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The 85 year and counting long championship drought of the Red Sox after the trade of Babe Ruth to the Yankees (this drought was broken a year later)
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00:00:00Whoops, that's too far.
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00:00:15The following is a special presentation of HBO's Sports of the Twentieth Century.
00:00:22Hmm, hmm.
00:00:28Here's what I want on my tombstone.
00:00:30He never lived long enough to see the Red Sox win it all.
00:00:37People will understand, whether it's 50 years from now, or 100 years from now, or 1,000 years from now,
00:00:43they'll understand that message.
00:00:46They won this World Series the next year.
00:00:55There is something mystical about this franchise.
00:00:58When Pesky got the ball and they turned around to throw, he didn't know where to throw it to.
00:01:06Why didn't Enos Slaughter stop at third base?
00:01:10Something was working against them, something beyond the control and the understanding of anybody.
00:01:14Why are you throwing that type of pitch in a game like this?
00:01:20I blame the curse.
00:01:25There was a better chance that a boat was going to fall out of the sky than Bucky Dent was going to hit a home run.
00:01:32There is some kind of a curse.
00:01:34There is some kind of a curse.
00:01:39All these things cannot be coincidences.
00:01:41If you go through the obituaries, you'll see a lot of Red Sox references.
00:01:48Remember them winning in 1918.
00:01:50I hoped it would happen in their lifetime and it didn't.
00:01:53Until they do, you look at the weird things that happen.
00:01:56I do think there's a curse because you can't get that close that many times and fail.
00:02:04You probably do.
00:02:08It just couldn't have really happened.
00:02:11It had to have been a movie or somebody's idea of a cruel joke.
00:02:15Every year, it gets more and more mystifying.
00:02:22It really started with the trading of Babe Ruth and it continues to this very day.
00:02:38You grow up in this town.
00:02:40Your parents are Red Sox fans.
00:02:45Your grandparents are Red Sox fans.
00:02:50Red Sox fans, you become a Red Sox fan.
00:02:53And you get tortured for the rest of your life.
00:02:57Being a Red Sox fan is like a Charles Dickens novel.
00:03:01Everyone is just trying to survive the situation.
00:03:05For me, there's a psychological war in my own mind dealing with each season.
00:03:10Did you just say 1986 to me?
00:03:15The assumption that something bad will happen.
00:03:22That every Red Sox ship has a leak and every leak is big enough to sink the ship.
00:03:27Every year you say, well, they're not going to get me again.
00:03:30They're not going to get me again.
00:03:31Then all of a sudden, you go, I think this is it.
00:03:36And they got you again.
00:03:37And then, bango, you're in the toilet again.
00:03:40It's almost an existential motif, the myth of Sisyphus, where you're rolling that rock
00:03:47up a hill and you think you're finally there.
00:03:49It rolls right down again.
00:03:55Everybody remembers the story of Job.
00:03:56Job is this guy whose life is going great.
00:03:58And all of a sudden, he loses all his property.
00:04:01His children are sick.
00:04:03The Red Sox are Job.
00:04:04You know, this is a Jobian existence.
00:04:07Everything's going fine.
00:04:08This loss, but crushing, crushing, crushing loss.
00:04:16It's like watching The Wizard of Oz, and then Dorothy dies at the end.
00:04:19You know, doesn't this die?
00:04:20She's like ripped apart by the flying monkeys, and Toto eats her remains.
00:04:23And the end credits roll.
00:04:26Masochism.
00:04:28It's masochism.
00:04:30It's sadomasochism.
00:04:33If the good guy dies in the end in every production since 1918, you might get a little fatalistic,
00:04:39don't you think?
00:04:40No.
00:04:41For more than 100 years, the Boston Red Sox, my team, have been the most interesting in baseball.
00:04:58With a rich and often painful past that's been both complex and endearing.
00:05:04Fabric of each of the six New England states.
00:05:07It's story embedded in generations.
00:05:20Baseball is a religion in New England.
00:05:22Our cathedral, a ballpark, built in 1912.
00:05:26that is as famous as the team itself.
00:05:31And Wade Park.
00:05:35Given the Red Sox's success throughout the years, it's hard to believe
00:05:38since my team's won the World Series.
00:05:43Four times, the Sox have taken the Fall Classic to its limit.
00:05:49All four times, they've lost.
00:05:58They've lost games.
00:05:59Perhaps a powerful force from the past has cursed our storied franchise.
00:06:03What else could have explained has followed our team since the heady days.
00:06:27Very same Boston Red Sox, who have disappointed us with such regularity.
00:06:32We're launched as a dynasty.
00:06:36He had a few titles in the 19...
00:06:38When Ban Johnson created the American League,
00:06:41he determined very early on that the team in Boston was going to be one of his flagship franchises.
00:06:47Boston had this aura that they were the team that was always going to win.
00:06:52One way or another, Boston was going to come out on top.
00:06:57With great pitching and defense, Boston won five of the first games.
00:07:02First 15 World Series, including 1903, with the immortal Cy Young on the mound.
00:07:09In 1912, the Sox christened Fenway Park with a second championship,
00:07:15and won again in 1915, 1916, and 1918.
00:07:20The pitching star of that team was Babe Ruth, who the Sox had bought from an industrial league in Baltimore in 1914.
00:07:30Ruth was only 19 years old, but he won big right away.
00:07:34He won 18 games.
00:07:37Next year, 1960 and 1917, he won 23 and 24 games.
00:07:43In the World Series in 1918, he pitched a shutout,
00:07:47and then pitched seven scoreless innings to extend his scoreless streak to 29 innings,
00:07:54which was the record for more than 40 years.
00:07:56He was a sensational pitcher, but his hitting began to take over.
00:08:02In 1919, the Babe led the American League with 29 home runs,
00:08:07which was more than all but five teams in baseball.
00:08:11Ruth was the Red Sox principal attraction, the team's biggest draw.
00:08:14But prior to the 1920 season, Boston owner Harry Frazee, a New York theater producer,
00:08:21sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
00:08:24That single transaction, perhaps the most famous and curious in sports history,
00:08:31defined the Red Sox franchise.
00:08:34And Frazee, from that moment on, he was pegged.
00:08:37Boston's all-time villain, the buffoon who peddled the Babe.
00:08:41He cared more about his theater ventures than he did his baseball team,
00:08:47and saw a chance to get a lot of cash, and had to go with it.
00:08:53It was sad news.
00:08:55They were taking all their chance of winning in the big leagues out of their hands.
00:09:00They were turning it over to New York.
00:09:04New York never was able to beat the Red Sox before this.
00:09:10And the Red Sox?
00:09:11The Red Sox could never have beaten New York after the sale, either.
00:09:16Ruth goes there, they build the ballpark, and they become this dynasty.
00:09:23Frazee's name becomes Mud, and the Red Sox go the exact opposite direction.
00:09:27They become the worst they ever were.
00:09:30I don't think they saw...
00:09:31In terms of his obligation to the fans, I don't see how he can be defended.
00:09:38Almost everything that people think they know about Harry Frazee is thoroughly incorrect.
00:09:43According to the legend, Frazee was this failed theatrical producer,
00:09:48was just a real screw-up, who bought the Red Sox,
00:09:52and didn't really have the money to do it,
00:09:54really didn't care about baseball.
00:09:55He's broke, he needs to pay his bills, and he has no money.
00:10:00So he sold Babe Ruth, it's the only big commodity.
00:10:03So they sell him for money so that they can fund a play in New York.
00:10:07I mean, it's ludicrous.
00:10:09The play didn't come out two years later.
00:10:12He took the money, and he produced a musical called No No Nanette.
00:10:19Not only do I hate that musical, but I hate all musicals.
00:10:24I remember as a kid, I hated Nanette Fabray,
00:10:27and whenever I heard her name, I'd go,
00:10:28Ah, hate her.
00:10:31Hate her.
00:10:31Just based on the first name.
00:10:34If there was no play, then we could have kept him for the whole time.
00:10:38And it's just so bad that they had to trade him just for this one play.
00:10:43Nashua, New Hampshire.
00:10:44Triple H is from Nashua, New Hampshire.
00:10:48Harry Frazee was sitting in a taxi,
00:10:50and he was bragging that he sold Ruth,
00:10:52and the cab driver slammed the brakes,
00:10:54pulled him out, and punched him in the nose.
00:10:56All of that is incorrect.
00:10:57The notion that Ruth was sold to produce No No Nanette,
00:11:01which wasn't on Broadway for five more years.
00:11:04It's just absurd.
00:11:05But Harry Frazee becomes the perfect patsy in this town,
00:11:08because he's from New York, and he's dead.
00:11:12Whether or not one is wild about Harry,
00:11:15there's little dispute that the babe's behavior in Boston,
00:11:19on and off the field,
00:11:20had become difficult to tolerate.
00:11:23The area around the Fenway was a notorious red light district.
00:11:27Day after day, night after night,
00:11:29he'd go into these brothels,
00:11:30he'd have his fun, wine, women, and song,
00:11:33and he'd be thrown into the alleys behind the places,
00:11:36and they'd have to pick him up every day
00:11:37and haul him to the ballpark.
00:11:40He also, at various points,
00:11:42would try to politic for changes in management of the team.
00:11:46He would jump the club to go play an exhibition
00:11:48that would fill his own pocket with $400 or $500,
00:11:51and he did so repeatedly and regularly.
00:11:581919 comes along,
00:11:59the Red Sox are out of the race,
00:12:01he doesn't want to pitch anymore,
00:12:02and he's also hitting $200.
00:12:04The season's over.
00:12:05Ruth is a total bust.
00:12:08Now, he goes on from June 1st
00:12:11through the remainder of the year,
00:12:12hits 27 home runs.
00:12:14No one's ever done this before,
00:12:15and none of it means anything
00:12:16in terms of the Red Sox record.
00:12:18They finish sixth.
00:12:20At the time the deal is made,
00:12:2120 long-time Boston baseball figures
00:12:24are asked,
00:12:26is this a good deal or not?
00:12:28To a man,
00:12:29they think Frazee is doing the smart thing.
00:12:32You're being offered more money
00:12:33than anybody's been offered for a player before.
00:12:38Take it.
00:12:40Frazee comes out
00:12:41and gives a very lengthy defense of his actions here.
00:12:44The Yankees are taking quite a gamble,
00:12:45is one of his quotes.
00:12:46It's 26 world championships to zero
00:12:49since the Yankees took that big gamble,
00:12:51so this hasn't gone well
00:12:52since that deal went down.
00:12:54That gap,
00:12:56the almost incomprehensible divide
00:12:58between the fortunes of the two close rivals,
00:13:01has left those of us in Boston
00:13:03to think about it.
00:13:04Understandably,
00:13:05if you saw those championship flags,
00:13:08you'd be jealous too.
00:13:09You have to have a villain
00:13:12in all great shows.
00:13:14And the Yankees are the villain.
00:13:16The Yankees are evil.
00:13:17They're oil.
00:13:18They're insurance companies.
00:13:20They're everything that we don't like in our life.
00:13:24Huh.
00:13:24I mean hate,
00:13:26like hatred,
00:13:27like that bad quality in human beings to hate.
00:13:29I hate them.
00:13:31I hate Yankee fans.
00:13:33I hate their team.
00:13:35I'm filled with rage.
00:13:38If you had said to my dad
00:13:39that one day
00:13:40we would watch Wade Boggs
00:13:42riding a horse
00:13:43around Yankee Stadium
00:13:46to celebrate his championship
00:13:48with the Yankees,
00:13:49his head would have blown up.
00:13:51If I had the chance,
00:13:53I'd go down to Yankee Stadium
00:13:54and rip all the monuments down,
00:13:56take all the flags,
00:13:58bring them back to Boston
00:13:59like a pillaging marauder.
00:14:02He likes the Yankees hard.
00:14:04Well, I mean,
00:14:05how do you get along?
00:14:06You don't.
00:14:07Huh.
00:14:08The Patriots won the Super Bowl.
00:14:09After the Patriots won,
00:14:10the people were so excited
00:14:11that they had this impromptu party going on.
00:14:13And in the middle of it,
00:14:14a Yankee suck chair broke out.
00:14:15Yankee suck!
00:14:17Yankee suck!
00:14:18Yankee suck!
00:14:20Yankee suck!
00:14:21I guarantee you
00:14:21that if the Giants win the Super Bowl,
00:14:23nobody's chanting
00:14:23Boston sucks in Times Square.
00:14:25Yankee suck!
00:14:27Yankee suck!
00:14:29Yankee suck!
00:14:29I'm kind of looking around
00:14:30wondering what prompted this.
00:14:32Well, a few beers
00:14:34and 80 years of failure
00:14:35is what prompts it.
00:14:37In those 80 years of failure,
00:14:39many at the hands of the Yankees.
00:14:41Seasons come and seasons go.
00:14:43But not 1978.
00:14:46This is supposed to be
00:14:47the best team they've ever had.
00:14:49They're just blowing everybody out.
00:14:50Just pedal to the metal.
00:14:53The Red Sox couldn't do anything wrong.
00:14:55The Yankees couldn't do anything right.
00:15:00I was working in Jacksonville, Florida.
00:15:02And when the Red Sox were 14 and a half games in front,
00:15:06I decided to quit my job down there
00:15:08to come home
00:15:09because I wanted to be at home
00:15:11when the Red Sox finally won the whole thing.
00:15:13Everything seemed great.
00:15:15And then...
00:15:16September came
00:15:17and somebody turned the baseball world upside down.
00:15:22It was a gradual decline,
00:15:25like somebody with a disease
00:15:26getting sicker by the day.
00:15:28The Yankees started crawling up at the standings.
00:15:30The Red Sox were creeping down.
00:15:32You could hear them coming.
00:15:34You could see them coming.
00:15:35You knew that it was going to come out of that
00:15:36before Game 3 in September.
00:15:38The Yankees rolled into town,
00:15:39scored like 100,000 runs.
00:15:45Took their bats from the on-deck circle
00:15:47and beat each member of the Red Sox
00:15:49over the head with them.
00:15:50It was ugly.
00:15:52It's forever been known as the Boston Massacre.
00:15:54The Yankees outscored the Sox 42-9
00:16:01in that four-game sweep.
00:16:03We were down but not out
00:16:04and fought back to tie the Yankees
00:16:06on the last day of the season.
00:16:08That set up a one-game playoff.
00:16:10New York versus Boston at Fenway.
00:16:14The winner takes the division.
00:16:16After six, the Sox led 2-0.
00:16:19Then in seventh, with two on and two out,
00:16:22up comes the unimposing Bucky Dent.
00:16:24Tingenes is somewhat here at Fenway.
00:16:29With two out in the shortstop,
00:16:30Bucky Dent coming up.
00:16:32I can remember that moment
00:16:33when Bucky Dent came up and thinking,
00:16:35this is no problem.
00:16:37You know, we're out of the inning.
00:16:40Bounce this pitch off his foot.
00:16:41He's hopping around like the three students
00:16:43were all laughing at him.
00:16:44I mean, just waiting for the guy to get put away.
00:16:46But Dent, the previous pitch,
00:16:48broke his bat.
00:16:49The previous pitch, broke his bat.
00:16:51It was a long pause
00:16:53while they went to get into the bat.
00:16:54It was both the pitchers warming up.
00:16:56While he was putting the pine tire on it,
00:16:59instead of warming up,
00:17:00Torres is just standing there.
00:17:02He's gazing around,
00:17:04looking at the crowd.
00:17:05La-dee-da-dee-da.
00:17:10And as soon as Dent gets back
00:17:11into the batter's box,
00:17:12guess what, guess what?
00:17:16Dent had hit four home runs
00:17:18that year.
00:17:2622 in his six-year career,
00:17:28and he was a 255 hitter.
00:17:31And as soon as the ball lofted into the air,
00:17:42it's a pop-up.
00:17:43It's a fly ball.
00:17:44Everybody thought it was a fly ball.
00:17:45But then it started to sail,
00:17:47drifts and sail,
00:17:48and drifts and sail.
00:17:49Yastrzemski goes back.
00:17:50Oh, no.
00:17:51He goes back.
00:17:51Oh, no.
00:17:52He's right next to the wall.
00:17:54And it just dropped
00:17:56into the screen
00:17:57ever so softly.
00:17:58All hit hard to left field.
00:18:02Yastrzemski goes back.
00:18:03He looks up.
00:18:03It's going to be out of here.
00:18:05A home run for Bucky Dent.
00:18:08You can see Yastrzemski's knees buckle.
00:18:11He physically slumps
00:18:12as if he'd been punched in the stomach.
00:18:15And then I saw him go down to his knees
00:18:16and punch the ground,
00:18:18and it was like the air
00:18:19went out of the ballpark.
00:18:22It was this incredible silence.
00:18:24You could actually hear
00:18:25Steinbrenner clapping by the dugout.
00:18:27It was so quiet
00:18:28elsewhere in the park.
00:18:29It was amazing,
00:18:30and of all the hitters,
00:18:30this guy had hit
00:18:31four home runs all year.
00:18:32Yep.
00:18:33Bucky Dent.
00:18:34Bucky Dent was like
00:18:35some utility schmo.
00:18:37And obviously,
00:18:38he's just become
00:18:39part of the language
00:18:40up here in Boston.
00:18:41Bucky Dent.
00:18:42Bucky Dent!
00:18:43The name sounds like a swear,
00:18:44doesn't it?
00:18:44Bucky Dent.
00:18:45You Bucky Dent.
00:18:46You Bucky Dent bastard.
00:18:47Yeah, Jesus.
00:18:49Russell Burden Dent.
00:18:49He has a new middle name,
00:18:50which you're not allowed
00:18:51to say on TV.
00:18:52Bucky Bleepin' Dent.
00:18:53Bucky Bleepin' Dent.
00:18:54Maybe you can say it on HBO.
00:18:55Bucky fuckin' Dent.
00:18:56Ha ha!
00:18:58Every time I go up there,
00:18:59they always put my
00:19:01middle initial up there.
00:19:02You know, BF Dent.
00:19:06As if Dent's homer
00:19:08wasn't torture enough,
00:19:09the game would rest
00:19:10in the arms of our hero,
00:19:12Carl Yastrinsky.
00:19:13Two down,
00:19:14Burleson in third,
00:19:16five to four,
00:19:16Yankees,
00:19:17bottom of the ninth inning.
00:19:18And he pops it up.
00:19:22Greg Nettles.
00:19:23He makes the catch.
00:19:24The headline of the people was
00:19:26Destiny 5,
00:19:28Red Sox 4.
00:19:30And I thought,
00:19:32that says it all.
00:19:33October 2nd, 1978,
00:19:35is a gloomy day
00:19:36for the Boston Red Sox.
00:19:38That hurts a lot.
00:19:38But Destiny's team.
00:19:45Fate and fortune
00:19:47and divine intervention.
00:19:49Others have that.
00:19:50Not us.
00:19:52Providence.
00:19:53That's in Rhode Island.
00:19:54Doomsday prophecies.
00:19:57Infamous figures.
00:19:59Acts of chronic folly.
00:20:01Now that's Red Sox baseball.
00:20:03Hmm.
00:20:04Hmm.
00:20:04Most folks believe
00:20:05you can trace the start
00:20:06of the Sox misfortune
00:20:07to the 46th series.
00:20:09Game 7.
00:20:10Johnny Pesky holds the ball
00:20:12for a split second
00:20:13while Enis Slaughter
00:20:14scores the series winning run
00:20:16all the way from first.
00:20:17What are you doing?
00:20:19How many times
00:20:20does that happen?
00:20:22Two years later,
00:20:23Denny Galehouse
00:20:23was mysteriously picked
00:20:25to start a playoff game
00:20:26against the Indians.
00:20:27Why him?
00:20:28A nobody
00:20:29while other more worthy
00:20:30pitchers sat.
00:20:31They got crushed.
00:20:32Of course, Denny was bombed.
00:20:33The Indians went
00:20:34to the 48th series
00:20:35and the Red Sox went home.
00:20:39How about Louie Aparicio?
00:20:41A guy the Sox got
00:20:42for his legs,
00:20:43slipping as he heads for home.
00:20:45Instead of scoring,
00:20:46Louie scrambles back,
00:20:47finds a confused Yaz
00:20:49at third,
00:20:50and the 72 pennant
00:20:51goes up in smoke.
00:20:52Sadly, there's more.
00:20:55Who else but the Sox
00:20:56could dream
00:20:56the impossible dream,
00:20:58then wake up
00:20:59and be reminded
00:21:00of the nightmare,
00:21:01the horror of seeing
00:21:02Tony Conigliaro,
00:21:04New England's own
00:21:04Tony C.
00:21:06His career shattered
00:21:07in the blink of an eye.
00:21:09Same.
00:21:11And what other team
00:21:12could take one
00:21:13of the great moments
00:21:14in World Series history,
00:21:16stay fair,
00:21:16stay fair,
00:21:18and trump that October man
00:21:19lost in it
00:21:20with October misery.
00:21:24Bad karma,
00:21:26poor choices,
00:21:27rotten luck,
00:21:28whatever.
00:21:29Like I said,
00:21:30that's Red Sox baseball.
00:21:35Fans see them
00:21:36as a continuum
00:21:37in this long soap opera
00:21:41comic tragedy
00:21:42that's unfolded
00:21:43over the last 80 years.
00:21:48There is some connection
00:21:50between what happens now
00:21:52and what happened
00:21:52in 1978
00:21:53and what happened
00:21:54in 1949
00:21:55and what happened
00:21:56in 1919.
00:21:59There is some
00:22:00common thread
00:22:01that runs through here.
00:22:04I believe it.
00:22:05Why do all these
00:22:05bad things happen
00:22:06to the Red Sox?
00:22:07All these things
00:22:08cannot be coincidences.
00:22:11There's some
00:22:12higher power at work.
00:22:14There's a conspiracy
00:22:14here somewhere.
00:22:15I had no idea
00:22:16where that ball was.
00:22:18It was in the Sun.
00:22:18This would have turned it around.
00:22:20Or else you could have
00:22:20possibly scored
00:22:21if the ball gets by
00:22:22and you see if you cover it.
00:22:23There is some kind
00:22:24of a curse.
00:22:26There is a curse.
00:22:27Do I believe in curses?
00:22:29In my business?
00:22:31A little bit.
00:22:32That man in a terrible
00:22:33hit right there!
00:22:35Oh, man.
00:22:36Never should have
00:22:37traded Ruth, man.
00:22:39Never should have
00:22:39traded him.
00:22:40He cursed us.
00:22:42It's the only thing
00:22:43that seems out there.
00:22:45You know,
00:22:45different players
00:22:46have come and gone,
00:22:47different general managers.
00:22:49The one thing
00:22:50that never changes
00:22:51is Babe Ruth,
00:22:53who's defamed,
00:22:54the greatest ball player
00:22:55who ever lived.
00:22:55George Evans on the track
00:22:57and the ball
00:22:58leaping,
00:22:59he can't get it.
00:23:01And all you really
00:23:01have to do
00:23:02is look at
00:23:02Dwight Evans
00:23:03for the whole story.
00:23:04It's worth more
00:23:05than a thousand work.
00:23:07When you come
00:23:07this close
00:23:08as many times,
00:23:09you just start
00:23:09to look toward
00:23:10the larger forces.
00:23:10That's what the curse
00:23:11is about.
00:23:12Superstition over science.
00:23:14It's just a fun
00:23:15way to explain
00:23:16the unexplainable,
00:23:17which is the Red Sox.
00:23:19The classic case
00:23:20a couple years ago,
00:23:20Pedro Martinez
00:23:21calls out the Babe
00:23:22for no apparent reason.
00:23:23I don't believe
00:23:24in them curses.
00:23:26Wake up to them Bambino
00:23:27and have me face them.
00:23:28Maybe I'll drill him
00:23:29in the eye.
00:23:31Pedro gets hurt,
00:23:32never wins another game
00:23:33the rest of the year.
00:23:33Don't be taunting
00:23:34the big guy.
00:23:37That's why you believe
00:23:38in the curse.
00:23:39Whether or not
00:23:39you choose to believe
00:23:40in the afterlife,
00:23:41or in this case,
00:23:42the curse of the Bambino,
00:23:44this much is true.
00:23:45In the Red Sox nation,
00:23:47there are those
00:23:47who are obsessed
00:23:48with its possibility
00:23:49and others so sure
00:23:51it exists,
00:23:52they are fanatic
00:23:53about having
00:23:53the curse reversed.
00:24:00They should get together
00:24:02with the owners
00:24:02and some voodoo people
00:24:04and figure out
00:24:04what to do.
00:24:05We need to get
00:24:06some experts
00:24:06and come up with something
00:24:08that's going to
00:24:08take the curse off.
00:24:10Hey, Mr. Babe,
00:24:11please give us a break.
00:24:14How much more
00:24:15can the Red Sox fans take
00:24:17in the annals of age?
00:24:19baseball,
00:24:20none can be worse
00:24:21than the terrible tale
00:24:23of Babe Ruth's curse.
00:24:26Every year some-
00:24:27No, you know what?
00:24:28They actually deserve
00:24:29the curse for playing
00:24:30country music
00:24:31in Massachusetts.
00:24:34Somebody does something.
00:24:34They had Father Guido
00:24:35Sarducci exercising
00:24:37the spirit.
00:24:38I guarantee next year
00:24:40Boston win the horses.
00:24:41In the annals of baseball,
00:24:43none can be worse
00:24:45than the terrible tale
00:24:47of Babe Ruth's curse.
00:24:50All the fans agree
00:24:51the trade will be
00:24:52One priest who was asked
00:24:54to perform an exorcism
00:24:55which they haven't done
00:24:55for several centuries.
00:24:57So please let us win.
00:24:59This has sprawled
00:24:59into so many things.
00:25:04Can you believe this?
00:25:07A play based on the
00:25:09misfortunes of the Red Sox.
00:25:10Ouch!
00:25:10I can't take it anymore!
00:25:13And they call it,
00:25:14what else?
00:25:15The curse of the Bambino.
00:25:17Let's face it,
00:25:18some of the best theater
00:25:19has been based in tragedy.
00:25:21You better watch out,
00:25:22Harry,
00:25:22because the Babe
00:25:23is leaving town!
00:25:24They grabbed the train
00:25:26and left
00:25:26that old bean town.
00:25:28When I was going
00:25:28to Mount Everest base camp,
00:25:30I said to my wife,
00:25:31I'm going to talk
00:25:31to the llama
00:25:32over in Nepal.
00:25:33And I said,
00:25:34this guy's got
00:25:34incredible powers.
00:25:35And I told him,
00:25:36I want to break
00:25:36the curse of the Bambino.
00:25:38And he told me
00:25:39what to do.
00:25:39Put the Red Sox cap
00:25:40on the summit,
00:25:41which he blessed,
00:25:42and take the Yankees cap
00:25:43back down the base camp
00:25:44and burn it
00:25:45as an offering
00:25:45to the gods.
00:25:47The Red Sox
00:25:48were still in first place
00:25:49and then they fell apart.
00:25:55The symbolic aspect
00:25:56of the balloon
00:25:58was the lifting
00:25:59symbolically of the curse.
00:26:01Ah, but like the Sox,
00:26:02the balloon was going nowhere.
00:26:04Perhaps we didn't
00:26:04have time.
00:26:11You had to have
00:26:11kind of a mass
00:26:12curse removal festival.
00:26:16Kiss the ground
00:26:16that Babe
00:26:17is being grown in.
00:26:18That's what we were
00:26:19trying to provide
00:26:20was a place
00:26:20where people could come
00:26:21and walk around the Babe
00:26:23and walk to the Babe's hat
00:26:24and the Babe's eyes
00:26:25and up through his nose
00:26:27and his broad shoulders.
00:26:29And, you know,
00:26:29maybe by giving the Babe
00:26:30a little walking over,
00:26:31you could help lift the spirits.
00:26:33As soon as we opened
00:26:35with the Babe,
00:26:36we had bad weather,
00:26:37we had vandalism,
00:26:38we've never had vandalism before.
00:26:40We became cursed,
00:26:41I think,
00:26:41a little bit
00:26:41for trying to exercise
00:26:43the curse.
00:26:45It's a serene spot
00:26:46west of Boston
00:26:47that may just hold
00:26:48the key
00:26:48to the curse
00:26:49of the Bambino.
00:26:50It is well documented
00:26:51that Babe Ruth
00:26:52rented this cottage
00:26:54here in Sudbury
00:26:54during his time
00:26:55at the Red Sox
00:26:56and he loved to party
00:26:57with family and friends here.
00:26:58We also understand
00:26:59sometime during the winter
00:27:00of 1917, 1918,
00:27:02he was hanging around
00:27:03the piano
00:27:04playing with friends
00:27:05as well as his wife
00:27:06when he suddenly thought
00:27:07it would be hilarious
00:27:08to somehow get that piano
00:27:09from the cottage
00:27:10down to the lake.
00:27:12The Babe did get it
00:27:13out onto the ice,
00:27:14but either it broke
00:27:15or the ice melted.
00:27:18And this is where
00:27:18the piano now sits.
00:27:20The piano has been
00:27:21at the bottom of this pond
00:27:22for 85 years
00:27:24or as long as the Red Sox
00:27:25haven't won a World Series.
00:27:29The water pump.
00:27:31If we can find it
00:27:33and restore it,
00:27:34perhaps the baseball gods
00:27:35will look favorably
00:27:37upon this
00:27:37and grant us
00:27:38a World Series.
00:27:39So if there's a curse breaker,
00:27:40I feel the piano is it.
00:27:44So far dive teams
00:27:45have scoured the area
00:27:47unsuccessfully.
00:27:48I'm against cloning,
00:27:53but since we have them already,
00:27:55why don't we just clone them
00:27:57and get like 10 Teds?
00:28:03Get like a starting lineup
00:28:04of all Teds.
00:28:08The Yankees have all the money,
00:28:09let's get all the clones.
00:28:12I wish I had an answer,
00:28:14but I don't.
00:28:14As soon as they win one,
00:28:20it all goes away.
00:28:21Until they do,
00:28:21it stays out there.
00:28:22Wait till next year.
00:28:27As a metaphor for
00:28:29their failures
00:28:29have nothing whatsoever
00:28:30to do with Babe Ruth.
00:28:32Yes, they're...
00:28:33This is the dumbest thing
00:28:33I've ever heard of.
00:28:34There's no curse
00:28:35of the Bambino.
00:28:36It's not some evil force
00:28:38or some curse.
00:28:39There's always an incident
00:28:40you can point at.
00:28:42Bill Lee did not
00:28:43throw the right pitch.
00:28:44There's his blooper pitch.
00:28:45There it is.
00:28:47A high drive.
00:28:48He's waiting for that one.
00:28:49That one is gone
00:28:50over everything.
00:28:52He made a mistake
00:28:53out there.
00:28:54No curse.
00:28:55Nothing overtook
00:28:56Bill Lee's body,
00:28:56though I do believe
00:28:57aliens might have
00:28:58it one time.
00:28:59Huh.
00:28:59This whole idea
00:29:00of diving for a piano
00:29:02and creating
00:29:03all this utter nonsense
00:29:05is an insult
00:29:06to anyone's intelligence.
00:29:08Unless you're a nitwit,
00:29:10typical,
00:29:11thumb-sucking
00:29:12New England
00:29:12ragtime.
00:29:15Call me.
00:29:19Why are the baseball
00:29:20guys so fickle?
00:29:21Why are we treated
00:29:22this way?
00:29:22Ah, woe is this?
00:29:23Blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:29:24P. W. N. C. Sears.
00:29:29Provincial,
00:29:30whining,
00:29:31narcissistic,
00:29:33chronic
00:29:33complainers.
00:29:35Anything but
00:29:36the facts
00:29:36are used
00:29:37as a crutch
00:29:38as an excuse
00:29:39for why they haven't won.
00:29:41We're cursed.
00:29:42And maybe it's easier
00:29:43to accept a curse.
00:29:45It takes the heat off.
00:29:46It's better to point fingers
00:29:47and say it's the damn
00:29:48pimpino.
00:29:50It's Harry Frazee.
00:29:51Yeah, that's why.
00:29:53That's the attraction
00:29:54of the curse.
00:29:55It seems to explain
00:29:56everything.
00:29:58It's cute.
00:30:01It fits.
00:30:02Oh, that's why
00:30:03we've lost.
00:30:05We don't have to examine
00:30:06the real history.
00:30:09If you study
00:30:10the real history
00:30:11of the club,
00:30:11you'll realize
00:30:12that there's a reason
00:30:13why they've won
00:30:13and lost.
00:30:14You win or lose
00:30:15by who picks
00:30:16your talent.
00:30:18You bring in
00:30:18the best players,
00:30:19you win.
00:30:20You give me
00:30:20the best team
00:30:21and you can have
00:30:21the curse on your side.
00:30:23We'll see who wins.
00:30:24Now, what's better
00:30:27than a warm summer
00:30:28night at Fenway Park?
00:30:31But if you look at it
00:30:32another way,
00:30:33it just might be
00:30:34that the very place
00:30:35we most identify
00:30:36with is in the eyes
00:30:38of many.
00:30:39A very big reason
00:30:41the Sox haven't been
00:30:41able to win a championship
00:30:43in more than 80 years.
00:30:46I love Fenway Park.
00:30:47It's the only thing
00:30:48that hasn't changed
00:30:49in the 80-whatever years
00:30:50since we've won.
00:30:51Players have changed,
00:30:52ownership has finally changed,
00:30:54but the park stays the same.
00:30:55And if there's a curse,
00:30:56I think it's the park.
00:30:57And there's something
00:30:58about playing in that park.
00:30:59Anyone who's been
00:31:03around the team
00:31:04for a period of time
00:31:05has to acknowledge
00:31:06that the ballpark
00:31:07has hurt this franchise
00:31:08in many, many more ways
00:31:10than it has helped.
00:31:12Is it not a group
00:31:13like me or two?
00:31:14They have almost always
00:31:15tried to tailor the team
00:31:16to the contours
00:31:17of the ballpark.
00:31:19The green monster,
00:31:20the left field wall,
00:31:21big right-handed hitter,
00:31:22strong,
00:31:23get ball over the wall.
00:31:27The Red Sox,
00:31:28over the years,
00:31:29have gone out
00:31:29and tried to get
00:31:30that certain individual,
00:31:32that certain player
00:31:32who has that perfect
00:31:34Fenway Park swing.
00:31:35Let's get that guy
00:31:35because you know what?
00:31:36He's hitting 35 home runs now.
00:31:38We bring him in here,
00:31:39he can hit 55
00:31:40with that swing.
00:31:42Jimmy Fox,
00:31:44Rudy Auk,
00:31:45Dick Gurnett,
00:31:46Walter Dropo,
00:31:47Vern Stephens.
00:31:48Dick Stewart was the first
00:31:49one I remember.
00:31:50He was everything
00:31:51you'd expect
00:31:52from a right-handed slugger
00:31:52with the Red Sox.
00:31:53He didn't care about anything
00:31:54except hitting home runs.
00:31:56Over the years,
00:31:57they have been this big,
00:31:58slow,
00:31:59lumbering type of team.
00:32:02They'll never steal a base.
00:32:03They can't go from first to third
00:32:04on a base set.
00:32:06They'll never move a runner along.
00:32:07They're defensively hopeless.
00:32:09They never hit and run.
00:32:10They never bunted.
00:32:11They couldn't beat you
00:32:12any other way.
00:32:15Incredible.
00:32:16They never quite got it,
00:32:17but the way you win
00:32:18the whole thing
00:32:18is have the best pitching.
00:32:26If you play
00:32:27half your games
00:32:28in Fenway Park,
00:32:29you have to have
00:32:30great pitching.
00:32:30He struck him out.
00:32:35Lately,
00:32:36they've given up
00:32:36the ghost a bit,
00:32:38but the parochialism
00:32:40that's inherent
00:32:40in greater Boston,
00:32:43in New England,
00:32:44really,
00:32:44has always been
00:32:46epidemic
00:32:47within the Red Sox
00:32:48organization.
00:32:50Build a ball club
00:32:51for 81 home games,
00:32:53as if
00:32:53what happened
00:32:54when you went past
00:32:55Lake Quinsigamond
00:32:56in Worcester
00:32:57didn't really count.
00:33:01You still have to play
00:33:02half of your schedule
00:33:03in somebody else's ballpark.
00:33:05They never thought of that.
00:33:06Amazing.
00:33:07Years went by,
00:33:08decades even.
00:33:09What a, what a,
00:33:10what a concept
00:33:11that you have to do that.
00:33:13I wonder what idiot
00:33:14made that decision.
00:33:16In the year 2018,
00:33:19it'll be a hundred years
00:33:20since they won
00:33:20their last championship.
00:33:22They're gonna study
00:33:22what every team
00:33:23in sports has done,
00:33:25because by 2018,
00:33:26every single team
00:33:28in sports
00:33:28will have won
00:33:28a championship,
00:33:30hockey, baseball,
00:33:30football, basketball,
00:33:32soccer, except the Red Sox.
00:33:33So they'll make a study
00:33:34of this thing.
00:33:35Then they'll take the report.
00:33:36By 2018,
00:33:38the Red Sox won
00:33:39four more.
00:33:40So, no.
00:33:42Report that they paid
00:33:43a consultant
00:33:44hundreds of thousands
00:33:45of dollars for.
00:33:46They'll take it
00:33:46and they'll stick it
00:33:47in a drawer
00:33:47and they'll not read it.
00:33:48It's funny in one sense,
00:33:50but in another sense,
00:33:51to those that take it
00:33:52really serious,
00:33:53it's a tragedy.
00:33:54There's something
00:33:56else to consider
00:33:57and it's a tragedy
00:33:58of a different sort.
00:34:00The Red Sox
00:34:00shameful scorecard
00:34:02on race relations.
00:34:04They were the last...
00:34:04I grew up in Dorchester,
00:34:05which is a predominantly
00:34:06black neighborhood
00:34:07and we were a mile
00:34:08and a half away
00:34:09from Fenway,
00:34:09but we had never
00:34:10been to games.
00:34:11Nobody talked
00:34:12about going to games.
00:34:12None of the adults
00:34:13rooted for the Red Sox.
00:34:14My uncle used to tell me,
00:34:15why would I go to Fenway
00:34:16just to get beat up?
00:34:18If you really look
00:34:19at the history
00:34:19of the Boston Red Sox,
00:34:21it's not a lot of fun.
00:34:22Actually,
00:34:23it's appalling.
00:34:24The Red Sox
00:34:25were the last team
00:34:25in the majors
00:34:26to embrace integration.
00:34:28It was the middle
00:34:28of 1959
00:34:29when Pumpsey Green
00:34:30finally came to Boston.
00:34:32That's a full 12 years
00:34:33after Jackie Robinson
00:34:34broke the color barrier.
00:34:36More than two
00:34:37after he retired.
00:34:39The Sox could have
00:34:40made history
00:34:40if that very same
00:34:42Jackie Robinson
00:34:42wasn't so casually
00:34:44dismissed in 1945.
00:34:45There were some
00:34:47civic forces
00:34:47that felt
00:34:48the war's over,
00:34:49the blacks had served
00:34:50in the war,
00:34:51they ought to get a chance
00:34:52in baseball.
00:34:53For some reason,
00:34:54Robinson turned up
00:34:55at Fenway Park
00:34:56for a tryout.
00:34:57Somebody yelled out,
00:34:59what's that nigger
00:34:59doing here?
00:35:01Get him out of here!
00:35:03Four years later,
00:35:04the Sox had a chance
00:35:05to sign Willie Mays
00:35:06for $5,000.
00:35:08But the racially suspect
00:35:10Tom Yonke,
00:35:11whose family owned the team
00:35:12for nearly six decades,
00:35:14agreed with his scouts
00:35:16who reportedly claimed
00:35:17that Willie
00:35:17wasn't their type of player.
00:35:21He wasn't their type of player.
00:35:24He's a winner.
00:35:26He was too good
00:35:27to play for the Red Sox.
00:35:29They were a racist team,
00:35:31there's no doubt about that,
00:35:32an old boys club.
00:35:34That was the
00:35:35Yonke plantation mentality.
00:35:37The Yonkees were right
00:35:37out of Tennessee Williams.
00:35:39As much as the Red Sox
00:35:41are connected
00:35:41with New England,
00:35:43they're connected
00:35:44to Tom Yonke.
00:35:45When you look at
00:35:45his pedigree in the game,
00:35:46when you look at
00:35:46the people who taught
00:35:48him how to be
00:35:48a baseball man,
00:35:49they are
00:35:50Southern Rednecks.
00:35:52Tom Yonke learned
00:35:53the game
00:35:53from the Detroit Tigers.
00:35:55His uncle was
00:35:56an owner of the club,
00:35:57and the Detroit Tigers
00:35:58were one of the most
00:35:59racist teams in baseball,
00:36:00just like the Red Sox
00:36:01and the Yankees.
00:36:02Ty Cobb was his
00:36:03first mentor.
00:36:04It explains
00:36:05where his attitudes
00:36:05came from.
00:36:06No, no, no, no.
00:36:07Ty Cobb
00:36:07was the exact opposite
00:36:09of how he's portrayed.
00:36:11He wasn't racist at all.
00:36:12But that's
00:36:14an entirely
00:36:15different
00:36:15documentary.
00:36:20There was no
00:36:21difference in
00:36:22whether or not
00:36:23Tom Yonke
00:36:24was an overt
00:36:24or covert racist
00:36:25or if he was
00:36:26a racist at all.
00:36:26What you do know
00:36:28is his track record.
00:36:29Everybody is always
00:36:31asking in terms
00:36:32of Tom Yonke,
00:36:33well, where's
00:36:33the smoking gun?
00:36:34Where's the document
00:36:35where he uses
00:36:36the N-word?
00:36:38Yonke didn't leave
00:36:38a document like that,
00:36:40but he did leave
00:36:40a document.
00:36:41He left a document
00:36:42on the field
00:36:43for decades.
00:36:45Just look at it.
00:36:46You know,
00:36:47you want proof?
00:36:48There it is.
00:36:48Not only is that
00:36:49something that's
00:36:50distasteful from
00:36:51a racial standpoint,
00:36:52but from a competitive
00:36:52standpoint.
00:36:53If you're a Red Sox fan
00:36:54in the 1950s
00:36:55when your team
00:36:55was in last place
00:36:56every year,
00:36:57you say to yourself,
00:36:58what's going on here?
00:36:59The Red Sox
00:36:59were sucking
00:37:01on the end
00:37:01of the tailpipe
00:37:02when these fabulous
00:37:04black ballplayers
00:37:06were making their mark
00:37:07and we had
00:37:08a whole bunch
00:37:09of slow white guys.
00:37:11The Sox paid dearly
00:37:13for that ignorant stance.
00:37:14From the 1950s
00:37:15through the mid-60s,
00:37:16they remained
00:37:17almost entirely white
00:37:18and downright mediocre,
00:37:21bottoming out in 1965
00:37:22when they lost
00:37:23a hundred games.
00:37:25During the late 60s,
00:37:27the racial balance
00:37:28of the Red Sox
00:37:28did improve.
00:37:30But over the next
00:37:31two decades,
00:37:33with little
00:37:33African-American presence
00:37:34in the organization,
00:37:36the team once again
00:37:37fell woefully short.
00:37:39Some players
00:37:40would soldier on
00:37:41as the lone,
00:37:42isolated black face
00:37:43on the field.
00:37:45Others,
00:37:45like Tommy Harper,
00:37:46a minor league instructor
00:37:47and former player,
00:37:49would file and win
00:37:49a racial discrimination suit
00:37:51against the team.
00:37:53And that was in 1985.
00:37:57Eeeh.
00:37:58It's hard to overstate
00:38:00the amount of damage
00:38:01that that perception
00:38:03did to this franchise.
00:38:05Boston as a city
00:38:07had a difficult enough time.
00:38:09With the busing crisis
00:38:10in the 1970s,
00:38:11it gave the city
00:38:12a horrible reputation.
00:38:13To have the Red Sox
00:38:17layered on top of that
00:38:18as an organization
00:38:20that is institutionally racist
00:38:22also made that
00:38:23an exponential problem
00:38:25once baseball
00:38:26entered the free agent era.
00:38:28In 1976,
00:38:29after free agency,
00:38:30now you've got a sea change
00:38:32in baseball.
00:38:32Now the players can control
00:38:33where they want to go.
00:38:35And now,
00:38:36it's payback time.
00:38:37Now they get to say,
00:38:38you know what?
00:38:39I've heard too much
00:38:39about Boston
00:38:40and I don't want
00:38:41to play there.
00:38:42And so now the roles
00:38:43are reversed.
00:38:43From 1976
00:38:44to 1992,
00:38:47the Red Sox
00:38:47did not sign
00:38:48a single black free agent.
00:38:50If you talk to black players
00:38:51about Boston,
00:38:52they will tell you,
00:38:53maybe I don't want
00:38:54to play there.
00:38:55Or I'll make sure
00:38:56it's written into my contract
00:38:57that I can never
00:38:58play there.
00:38:58I don't think
00:39:00the curse is funny
00:39:01if indeed
00:39:02it becomes
00:39:03a silly excuse
00:39:05for some of these
00:39:06offenses.
00:39:08And these were
00:39:08historical offenses.
00:39:10The Red Sox
00:39:10stand for something.
00:39:11They have a place
00:39:12in the culture
00:39:13of this region.
00:39:14They speak for everyone.
00:39:15They express some
00:39:16of our essence,
00:39:17I believe.
00:39:17Yes, essence.
00:39:19If it does represent
00:39:20some of what we are
00:39:22and what we're all about,
00:39:23then that baggage
00:39:24goes with it.
00:39:25Three World Series
00:39:36appearances.
00:39:371946,
00:39:391967,
00:39:40and 1975.
00:39:42Just one more win
00:39:43and we'd have never heard
00:39:45of the curse
00:39:46of the Bambino.
00:39:48You could say the same
00:39:48about 1986,
00:39:50except 86 was so
00:39:51unnerving,
00:39:52so surreal,
00:39:53that even the most
00:39:54ardent realists
00:39:55began to think
00:39:56maybe there is something
00:39:58to this curse.
00:40:02It started in the playoffs.
00:40:04Sox down three games
00:40:05to the one.
00:40:08In the ninth,
00:40:09down three,
00:40:10we rallied.
00:40:11With two outs,
00:40:12we still trailed
00:40:13five to four
00:40:14when Donnie Moore
00:40:15came in to face
00:40:16Dave Henderson.
00:40:16home run.
00:40:20To left field
00:40:22and deep
00:40:23and it's gone!
00:40:26Unbelievable!
00:40:30I can just see him
00:40:31just floating.
00:40:34I was babysitting
00:40:35my new niece,
00:40:36Amanda,
00:40:36and I went crazy.
00:40:37I woke her up
00:40:38and she was screaming
00:40:38and I told her
00:40:41it was all
00:40:41for a good cause.
00:40:44Those things
00:40:44never happened
00:40:45to the Red Sox.
00:40:48Finally,
00:40:48it's our turn.
00:40:49Finally,
00:40:49we have a storybook
00:40:50finish pulling out
00:40:52of the coffin
00:40:52and crushing
00:40:53another team's heart.
00:40:55The Sox went on
00:40:56to win the series
00:40:57in seven games,
00:40:58a reprieve of Sox
00:41:00for several decades
00:41:01of futility.
00:41:04The comeback
00:41:05in the playoffs
00:41:06in 86
00:41:06should have
00:41:07enabled them
00:41:08to forever put
00:41:09the idea of
00:41:10them being chokers
00:41:11behind.
00:41:11It should have been
00:41:11history.
00:41:12This team throws off
00:41:13all odds
00:41:13and comes back
00:41:14and beats you.
00:41:17It was the Mets.
00:41:21With the Sox up
00:41:22three games to two,
00:41:23game six
00:41:24went into the
00:41:2510th inning.
00:41:26And again,
00:41:29Dave Henderson
00:41:30hit a dramatic
00:41:30home run.
00:41:33We even added
00:41:34another
00:41:34to take a
00:41:355-3 lead.
00:41:37Three more
00:41:39outs.
00:41:40We just
00:41:40needed three
00:41:41more outs.
00:41:45He flied
00:41:45out to Jim Rice
00:41:46and they can
00:41:46still see Rice
00:41:47with the two
00:41:48hands catching it
00:41:48and bringing it
00:41:49down.
00:41:50One out.
00:41:50One away.
00:41:52And then
00:41:52Keith Hernandez
00:41:53came up.
00:41:54Satter with
00:41:55Henderson
00:41:55gonna run it
00:41:56down.
00:41:56Two hands.
00:41:58He has that
00:41:58little flip
00:41:59into the infield.
00:42:00Sixth, bottom
00:42:12of the 10th,
00:42:12Red Sox up
00:42:135-3.
00:42:16Two out.
00:42:17It was
00:42:17Gettysburg.
00:42:21July 3rd,
00:42:23right before
00:42:23Pickett's
00:42:24charge.
00:42:25It was really
00:42:26possible at that
00:42:27call.
00:42:30I was down
00:42:31in the bowels
00:42:32of Shafe's
00:42:32Those carts
00:42:36of champagne
00:42:36into that
00:42:37locker room.
00:42:37I watched
00:42:38them put the
00:42:39world championship
00:42:40T-shirts on
00:42:41everybody's seat.
00:42:42It was sewn up.
00:42:43It was gonna be
00:42:44the ultimate
00:42:44purging of
00:42:45everything.
00:42:46I stood on
00:42:47the bar.
00:42:47I'm gonna have
00:42:48a heart attack.
00:42:49I was sobbing.
00:42:50I'm jumping up
00:42:51and down.
00:42:51We got off the
00:42:52sofa,
00:42:52got off our
00:42:53chairs.
00:42:54My nails
00:42:54were dug
00:42:55into my
00:42:56hands.
00:42:56I've waited
00:42:57my whole
00:42:59life for this.
00:43:00Well, here's
00:43:03the theme.
00:43:05And all the
00:43:06people around
00:43:06me couldn't
00:43:07imagine why
00:43:07I was crying.
00:43:08And my
00:43:08brother turned
00:43:09around and
00:43:09he said,
00:43:10she was the
00:43:10same way in
00:43:111918.
00:43:13I couldn't
00:43:14believe that
00:43:14my team was
00:43:15gonna win.
00:43:16I was
00:43:16ecstatic.
00:43:18People all
00:43:19over New
00:43:19England are
00:43:19holding babies
00:43:20in front of
00:43:21television screens.
00:43:22I woke my
00:43:23son.
00:43:23I could not
00:43:24let him sleep.
00:43:25He would
00:43:25never forgive
00:43:25me.
00:43:26I carried
00:43:26him from
00:43:26the room.
00:43:27I brought
00:43:28him over to
00:43:28the couch and
00:43:29I told him,
00:43:30come see
00:43:30something nobody's
00:43:31seen in 70
00:43:31years.
00:43:33And the
00:43:33Mets are
00:43:34down to
00:43:34their last
00:43:35out.
00:43:36And Gary
00:43:37Carter at
00:43:38the plate.
00:43:42Gary Carter.
00:43:45My brother
00:43:46picks up the
00:43:47top.
00:43:47My uncle
00:43:47in New
00:43:48Jersey,
00:43:49who's the
00:43:49big Mets
00:43:49fan.
00:43:50The second
00:43:50the last
00:43:51out is made
00:43:52and they rush
00:43:52the field
00:43:53and a champagne
00:43:53comes out.
00:43:54His phone's
00:43:57gonna ring.
00:43:58It's gonna
00:43:58be us rubbing
00:43:59it in his
00:43:59face.
00:43:59My brother
00:44:00was just
00:44:01dialing.
00:44:01And then
00:44:03had his
00:44:04thumb over
00:44:04the last
00:44:05number.
00:44:07And he
00:44:08pops it
00:44:09foul.
00:44:10Damn it.
00:44:11Getting
00:44:11one over
00:44:11and there
00:44:11was a chance
00:44:12to make
00:44:12a play
00:44:12and I
00:44:13remember
00:44:13thinking
00:44:13no,
00:44:13no,
00:44:13no,
00:44:13I don't
00:44:14want it
00:44:14to end
00:44:14on a
00:44:14foul pop
00:44:15to the
00:44:15catch.
00:44:15I want
00:44:15it to
00:44:16be classic.
00:44:16I want
00:44:16it to be
00:44:17a strikeout.
00:44:18And when
00:44:18the ball
00:44:19ended the
00:44:19season,
00:44:19I thought,
00:44:19great.
00:44:24Lined
00:44:24into left
00:44:25field,
00:44:25base hit
00:44:26caught.
00:44:26I
00:44:27remember
00:44:28Vin Scully
00:44:29saying,
00:44:30the Mets
00:44:30are still
00:44:31alive.
00:44:32I said,
00:44:33yeah,
00:44:34right.
00:44:35And with
00:44:35two out,
00:44:36representing
00:44:36the tying
00:44:37run,
00:44:38Kevin Mitchell.
00:44:39I don't
00:44:39think Kevin
00:44:39Mitchell was
00:44:40wearing a
00:44:40cup or
00:44:40jock or
00:44:41anything.
00:44:41He had
00:44:41been in
00:44:41the clubhouse
00:44:42making plane
00:44:42reservations
00:44:43back to
00:44:43San Diego.
00:44:44He was
00:44:44drinking a
00:44:45beer with
00:44:45Keith Hernandez.
00:44:46Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
00:44:49Curveball,
00:44:49and that's
00:44:50gonna be
00:44:50hit to
00:44:50center,
00:44:51base hit.
00:44:51And now
00:44:53suddenly
00:44:54with two out
00:44:55in the
00:44:55tenth inning,
00:44:56the time
00:44:57runs are
00:44:57warm.
00:45:00And
00:45:00Ray Knight
00:45:02will be
00:45:02the batter.
00:45:03And now
00:45:03we're
00:45:04starting to
00:45:04sweat
00:45:04a little
00:45:05bit.
00:45:05There was
00:45:06this sort
00:45:06of like
00:45:06pit at
00:45:07the bottom
00:45:07of your
00:45:08stomach
00:45:08forming.
00:45:09The hair
00:45:09started to
00:45:10prickle
00:45:10on the
00:45:11back
00:45:11of your
00:45:11neck.
00:45:11All I
00:45:12thought
00:45:12was
00:45:12get it
00:45:13out,
00:45:13get it
00:45:14out,
00:45:14get it
00:45:15out.
00:45:16Schiraldi's
00:45:16expression
00:45:17was like
00:45:18me
00:45:19in
00:45:19algebra
00:45:20class
00:45:20when I
00:45:21was called
00:45:21for my
00:45:22homework.
00:45:23My
00:45:23brother
00:45:23kept
00:45:24dialing.
00:45:25And that's
00:45:26gonna be
00:45:26hit into
00:45:27center,
00:45:27Pio.
00:45:29Base hit.
00:45:30What?
00:45:30It comes
00:45:31part of
00:45:31this
00:45:31forward.
00:45:32Oh,
00:45:33I can't
00:45:33believe this,
00:45:33but no,
00:45:34they're not
00:45:34gonna blow
00:45:34this.
00:45:35It's
00:45:35impossible.
00:45:36And the
00:45:37Mets
00:45:37refuse to
00:45:38go
00:45:38quietly.
00:45:39It signals
00:45:40for the
00:45:40bullpen.
00:45:41The gate
00:45:41opens up,
00:45:42and out
00:45:42comes
00:45:42Stanley,
00:45:43and I
00:45:43screamed.
00:45:44Uh-oh,
00:45:44uh-oh,
00:45:45no,
00:45:45no,
00:45:47oh,
00:45:47God.
00:45:49Shit.
00:45:51If there's
00:45:51ever a guy
00:45:52that just
00:45:52epitomized
00:45:53the Red Sox
00:45:53loserdom,
00:45:54Bob Stanley,
00:45:55he just
00:45:55had that
00:45:56sad kind
00:45:57of droopy
00:45:57face.
00:45:58You have
00:45:58the tying
00:45:59run 90
00:46:00feet away,
00:46:01and here's
00:46:01Mookie.
00:46:04Filed on.
00:46:04He got two
00:46:05strikes on
00:46:06Mookie.
00:46:06They get to
00:46:06one strike away,
00:46:07not once,
00:46:09not twice,
00:46:10but three
00:46:11times.
00:46:11Tension
00:46:12mounts some
00:46:12more.
00:46:13Two out
00:46:13in the
00:46:1410th,
00:46:145-4
00:46:15Red Sox,
00:46:16Ray Knight
00:46:16at first.
00:46:17My quadriceps
00:46:17are tense,
00:46:18my patellas
00:46:19are bursting,
00:46:19my back's hurting,
00:46:20because I haven't
00:46:20been able to
00:46:21jump up yet.
00:46:23My brother,
00:46:24to his credit,
00:46:24kept dialing
00:46:25each pitch,
00:46:26but you got
00:46:27the sense of,
00:46:27oh,
00:46:28shit,
00:46:28something's
00:46:29gonna happen.
00:46:32What happened?
00:46:36What just
00:46:36happened?
00:46:37And Ray Knight
00:46:38at second base.
00:46:39I watched
00:46:49them wheel
00:46:49that champagne
00:46:50back out
00:46:51and grab
00:46:51those t-shirts
00:46:52and stuff them
00:46:53back in the bag.
00:46:54It was really
00:46:54like a horror film.
00:46:55I couldn't
00:46:56believe my eyes.
00:46:57We couldn't
00:46:57have dreamt
00:46:58this thing up.
00:46:59I just turned
00:47:00to a bartender
00:47:00and said,
00:47:01give me everything
00:47:02on the top shelf
00:47:02and put it
00:47:03in a big glass.
00:47:04No,
00:47:05it can't be
00:47:06happening.
00:47:07It just
00:47:07can't be
00:47:08happening.
00:47:09But it was.
00:47:10My brother
00:47:10hung up the phone
00:47:11and there
00:47:14was a sense
00:47:14of,
00:47:15this game's
00:47:15lost.
00:47:16He didn't
00:47:17even score
00:47:18the winning run.
00:47:19So the winning run
00:47:21is at second base
00:47:22with two out,
00:47:24three and two
00:47:25to Mookie Wilson.
00:47:26And then the
00:47:32unbelievable
00:47:32happened.
00:47:36The whole world
00:47:37slowed down
00:47:37for me.
00:47:39It stopped time.
00:47:40It was like
00:47:41watching a slow motion
00:47:42car accident.
00:47:45It just
00:47:46couldn't have
00:47:47really happened.
00:47:48It had to have
00:47:49been a movie
00:47:49or somebody's idea
00:47:51of a cruel joke.
00:47:52I was in
00:47:53complete,
00:47:54utter,
00:47:55catatonic shock.
00:48:02My son
00:48:03just collapsed.
00:48:05I picked him up
00:48:06and he was just
00:48:06sobbing.
00:48:07I felt like I'd
00:48:08done the worst
00:48:09thing to him
00:48:10a human being
00:48:11could do.
00:48:12I mean,
00:48:12to do that
00:48:13to your kid.
00:48:13I didn't say a word.
00:48:14I just got up
00:48:16from the sofa
00:48:17and I walked up
00:48:18two flights of stairs
00:48:19to the bedroom,
00:48:21threw myself
00:48:22face first
00:48:24onto the bed,
00:48:25uncontrollably
00:48:27crying.
00:48:27I was so upset.
00:48:29It really was
00:48:30an hour and a half
00:48:31after the game
00:48:31ended before I
00:48:32could even move.
00:48:33That
00:48:33really pissed me off.
00:48:36Really pissed me off.
00:48:39Really.
00:48:41Really pissed me off.
00:48:42I was back
00:48:44in the third grade
00:48:45in the Police Athletic League
00:48:46in Haverhill, Massachusetts
00:48:47and my coach
00:48:48was saying
00:48:49glove to the ground.
00:48:50Glove to the ground.
00:48:51And I thought
00:48:52to myself
00:48:53how can he not
00:48:54know this?
00:48:55Glove to the ground.
00:48:56Come on.
00:48:57Pick up the ball.
00:48:58He had an injury.
00:49:00I just went over
00:49:01turned off the TV
00:49:03and told my wife
00:49:04that I was going
00:49:05to take a good
00:49:05long walk.
00:49:06I needed some solitude.
00:49:08What I didn't count on
00:49:09was the fact
00:49:10that there would be
00:49:10hundreds of Bostonians
00:49:12walking the streets
00:49:13of Newton, Massachusetts
00:49:14crazed.
00:49:16I remember
00:49:16one elderly couple
00:49:17and she looked
00:49:18up to me
00:49:19with blinking eyes
00:49:20and said
00:49:20oh we just wanted
00:49:22to see them win
00:49:23at one time
00:49:24in our lifetime.
00:49:25Same.
00:49:26And I ran across
00:49:27an old guy
00:49:28walking his dog
00:49:28and he looked at me
00:49:30with my Red Sox cap
00:49:31tilted aimlessly
00:49:32on my head
00:49:33and he said
00:49:34son
00:49:34this is the darkest
00:49:37day in this town
00:49:38since Jack Kennedy
00:49:39was shot.
00:49:39That's a shame.
00:49:44Ground ball
00:49:44that went through
00:49:45Bill Buckner's legs
00:49:46that would haunt us
00:49:48to
00:49:48this day.
00:49:52Oh man.
00:49:56I'll never forget
00:49:57Vin Scully's words.
00:49:59There's a look.
00:50:00Little roller up along first.
00:50:02Little roller up along first.
00:50:03Behind the bag.
00:50:05Behind the bag.
00:50:06Behind the bag.
00:50:07It gets through Buckner.
00:50:09It gets
00:50:09through Buckner.
00:50:11Here comes night
00:50:12and the Mets win it.
00:50:14Here comes night
00:50:15and the Mets win it.
00:50:17To this day
00:50:18it actually
00:50:19physically hurts
00:50:20to look at
00:50:21it's like staring
00:50:22at the sun.
00:50:25It
00:50:25becomes
00:50:27the watershed moment
00:50:29in the history
00:50:31of the Red Sox.
00:50:3386 gets more ghastly
00:50:35as time goes along.
00:50:36How they couldn't get
00:50:37that last time.
00:50:41The answer gets
00:50:42farther and farther away
00:50:43as time goes along.
00:50:44It's just impossible to
00:50:45fathom.
00:50:50There's a quote from
00:50:50Requiem for a nun.
00:50:53The past is never dead.
00:50:55It's not even past.
00:50:56That's what Red Sox fans
00:50:58they killed Buckner for that.
00:51:03They
00:51:03killed him for like
00:51:0518 years.
00:51:07Bob Stanley
00:51:08was the guy
00:51:09who blew the game
00:51:10and this
00:51:10is why the Red Sox
00:51:12didn't win for 86 years.
00:51:15Them and their fans
00:51:16have loser mindsets
00:51:17that they thought
00:51:19a series was lost
00:51:20and they're depressed
00:51:21after they lost
00:51:22at game 6.
00:51:24There was still game 7
00:51:25and they could have won.
00:51:28Loser mindset.
00:51:32Carry with them
00:51:33all the time.
00:51:351986, October 25th
00:51:37is right there.
00:51:38It's always right there.
00:51:4086 is alive.
00:51:41It looms in every
00:51:43season since.
00:51:44and will until
00:51:46everybody who saw it
00:51:48is gone.
00:51:50It takes a lot
00:51:50to get over that stuff.
00:51:52It does.
00:51:52It really does.
00:51:53It really just goes
00:51:54down deep into your psyche.
00:51:56I really used to laugh
00:51:57at people that talked
00:51:58about the cars
00:51:59but I'm
00:51:59I'm kind of
00:52:01becoming a believer.
00:52:11Three quarters of a century
00:52:13of frustrating losses
00:52:15and broken hearts.
00:52:17You might think
00:52:18the Red Sox
00:52:18would have lost
00:52:19a few fans
00:52:20over the years
00:52:20but for better
00:52:22or for worse
00:52:23in sickness
00:52:24and in health
00:52:24in good years
00:52:26and in bad
00:52:27the Boston Red Sox
00:52:29staunchly remain
00:52:30New England's team.
00:52:33It's like
00:52:33the smell of a rose
00:52:35or how you could
00:52:36explain the universe.
00:52:37How can you explain
00:52:38the popularity
00:52:38of the Boston Red Sox?
00:52:40If we were all
00:52:44consumed with
00:52:45only winning
00:52:46then we would
00:52:47have walked away
00:52:48from them
00:52:48a long time ago.
00:52:50We like traditions
00:52:51around here
00:52:52and they're
00:52:52part of the tradition.
00:52:54Go to spring training
00:52:54this is the year
00:52:55it's all great.
00:52:57Play well
00:52:57through the summer
00:52:57they get hot
00:52:58and in the fall
00:52:59you start to get nervous
00:53:00and they fall.
00:53:03Then all winter
00:53:04we complain about them
00:53:04and look forward
00:53:05to the next year
00:53:06and it just keeps
00:53:06repeating itself
00:53:07over and over.
00:53:09It's the cycle
00:53:10of the seasons
00:53:11it's part of the
00:53:12circle of life
00:53:13here in New England.
00:53:15We complain
00:53:15about our politicians
00:53:16we complain
00:53:17about the weather
00:53:17we complain
00:53:19about the Red Sox
00:53:19people from Boston
00:53:20who grew up
00:53:21watching the Red Sox
00:53:21you can always
00:53:22share in your pain
00:53:22and trade one painful
00:53:23story for the next.
00:53:25Red Sox fans
00:53:26wear the tag
00:53:28long-suffering
00:53:29Red Sox fan
00:53:30like a badge of honor.
00:53:32Deep down inside
00:53:33I think we enjoy
00:53:34the misery
00:53:35I think we enjoy
00:53:36being punished.
00:53:36You have to realize
00:53:39that in New England
00:53:39you're coming out
00:53:40of a Puritan tradition
00:53:41of we deserve
00:53:43to suffer.
00:53:45We were founded
00:53:46by Puritans
00:53:46and Calvinists
00:53:47as hard-working
00:53:48suffering people
00:53:49you weren't allowed
00:53:49to have fun
00:53:50you had to go
00:53:50to church all the time
00:53:51get bonked on the head
00:53:52if you weren't
00:53:52paying attention.
00:53:53Perhaps the Red Sox
00:53:54represent some part of us
00:53:56we don't recognize
00:53:56or admit to
00:53:57any other way
00:53:58some part of us
00:53:59that we know
00:53:59is beaten
00:53:59before it starts
00:54:01but yet we love
00:54:02it anyway.
00:54:03It's like a guy
00:54:07with women
00:54:08are you going
00:54:08to give him up?
00:54:09No, of course not
00:54:10she's going to
00:54:10break your heart
00:54:11going to throw you out
00:54:13going to change
00:54:13the locks
00:54:14but you're going
00:54:14to be right back
00:54:15pounding at the door
00:54:16the next spring.
00:54:16yes you are
00:54:21the Red Sox
00:54:24are as much
00:54:24a part of New England
00:54:25as Paul Revere's house
00:54:26as Cape Cod
00:54:28as JFK
00:54:30as the Bunker Hill Monument
00:54:31it's just part
00:54:32of New England
00:54:33it's just part
00:54:33of something
00:54:34that you must do
00:54:35it's about caring
00:54:37about something
00:54:38this passion
00:54:39is so ingrained
00:54:40in me
00:54:40for so many years
00:54:41that I'm never
00:54:42going to feel differently
00:54:43it reminds you
00:54:44of home
00:54:44it reminds you
00:54:45of your childhood
00:54:45it just fills you
00:54:46it runs in your blood
00:54:50in 67
00:54:51the first word
00:54:52that they taught me
00:54:53how to write
00:54:54was yes
00:54:55and I used to write it
00:54:57like as an autograph
00:54:58of people in the neighborhood
00:54:59like the mailman
00:55:00or the guys
00:55:01on the garbage truck
00:55:02by the time I was in
00:55:02easy to root for a team
00:55:04that wins every year
00:55:04that's no challenge
00:55:06this gives me character
00:55:07the Red Sox
00:55:09are part of the landscape
00:55:10of an imperfect world
00:55:12being a Red Sox fan
00:55:14is simply
00:55:15being a human being
00:55:16and getting used
00:55:17to what happens
00:55:17to people
00:55:18this is a difficult life
00:55:22and the Red Sox
00:55:23are a difficult team
00:55:24most people's lives
00:55:27are rather disappointing
00:55:28you don't always
00:55:29live up to
00:55:30what you expect
00:55:31that you would do
00:55:31in your life
00:55:32but there's always hope
00:55:34knowing that
00:55:35we get another shot
00:55:36every year
00:55:37for me
00:55:37that makes it all worth it
00:55:39I buy a lottery ticket
00:55:44every week
00:55:44of the Massachusetts lottery
00:55:46and I enjoy
00:55:47being a Red Sox fan
00:55:49and I know
00:55:50it's like the lottery
00:55:51six million to one
00:55:53and they're gonna win it all
00:55:54but it doesn't make
00:55:55any difference to me
00:55:56because as long as
00:55:57the hope is there
00:55:58I can't live even a day
00:56:02without hope
00:56:03six million to one
00:56:04means there's that one
00:56:07hope keeps us going
00:56:09every Rosh Hashanah
00:56:12I add Red Sox
00:56:13into my prayers
00:56:14knowing that all prayers
00:56:16are not always answered
00:56:17it's all about
00:56:21the fall of man
00:56:22and about loss
00:56:23but also about
00:56:25things like loyalty
00:56:26and passion
00:56:29and playing it out
00:56:32to the very end
00:56:33so to me
00:56:35the Red Sox
00:56:35have always been
00:56:36a perfect metaphor
00:56:37for people's
00:56:39existences on earth
00:56:40the Red Sox
00:56:43are so embraced
00:56:43because they're so much
00:56:45like ourselves
00:56:46but if one day
00:56:54the gods smiled
00:56:55brightly on the Red Sox
00:56:56and the curse
00:56:57was reversed
00:56:58what the hell
00:56:59would we do?
00:57:01there's no pictures
00:57:02it's like so beyond
00:57:03you know the universe
00:57:04goes infinity
00:57:05where does it end
00:57:06like I don't know
00:57:06what would be there
00:57:07I can't get to that
00:57:08I don't think of a scenario
00:57:10it's so like abstract
00:57:12if the Red Sox
00:57:15win the World Series
00:57:16first of all
00:57:18the death toll
00:57:19in New England
00:57:20will be catastrophic
00:57:21there are so many
00:57:22old people
00:57:23saying I can't die
00:57:25until I see them
00:57:26win the World Series
00:57:27they're all gonna die
00:57:28it's gonna be worse
00:57:30than the Black Plague
00:57:31you can take
00:57:33the St. Patrick's Day
00:57:34parade
00:57:35the Gay Pride parade
00:57:36take every parade
00:57:37including when Lindbergh
00:57:38flew to the ocean
00:57:39and put them all together
00:57:40it won't touch
00:57:41the partying
00:57:42that will go on here
00:57:43it would make
00:57:45the Patriots
00:57:46Super Bowl party
00:57:47look as if it were
00:57:48a couple of people
00:57:49coming over for coffee
00:57:50in the morning
00:57:51Boston is gonna sink
00:57:53into the ocean
00:57:54people will be scaling
00:57:56the green monster
00:57:57you'll see a smile
00:57:58on Collier Stromsky's face
00:57:59somewhere
00:58:00happy
00:58:00like he had that smile
00:58:02in 67
00:58:02getting champagne
00:58:03dumped on his head
00:58:04people would be dancing
00:58:08with their dogs
00:58:09and drinking all that
00:58:10champagne
00:58:10they'd saved up
00:58:11for all these years
00:58:12but then like
00:58:13the next morning
00:58:14people would wake up
00:58:18God
00:58:22what are we gonna do now
00:58:23okay well
00:58:24what do we do next
00:58:25I don't know
00:58:26what we do with ourselves
00:58:27it would be
00:58:36the worst thing
00:58:37ever happened to them
00:58:38because
00:58:39they wouldn't be
00:58:40different anymore
00:58:41the Red Sox
00:58:44would be just
00:58:45another team
00:58:45they'd be just
00:58:48part of the apparatus
00:58:49of baseball
00:58:50instead of this
00:58:50doomed
00:58:51operation
00:58:52it would change
00:58:55the whole mystique
00:58:56of the Red Sox
00:58:56in a moment
00:58:57the crusade
00:58:59would be over
00:59:00we won't have
00:59:00anything else
00:59:01to bitch about
00:59:01it would cease
00:59:02to be interesting
00:59:03the whole mystique
00:59:04is over
00:59:04and the interest
00:59:05would really wane
00:59:06like if I hit
00:59:09the lottery
00:59:09would I buy a ticket
00:59:10the next week
00:59:11I doubt it
00:59:12how could you
00:59:17think that you
00:59:17would miss
00:59:18negativeness
00:59:19but it's more
00:59:20than that
00:59:20it is like
00:59:21an intricate
00:59:21emotional story
00:59:23it's like reading
00:59:26a long
00:59:27fascinating novel
00:59:28that never ends
00:59:30I don't love
00:59:32being a loser
00:59:32believe me
00:59:33but I love
00:59:35this story
00:59:36and if they won
00:59:40the story
00:59:40would be over
00:59:41I have no idea
00:59:44how I'll look at
00:59:45them
00:59:45who are they
00:59:46they're no longer
00:59:47this team
00:59:48that everybody
00:59:48has known
00:59:49since 1918
00:59:50on the other hand
00:59:54how do you
00:59:54say no
00:59:55to a world
00:59:56championship
00:59:56you can't
00:59:58if they ever
01:00:00won it
01:00:00would I
01:00:01not care
01:00:02for them
01:00:02as much
01:00:03I want to
01:00:04find out
01:00:04I'd love
01:00:06to test
01:00:06the theory
01:00:07well I guess
01:00:09we'll cross
01:00:09that bridge
01:00:10or jump off
01:00:11that bridge
01:00:11when we come
01:00:11to it
01:00:12it is a great
01:00:21story
01:00:21but every
01:00:22story has
01:00:23to have
01:00:23an ending
01:00:23I'm here
01:00:27to tell you
01:00:27as I've told
01:00:28my children
01:00:28as I've told
01:00:29all my friends
01:00:30nearly all
01:00:30my life
01:00:31this is the year
01:00:33just next year
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