Because I would NEVER forgive those people.

I became a Yankees fan during the 1996 playoffs and World Series. And I consider the 2001 World Series to be the greatest of all time. And in the greatest World Series of all time the Yankees HAVE to lose.

The 2004 Red Sox won 8 straight against not only the Yankees, but also against their biggest NL rivals, the St Louis Cardinals. They have met in 5-6 World Series. The 2004 Boston Red Sox have probably the best story in major US sports history.

99 and the robbery of the "phantom tag" is never given enough play. Like it was so not even close, stole a WS chance from Nomar's career!

You didn't even mention the 1976 brawl, which was the actual peak of the rivalry. Thumbs down.

Jimmie Foxx didnt play for the red soxs until the 1930s...

Technically speaking the year 2000 was still part of the 20th century. There is no year 0, as such the 1st century ended after the year 100. Which of course is how it continued. 101-200 was the 2nd century, etc.

I was born in 81, I graduated high school in 99. Baseball was my first love, played into college. Had a great fastball. You had to be there to understand the passion. Lost my grandparents and my my brother in 02' and 04'. I loved this game.

Aaron Boone did emotional damage to Tim Wakefield with that homer.

And still the biggest & longest rivalry in the American League since 1901.

As a Yankee fan, my grandmother was Ty Cobb and my grandfather was a catcher’s mitt and we all watched baseball together so this video really got my memories flowing. Thank you.

Still cry everytime watching ‘04.

At that time I would rather see the Yankees loose then see the Red Sox win it was a weird time

I was at the Arod Varitek fight game. It was an insane atmosphere that day. The place was basically vibrating leading up to that and it just exploded lol

His name is pronounced bill “Miller” I know it’s spelled weird tho

Made me a Red Sox fan in 37 min.

Michigan-ohio state football is a far better and more ingrained rivalry. They’d even been playing each other every year for 6 years before the Red Sox and Yankees played the first game against one another.

OSU - BICHAGAN is a far more bitter rivalry and by far the best rivalry in sports.

Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise

Im 1998 I moved from Washington Heights (Red Sox Nation) to the Bronx. I quickly felt the full brunt of living in enemy territory. From being spit at, having stuff thrown at me and people cursing me out it was something to say the least.

It all started before game 2 of the 1986 World Series when my Father said he'd buy us Cokes if the Mets beat Boston. I was only a kid and lost on the rules of baseball or what the World Series was but watching Roger Clemens made me a fan of the Red Sox.

As I got older I learned their history and became a fanatic. 2003 was utter hell for me. I was told to wear my Red Sox hat proudly and nearly jumped. However, 2004 came, I attended my first game at Fenway. It was patriots day against the Yankees. The Sox came back and won the game! A few months later I saw that same group of punks from 2003 after the ALCS and told them to go choke like their Yankees did. They never said another word to me anytime I saw them after that 😂

Needless to say the rivalry hasn't been anything worthwhile since 2013 when Dempster threw at A-Fraud and the Sox won their 3rd World Series in that time frame. 2018 was magical too. Aaron Judge blasted NY, NY at Fenway which fired up the Red Sox to beat the Yankees in the ALDS and led to Cora repeating Francona winning a World Series in his first year as the manager but aside from 2021 the Sox haven't done much since.

Hopefully this season will be one to remember for Red Sox nation.

Wearing full catchers gear and assaulting someone is crazy.

It's interesting that the 2010s are the first decade since the 80s where the Yankees failed to win the World Series and we're halfway through the 2020s.
If we make it to 2031 it'll be the biggest gap between Yankee world championships since they were founded...