I Agree With Man From The Balcony, Aaron Boone Moment The Worst

Aaron Boone hit the most crushing homerun in the history of Red Sox baseball. People were depressed in 1986, they were crushed when the Sox lost in 1975, but nothing came close to the pain and agony that hit every Sox fan when Tim Wakefield gave up an extra inning homerun to Boone in Game 7 of the ALCS. A game that the Sox had. A game that would have propelled the Sox to the series for the first time in my people's generation. I am 25 years old, and 1986 doesn't count because we were all too young. (That being said, from doing thorough research '86 was tragic, and '75 was just a whirlwind loss! '86 was painful, but it made the next 18 years of losing baseball even more upsetting. If '86 didn't occur, then the Boone incident wouldn't have been so scarring.)

There has been no worse moment in our city's history than that one. It doesn't matter that we won in 2004 or 2007, the only moment that mattered at the time was the 2003 failure Sox squad. The team that had a big lead in game 7, yet pissed it away.

I watched that game at Merrimack College with Man From The Balcony. He smashed the wooden chair he was sitting on against the wall. It shattered into a million pieces. I didn't see the ball leave the park until three weeks later. Once I saw the camera zoom up into the stands, I walked away. I didn't turn on sportscenter for a week (swear to God!), and I didn't read the Globe or Herald for two weeks. That is some serious shit. I am still pissed talking about it right now. I have to stop writing or I will flip out. Nothing enrages me more than this moment, that is why it is certainly the worst moment of the decade. I would go further and say 'it is the worst moment in the history of Boston sports.'