If you're a Red Sox fan, you're celebrating the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If you're a Yankees fan, you're lamenting the greatest collapse.

Yankees fans asked, "Who's Your Daddy?" Many of these folks--the ones hurling debris on the field--have trouble with English, so I'll break down the Spanish: Papi--David Ortiz--is daddy. Ortiz beat the Yankees with a two-run bomb in game four. He beat the Yankees with an RBI single in game five. In the deciding game, he put the Red Sox ahead with a two-run homer over the right field wall. This last hit, coming as it did after Johnny Damon got called out at the plate, should not be overlooked amidst the others. It immediately shifted the momentum from the Yankees to the Red Sox, where it stayed the entire game.

Joining Ortiz in Boston sports lore are Johnny Damon, Keith Foulke, and, especially, Curt Schilling, whose bloody-sock performance in game six will go down as one of the most memorable in baseball history.

The 2004 Boston Red Sox have tremendous heart. Perhaps the "idiots" were too stupid to realize that being down three games to zero means the series is over. It meant that for the other twenty-five MLB teams that found themselves in that position. It didn't mean that for the Boston Red Sox.

Just as you've done the last three days, George, you can put the champagne back on ice. You won't be needing it this year. The Red Sox are going to the World Series.

I have never been more happy in my life to see a team play this well!! I had some bouts of nervousness early in the game but in my heart I knew it was our time! Im going to the airport to greet the Sox at 3AM so hopefully this will be a party that never ends!

I just got back from the game, now I just need to get Damon's autograph on my ticket stub right?

I have a 3 month old son.Last night I woke him up to see the end of the game and tell him what a great life he's having so far.The Sox are in the World series and the Patriots can't be beat.
I like being Us.

Gutta be proud of Umass students once again showing they are knuckleheads time and time again. 35 people were arrested in southwest because they wouldnt disperse but they did when the boys in blue tossed pepper spray and smoke balls at them! How many stories like this are we going to read if and when the Sox win the Series? The city of Boston could be in some very big trouble!

Hey, there are and will always be a$$holes out there. What else do pampered college students have to do with their time but to get hammered and act like $hiteheads? They wouldn't want to waste their time studying.

Shouldn't be the topic though.

The Sox completed a truly amazing feat. This is great day for Boston fans.

Fairweather or not, I wouldn't have thunk it. But I am ecstatic that it's happened!

Sox going to the W.S., Pats going for win number 21.

Does it get any better than this????!!!!!

Well, yeah.

Sox could win the W.S., Pats could go to and win the S.B..

But, for now, how great is this?

http://www.boston.com/ae/events/halloween/pumpkin_photos?pg=16

Not enough has been said about D Lowe's performance. His story was every bit that Schilling's was and more. He also overcame an injury to a more vital part of his body-his friggin head. I feel that Schilling's outing was great but the injury angle was overplayed. The Yanks thought so and Torre even said so. Schilling was great in game six and it made for good media, but Lowe's was better.

Yankee fans please ponder this.....what has more, Joe Torre nose hairs or blades of grass covering the vast, beautiful Fenway Park outfield?

I agree with you about Lowe but not about Schilling.

Lowe pitched the game of his life last night and it was a stroke of genius by the manager to put him in knowing he'd be their best shot.

But you can't underestimate the magnitude of Schilling's outing.

Pitching, like hitting, is all about perfect or near perfect mechanics. One little thing goes wrong, your whole performance if off.

Schilling had minor surgery to get him ready to pitch in a much needed performance.

Amazing.

Schilling's story was fantastic and he is a man... However I think that that story drowned out Lowe's performence. Lowe gave up one hit and was masterful, just as he was in relief against Oakland in 2003. Schilling pitched a gutsy game on six days rest but he wasn't dominant (albeit because of his injury). Lowe pitched on two days rest and dominated the Yankees. I am not taking anything away from Curt, I just think that D Lowe story was every bit as dramatic; and was lost in the Schilling legend.

Your BoSox against my Cards. What a series

Oatmeal I have to agree with you but at the same time disagree. You lost me when you said it was a stroke of genius when management made the call for Schilling to start? When you win 21 games in the regular season and your name is Curt Shilling, you make the call if you have anything you can give to the team. Anything to the rest of the staff or many men in baseball today equals what Shilling has on most days, not to mention a win or go home scenario. Schilling got through that game with heart and determination. Well and prehaps some benifits of modern medicine. Lowe on the other hand pitched a fantastic game, on that will be remembered forever if the Sox dont reach another World Series before our children watch their own grow up! It is important to take a few facts into your opinion before true justice takes place. If Lowe wasn't angry about being bumped from the rotation would he have pitched with the same intensity knowing his problems with pitching on the road? Also on the pessimistic side of viewing Lowe, you have to remember this is a contract year for him and anything short of spectacular would cost him millions of dollars after publicly voicing his opinion before the ALCS began. Doing what he did forced him to put his money where his mouth is for which he did. However in my mind all he did was earn a spot in the rotation in the World Series against St.Louis as opposed to Schilling who defyed all odds by A.)pitching at all after his outing in game one B.)pitching in game 6 with such effectivness after believing he could be done for the series. Maybe its me but I truly believe that Shillings performance will be remembered more in years to come than Lowes' even though he pitched lights out?

doesn't equal what Schilling has on most days! Sorry!

How can any self respecting Red Sox fan be a GW Bush voter?

How can any self respecting member of Apu's family like him?

Uncle Lavender's question doesn't make any sense, gramatically or otherwise, but even Yankee fans (of whom I am one) will admit that Joe Torre made a mistake bringing Vasques in when he did.

I won't say, as others are saying, that Torre is a good "team" manager but that Billy Martin was better between the bases, because this is the first such mistake of this magnitude that I've ever seen Torre make.

Even following the game on my little Yahoo page that refreshes every 45 seconds over here in Europe, I had to groan aloud when this happened.

I must say, though: I think all this talk about the curse being broken is premature.

When you guys win the world series, and I actually hope you do win, if only for Petey's sake, so he can die happy (or for no other reason than that there will be an end to all this whining, "we never win," the next time you lose), then you can talk about the curse being broken. Not before.

If you lose the World Series, especially in a painful way (e.g., in seven games), then for all I can see, the curse is still in effect, even if you managed to get by the Yankees for a year.

Also, this talk of the "evil empire" -- which strangely enough many sports writers seem to have taken up as gospel -- is Quatsch (that's German for BS). Anyone who has lived through The Great Yankees World Series Drought (1979 - 1996), when the Yankees got to the World Series only once and lost to Valenzuela and the Dodgers in '81, and especially if you grew up during that drought, you don't complain (because you're not a sissie), but you also can tell that the Yankees are no empire, no dynasty, and you appreciate what Torre has put together along with Cashman in the last eight years, because you know that -- if the Boss gets ants in his pants -- it could well me another 20 years before you see the World Series again.

If you want to call it an evil empire because it makes you feel more heroic, go ahead. But it's just not true.

DPO

I dont think I have ever in my thirty years of life used the words evil empire to identify the Yankees? I usually just call them the Yankees or the F-in Yanks but never this foolish Evil Empire that fans of the Yankees made up anyway!
Go off into the long offseason with all the quatsch you printed in here and just become a Redsox fan already!!!!!

In September 1978, while out for dinner at our favorite Chinese restaurant, my Mom let me watch one of my beloved Yankees' 4 consecutive must-win wins over the Bosox from the adjoining bar.

I also loyally watched Bucky Dent "go downtown" over the Green Monster a few weeks later on our beat-up black&white tv.

Multiply that by 100 (or 86, or 4,000,000 or whatever) and I guess that approximates what Bostonians and large swaths of the rest of the country felt last October. I tip my Yankee cap to The Greatest Comeback Ever.