In Case You Missed It - 2004 Docuseries on Netflix

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The 04 yanks series was the most taxing and exhausting stretch of games in my lifetime.

I'm glad i wasn't old when it happened or i probably would of had a heart attack or stroke during it:D.
 

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The 04 yanks series was the most taxing and exhausting stretch of games in my lifetime.

I'm glad i wasn't old when it happened or i probably would of had a heart attack or stroke during it:D.
My dad punched a hole in the wall in 03
 

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I threw a beer bottle through a window at a bar in Houston. Not my proudest moment.
My dad, weeping, said:

"I think I'm going to be a Yankees fan now, being a Sox fan hurts too bad."

As shocking, as terrifying as that was... In that moment I couldn't argue with him.

To make it worse, my brother had a bet with one of his fraternity brothers that whoever lost had to take the other guy to a World Series game. He was looking for tickets before we could even mourn.

We got over it eventually, but it's hard for me to explain to anyone who isn't a longtime member of SoSH just how much 2003 sucked for me and my family.

Thank God for you guys. And thank God for 2004.

Thank God my dad didn't follow through on his weakest moment.
 

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My dad punched a hole in the wall in 03
I did the exact same. God. I was watching with my girlfriend at the time and she had only been watching baseball for basically that summer/fall with me. Then Grady doesn't pull Pedro and she asks "why isn't the pitcher out of the game?"

Anyway, Boone's homer goes up, and before it even hits the bleachers, I walk upstairs, punch a hole in the drywall (the only other time I got "violent" after a loss was G1 of the 1999 ALCS -- I kicked a door in my freshman dorm so hard I had to get crutches to help me walk), and called my Mom.

The next day, I visited my faculty advisor (who's a wonderful person but also a diehard Yankees fan) and I knocked on his office door and he invited me in. We sat there for about 3 minutes in silence before he broke the tension, "You'd think a group of idiots would know that a pitcher was spent, right?" Honestly, I cracked up -- I love that guy, and we stay in touch (he's also a Giants fan, so talking to him after the two Pats/Giants Super Bowl was painful but also cathartic.

But yeah, I did the same. I was so furious beyond words.
 

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I did the exact same. God. I was watching with my girlfriend at the time and she had only been watching baseball for basically that summer/fall with me. Then Grady doesn't pull Pedro and she asks "why isn't the pitcher out of the game?"

Anyway, Boone's homer goes up, and before it even hits the bleachers, I walk upstairs, punch a hole in the drywall (the only other time I got "violent" after a loss was G1 of the 1999 ALCS -- I kicked a door in my freshman dorm so hard I had to get crutches to help me walk), and called my Mom.

The next day, I visited my faculty advisor (who's a wonderful person but also a diehard Yankees fan) and I knocked on his office door and he invited me in. We sat there for about 3 minutes in silence before he broke the tension, "You'd think a group of idiots would know that a pitcher was spent, right?" Honestly, I cracked up -- I love that guy, and we stay in touch (he's also a Giants fan, so talking to him after the two Pats/Giants Super Bowl was painful but also cathartic.

But yeah, I did the same. I was so furious beyond words.
This made me think of the other time I got so angry after a Sox loss. It was 2011 and we were in Seattle for the final game. Two days before we were in Baltimore and I almost got kicked out for taunting Carl fucking Crawford.

Anyway the Sox blow the season and I throw a cell phone across my wife’s best friend’s apartment. I hadn’t met her before that day. My wife told me to go to the guest room and stay there the rest of the night because I scared the woman lol
 

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My dad, weeping, said:

"I think I'm going to be a Yankees fan now, being a Sox fan hurts too bad."

As shocking, as terrifying as that was... In that moment I couldn't argue with him.

To make it worse, my brother had a bet with one of his fraternity brothers that whoever lost had to take the other guy to a World Series game. He was looking for tickets before we could even mourn.

We got over it eventually, but it's hard for me to explain to anyone who isn't a longtime member of SoSH just how much 2003 sucked for me and my family.

Thank God for you guys. And thank God for 2004.

Thank God my dad didn't follow through on his weakest moment.
I know it's stupid but the best moments of my life are:

1) birth of my kid
2) 2004 Red Sox title
3) my wedding day

My wife got mad at me when I told her this, but I explained that "you didn't torture me for my entire lifetime and then do the most miraculous thing ever, take it easy."
 

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I married s girl who grew up in a yankee household. Before we tied the knot I made her sign a contract that swore her allegiance to the sox, and that she would never put any sort of yankee garb on any children that we may have. She would never play any part in letting her brother or father bring them to yankee stadium, etc. etc...
We got married in the spring of 2004 and it hung on my wall for years after we were divorced:D
 

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I know it's stupid but the best moments of my life are:

1) birth of my kid
2) 2004 Red Sox title
3) my wedding day

My wife got mad at me when I told her this, but I explained that "you didn't torture me for my entire lifetime and then do the most miraculous thing ever, take it easy."
Jimmy Fallon says hi:
1. Red Sox
2. Sex
3. Breathing
 

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I did the exact same. God. I was watching with my girlfriend at the time and she had only been watching baseball for basically that summer/fall with me. Then Grady doesn't pull Pedro and she asks "why isn't the pitcher out of the game?"

Anyway, Boone's homer goes up, and before it even hits the bleachers, I walk upstairs, punch a hole in the drywall (the only other time I got "violent" after a loss was G1 of the 1999 ALCS -- I kicked a door in my freshman dorm so hard I had to get crutches to help me walk), and called my Mom.

The next day, I visited my faculty advisor (who's a wonderful person but also a diehard Yankees fan) and I knocked on his office door and he invited me in. We sat there for about 3 minutes in silence before he broke the tension, "You'd think a group of idiots would know that a pitcher was spent, right?" Honestly, I cracked up -- I love that guy, and we stay in touch (he's also a Giants fan, so talking to him after the two Pats/Giants Super Bowl was painful but also cathartic.

But yeah, I did the same. I was so furious beyond words.
I had just moved to NYC in the spring of 2003. I stayed at work listening to the game by myself for as long as I could hoping the Sox would just win and be done with it. I finally left work and went to join my friends who were watching at ‘Down the Hatch’ on Christopher st.. I hadn’t even had a drink before Boone hit the home run.. one of my friends was so drunk he started trying to celebrate with me before I told him it was the Yankees.. I walked outside and a dude yelled “they’re never going to beat us.. they’re never going to beat us”.

next day at work a coworker started chanting 1918 to me.. I’ve never been more angry after a sporting event.. so I said “dude.. I don’t know you and you don’t know me, but I’ve never wanted to kick the shit out of a yankee fan more.. so if you want that to happen, keep it up”… fortunately for both of us he stopped.. because I was definitely ready to at least try and back it up.
 

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The day after the 2003 ALCS I attended my cousin's wedding. I was understandably despondent and didn't really care to be around people at that moment. My dad's side of the family consists mostly of MFY fans and my now departed uncle saw me and said "That's what you get for being a Red Sox fan. They'll never win."

After 2004 I called my uncle and got my shots in.
 

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I pushed my Yankee fan boss at the Hooters in Warwick.

I was the young Red Sox fan who didn’t know how to talk to girls. The Yankee fan cooks and our boss figured it would be fun to have a punching bag with them that night.

We all stood when the ball was hit. He was a giant Puerto Rican Shrek, wearing no skid shoes, but because he had a chair behind his legs, my shove caused him to topple over and fall to the ground. From the floor he said, “you fucked up.”

I dropped cash on the table and ran out of there crying. I felt rejected, like I asked a girl out and she said “In your dreams.”

I sat in my car, numb, on Airport Rd in Warwick. I was so unhappy. Twenty years old, single, lonely, incorrectly medicated, in debt, and ready to drop out. None of my dreams ever come true. The Red Sox meant so much to me at that time.

The Red Sox losing to the Yankees, while surrounded by older guys who got a kick out of making me feel sorry for myself, made me want to dissolve into nothingness. The hollow feeling of my life bringing me no joy helped me put stuff into perspective, and motivated me to try new things.

A year later I was a drop out living in NYC. I watched the 19-8 game 3 at a bar on 19th st., sitting next to a Cubs fan and a White Sox fan, both Chicago transplants who worked on Conan and SNL.

They knew the feeling, the sad empty feeling of being a loser that came back that night. But those guys assured me that heartbreak in sports, heartbreak in general, is all part of the human experience. And being human is often humorous. Take a step back and it’s very funny to see grown men cry cuz other grown men lost a game.

I told them about pushing my boss the year prior. They laughed. It was a funny thing to think about. A 6’6” 400lb bald guy getting lifted to his feet by line cooks and Hooters waitresses.

Little did we know, all three of our curses would all be lifted eventually.

I got hired to work on Fever Pitch. I spent the late summer and fall working in Fenway Park. Got to go to cast parties and premiers. Drew Barrymore hugged me more than once; I signed my name on the wall inside the Green Monster. The curse was broken. So much changed in a year.

Sometimes, if you hit rock bottom at the right angle, you can bounce up pretty high.
 
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I married s girl who grew up in a yankee household. Before we tied the knot I made her sign a contract that swore her allegiance to the sox, and that she would never put any sort of yankee garb on any children that we may have. She would never play any part in letting her brother or father bring them to yankee stadium, etc. etc...
We got married in the spring of 2004 and it hung on my wall for years after we were divorced:D
ok. You, my friend, are a boss.
 

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I never saw the Boone home run land, the TV got turned off as soon as it was launched.

I was living in Brooklyn and when I went outside to cool off I heard cheering all around me punctuated by celebratory gunfire. It enraged me further.

Just down the block was an elevated subway line, under which was a playground. Outside the playground fence was an old couch someone had dumped there days earlier. I tore the couch apart with my bare hands, tearing the upholstery to shreds, shredding the wood frame on the curb, and exposing lots of splinters, spring ends, and screw points. I was in a frenzy.

I threw all the pieces of the destroyed couch over the fence into the playground so the children of New York City would know of my pain and suffering, and that theirs was not such a perfect, charmed existence.

I’m feeling much better now.
 

InsideTheParker

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We got over it eventually, but it's hard for me to explain to anyone who isn't a longtime member of SoSH just how much 2003 sucked for me and my family.
I understand completely. I went out to the meadow and screamed and cried. My husband made a snarky remark and I actually considered divorce that night.
We all know, in retrospect, how much sweeter 2004 became in contrast. The main reason I root for the Mets now is that my Mets-fan in-laws were rooting hard for the Sox. The mutuality of NYY-hate brought us together.
 

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I married s girl who grew up in a yankee household. Before we tied the knot I made her sign a contract that swore her allegiance to the sox, and that she would never put any sort of yankee garb on any children that we may have. She would never play any part in letting her brother or father bring them to yankee stadium, etc. etc...
We got married in the spring of 2004 and it hung on my wall for years after we were divorced:D
Similar... I married a Yankee fan and, in a moment of weakness, I allowed her to persuade me that our first son shouldn't have to deal with the likely bullying that would accompany his being a Red Sox fan while attending a New York City public elementary school in the 1998-2003 before-times. Fortunately, by the time my second son came around, I strengthened my resolve and he's a Red Sox fan, so through the century our house has been split 2/2. Every October was like a reality TV show.

My wife was a little upset with how emotional all the men in her life got about our behavior every October, especially in 2003. So headed into October 2004 (the boys were 9 and 11), we drew up a contract with a half-dozen rules, including things like "You can say 'Jeter Sucks' or 'Pedro Sucks', but you can't say your brother sucks", and "No hitting, at least not anywhere besides the shoulders", and "At the end of the series, we still need to be a family." We all signed it and, to the tune of maybe 75%, honored it. I still have it framed in my office.
 

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My wife was a little upset with how emotional all the men in her life got about our behavior every October, especially in 2003. So headed into October 2004 (the boys were 9 and 11), we drew up a contract with a half-dozen rules, including things like "You can say 'Jeter Sucks' or 'Pedro Sucks', but you can't say your brother sucks", and "No hitting, at least not anywhere besides the shoulders", and "At the end of the series, we still need to be a family." We all signed it and, to the tune of maybe 75%, honored it. I still have it framed in my office.
This is the most civilized thing I've ever read on this site. Bravo for your family.
 

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I understand completely. I went out to the meadow and screamed and cried. My husband made a snarky remark and I actually considered divorce that night.
We all know, in retrospect, how much sweeter 2004 became in contrast. The main reason I root for the Mets now is that my Mets-fan in-laws were rooting hard for the Sox. The mutuality of NYY-hate brought us together.
And all this time, I thought it was Iggy.
 

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In-laws can be a powerful thing. My ex is a lifelong New Yorker who was converted to both sports/baseball fandom in general and the Red Sox in particular by my family, especially my cousin's wedding outside Boston during the 07 series. The game broadcast was banned within the wedding venue, so a small group clustered at a car radio in the parking lot and dispatched runners to the house with updates to cheers from the whole crowd. I think it was the pure absurdity of the situation that made it click.
 

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I never saw the Boone home run land, the TV got turned off as soon as it was launched.
....
I’m feeling much better now.
This was me exactly. Was at an Old Chicago with work friends and had already paid up staying to watch the last 2 innings. I walked to my car at the sound of the bat.
 

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Watching The Comeback now.
It’s so hard to watch the near-miss scenes at the start.
So. Much. Pain.

Hope the ending is better.
 

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Episode 1 literally made me feel depressed. Not the depression it caused in 2003 that lasted weeks, but literally made me sad and I know what’s coming. Partly because Wake :/
 

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Just started the first episode. So many a-holes already. It starts with Shaugjnessy’s ugly mug and has Costas spewing extreme Yankee propaganda, a clip of Steinbrenner doing the same, then Clemens talking, the 1986, now Shank is on again. I don’t know if I can watch the rest of this.
 

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At least now they’ve moved on to Theo and Billy Beane and the arrival of Ortiz.
Ugh, more Clemens, now with the Yankees.
We should have a game thread on this.

Also, the Red Sox should NEVER EVER EVER retire Clemens’ number. NEVER EVER EVER. Period.
 
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We just watched the entire doc. No spoilers but I cried a few times, particularly near the end. Very well done.
 

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My wife didn’t watch baseball at all back then, so it was interesting to hear her reactions to all the little details she didn’t know about and interviews the key players gave.

In addition to being amazed at all the twists and turns, she was particularly unimpressed by Grady’s lack of accountability and selective memory. What the fuck, Grady.