Which is the worse of the 2 NY Yankees failures.?

Question

Yankees losing to the Diamondbacks in the 2001 WS and failing to give their New Yorkers a little reason to smile after being so down after 911.


Yankees losing to the Red Sox in the 2004 ALCS after being up 3-0?

Answer 1

BOTH!

Answer 2

While the '01 series was very disappointing, it was a great series and The D_backs deserved it, the disappointment came from the fact that as a Yankee fan, until that point, once Mariano took the mound you assumed it was game over. That being said, the '04 ALCS was by far not only our biggest failure but possibly the biggest failure in the history of baseball. However I cannot agree with your "little reason to smile", what other team has given they're fans the chance to see as many great players as the Yankees and been to the postseason for 10 straight years ????

Answer 3

See, this is why Yankees fans are so insufferable -- taking the World Series to Game 7 JUST IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH if it ends in defeat. Good grief, there are teams out there whose fans would be tickled sick with a mere wild card berth. (That Series should have ended in five with Arizona winning anyway; the Yankees really did not play well, but got a few extremely fortuitous homers. Well, that does happen.)

Forty years in the desert would do these people some good.

Anyway... the 2004 ALCS got a name attached to it, and a good one -- The Greatest Choke In Baseball History -- so I'd go with that. One inning from winning and advancing, at the very brink, and Boston fought all the way back in unprecedented style.

Answer 4

The latter. The Diamondbacks played very well in the WS, and had Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling dominate the Yanks every time they pitched, whereas the Yankees were destroying the Red Sox for 3 straight games and then just fell apart.

Answer 5

The Sox series. A dark day in Yankees history.

Answer 6

Its the Red Sox series in '04. They should of won that series especially after the killing they put on them in game three. They were facing a tired team with an overworked pitching staff. That collapse was historic, since no other team in history has ever lost a 3-0 lead. The fact that it happened against their biggest rival made it hurt that much more....

Answer 7

Any time the Yankees lose anything gives me reason to smile. Needless to say I've been smiling alot this season, and I'll be smiling even more after Clemens gets to the Bronx, as I see him getting mauled and booed out of town.

04 was the not only the biggest collapse in baseball history, but ultimately the biggest collapse in the history of all sports. It has even topped, according to Catholic Bishops, when David slew Goliath.

Answer 8

Red Sox. No baseball team had blown that lead before. Ever. And for the Yankees to do it against hated division rival Boston is just that much more worse.

Answer 9

Well, being a Red Sox fan, I would have to say the second one is my favorite, especially because it didn't involve thousands of people dying, just one. But after 9/11 was definitely the bigger one. They needed to win.

Answer 10

RED SOX losing in Four Straight they had a Three to Nothing lead on them and Lost, who does that.

Answer 11

their worst failure was paying jason giambi more money than they could have had barry bonds for. Barry flat out said he would play for them for 6 yerar 90 million in 01 and they paid giambi instead. STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!! they win in 04 and a couple other times if they put their money in the right place Your scenerio's were only one loss each. Not paying bonds cost them at least 5.