True Story: I graduated high school in 1996. In my yearbook, I wrote that my dream was to see Pearl Jam in concert & the Red Sox win the World Series. My classmates had dreams of being lawyers, doctors, visiting Europe, joining the military or Peace Corp, having a family, etc.. My dream involved a concert and a ball game. I had no idea how important that dream would be. Four years after I graduated, I met my future wife on August 30, 2000, and kissed her for the first time....at a Pearl Jam concert. Four years after that, I married my wife...on July 24, 2004...the same day as this game...the turning point...the most important regular season game in Red Sox history. Then roughly 3 months after we were married, the Red Sox won the World Series. I have now seen the Sox win 4 World Series and Pearl Jam in concert over a dozen times. But the fact that I met my wife at a Pearl Jam concert, then got married the same year the Sox broke the curse, as well as the same day as the Varitek vs. A-Rod /Bill Mueller walk-off of of Rivera game, after what I wrote in my yearbook, is amazing to me.

Jason Varitek will forever be a cult hero for that shove to A Rod 😂😂😂😂

The legendary rivalry.

When the Sox beat the Evil Empire in those fateful four days in October and then then won the WS it brought tears to my eyes and I broke down. All I could think of was my dad who had passed and never was able to see his beloved Red Sox win it all. It brought back all the memories of my time with my dad at Fenway and also the sound of the game on the radio he always had on. Thanks 2004 Sox it was truly a magical and beautiful year.

Red Sox vs Yankees Celtics vs Lakers Bruins vs Canadiens Patriots vs NFL

I’m a Yankees fan, but you have to appreciate all that the Sox have done. They always make it interesting against us, and have given me some serious stress over the years.

I had a ticket to this game, part of my Saturday Sox Pax 4 pack. I flew in from Dallas the day before, and went to the Pawtucket Red Sox game in Pawtucket, RI. Sadly they lost, just like the Red Sox did that night. I got to Fenway around 2 pm for the 3:15 pm start. My seat? 3 rows from the Pesky Pole in Right Field. Sure was fun being there for this game. It was a full Red Sox baseball weekend for me. AAA on Friday, MLB on Saturday, AA on Sunday and A on Monday. Flew home to Dallas on Tuesday morning. Still got the ticket stub.

I’m a Yankees fan but I do enjoy videos like these. Giving other teams motivation/drive to try and defeat us. We enjoy a challenge. Makes the game more enjoyable for everyone. Not just Yankee fans alone. It adds a piece of history, forever. 👍🏼

The rivalry between the Red Sox and Yankees is such a great and amazing rivalry!!!

What a year that was! I was 29 yrs old. It's one of the best memories of my life, that whole year, 2004. I was at that victory parade in Boston, that town was lit up! It was epic! Again 2004 was a great year, at least for me. Go Red Sox!!

That was on my 25th Birthday, and the best present I ever received. My wish came true.

Tek told A-Hole, we don’t throw at .230 hitters!!!😂😂😂😂

I’m a Red Sox fan and my friend is a Yankees fan and we literally argue all the time about baseball😂

If you are a die hard sports fan, you sometimes see things a normal sportsman doesn't. You could see something was happening, something was changing. It came to full tilt when Roberts stole second base. I knew then it was going down. My father passed in 2000. He waited his whole life to see the sox win the big one. In the 9th inning of that world series game against St. Louis I placed his glasses and his scully cap right next to me on the couch and we both watched something we never thought we'd ever see. It was more than just a game. Hard to explain.

I lived in Manchester, NH for a number of years, which is about a half hour, maybe 45 minutes to Boston. Well, I got off work one regular normal Friday and met friends on the deck at a local bar called Strange Brew. Fast forward 2 or 3 adult beverages & there's 3 of us, all wearing our Sox caps, sitting at a 4 chair table. Up walks this tall tall man coming from the bar inside, drink in hand. He sits down, looks at all three of us one at a time and says " Nice hats boys ". Long story short, after blinking a half dozen times I realized this is Mike Timlin!!! He sat and shot the sh*t with us for close to an hour. Still have a group photo on my Facebook...he's as nice a guy in person, as he seems on camera.

I remember the playoff games all went late. We were up till midnight 1, 2 watching. We had to win 4 in a row and did it. The WS with St Louis was more an afterthought as we blew right over them. The best series ever IMO.

In spite of Everything Johnny Damon did in a Red Sox uniform (and I do appreciate what he did), I will never, ever forget how he got Red Sox Nation fired up by saying he would never play for the skankees, then he pulled a Benedict Arnold and signed with them. I got no problem with people playing anywhere they choose, but don't tell your fanbase that you refuse to join the enemy, then join the enemy. It would of been better if he didn't say anything. Then I wouldn't of cared so much.

I was still shocked with the Normar trade that season

Cowboy up, you legends! Good to see No-Mah as well. I really wish he'd been part of it all at the end.

Great memories! I never thought the Sox would win the WS in my lifetime and I'll bet lots of other Sox old-timers felt the same. What a huge thrill!

This was the most exciting, emotionally charged games I’ve ever watched. I was going insane when Mueller got that home run. This is the one regular season game I will remember for the rest of my life.

Love the way Varitek slap Alex Rodriguez's face with his catchers mitt 😂

15:54 I have ALWAYS wondered what caused the A-Rod / Varitek fight, THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS !!!

No question this The Greatest Moment in Boston. All 6 Super Bowls were crazy as well but Red Sox breaking the Curse was what us fans Were waiting for for 86 years. I was 23 when they won it all but i know the feeling for people 30 years old +. Now 17 years later 3 More World Series titles followed but this was the Best of the 4.

I am a Japanese girl living in Scotland. Ever tried explaining the Yanks/Sox rivalry to a country raised on the religious hatred of Celtic vs Rangers 😂😂 I am a baseball fan in a land of soccer hooligans 😂

I never realized how toxic and salty the Yankee fans were until I read these comments.

Who’s here after the Yankees fan chucked a ball at Verdugo. Classless display. Sox will always prevail! 💯

Every time I hear that Tessie song it reminds me of MVP Baseball 2005

Both of the teams bring the best out of each other. I have been a Yankees fan for 40 years. Thank you Boston.

2004 ALCS was our World Series. Sure, we swept St. Louis, but let's be real, that ALCS was EVERYTHING 😍

Got tickets for the July 24th game for me and my wife(her first time at a Yankee Red Sox game. Had first base grandstand seats. So it all. Greatest game ever(extra special was sharing this with my wife)

Mike Timlin came back and killed us! Ex-Cardinal wins the WS with his new team against his old team!

i was at that game. I was 14. it's a great memory.

Now that is a great thumbnail 👏🏻💪🏼

Between 2003-2008 was the height of the rivalry for me. Every regular season game felt so important.

To this day if I ever saw Tek or anyone from that team, I'd buy them a beer.

July 24th 2004 was the turning point for the redsox and their history. 4 championships in 15 years and counting!! Lets go redsox!! Love ya❤

Red Sox Nation 💯

I love this game and since then, I became a Red Sox fan. Go Red Sox!

I was born in 1957,To see all of the great RED SOX Teams come so close and all those Heart ache years. And 2004 was the year too see my team come to GREATNESS...NO Ball club could STOP the inevitable from happening .I was so glad CAPTAIN CARL #8 ,Was alive and kicking to see 2004 💪💪💪

I' m from Italy. Always a fan of Red Sox.

Unbelievable that 2004 season !!! I loved it cant explain the feeling

Great video

Im from California and i got Red Sox Blood running through my veins. Thank you boys for the good memories.👍👌

HAD TEAM - 86 YRS THANK U A ROD, THAT FIGHT AND WIN CHANGE COURSE OF SEASON AND HISTORY

fans Red Sox forever

The one dislike is a yankee

This was the weekend my son went to Marine boot camp on Sunday. This was when I started watching more and more, and more baseball. The Boston Red Sox had a lifelong fan.

My favorite video game growing up was MVP baseball 2005 with Manny on the cover! I used to love the dropkick murphy's song on that soundtrack! Memories

My brother was born in 2004, just mere months before the World Series. I was born in 2007, mere weeks before the World Series that year. My mother is a die-hard Red Sox fan since her dad used to work for the T on the green line and she would sometimes come down and visit him at work and they would go to Fenway to see the Red Sox play. She watched season after heartbreaking season of the Red Sox failure, and then when she married my dad and had me and my brother, the Red Sox finally got it done. She’s always joked that my brother and I were the Sox’s good luck charms.

Do you believe In miracles. I've been a Red Sox fan since 2004. 17 years strong. Boston Strong.

I was at school in Boston for the 2003/2004 seasons, living about a half mile from Fenway. As a lifelong Sox fan, there was no better place to be. You would hear a roar come from Fenway, know something crazy had happened then see it on tv after the broadcast delay. I vividly remember dancing on top of overturned cars on Lansdowne after we took out Oakland in the 03 ALDS. Everything else aside, it’s difficult to fully express the insanity of the 04 ALCS to anybody who wasn’t living there and sooo heavily invested in it. I was at Berklee studying music production so *at least* during the day I was able to dwell amongst the music nerds and get a mental break from the insanity. But every night after game 3 was a long, protracted anxiety attack. Extra innings, elimination at every turn, walk-offs, bloody socks, controversy, record setting victory. Forget the 04 World Series…that was just the final nail in the coffin. It’s all about the 2004 ALCS. To this day, that remains the single greatest baseball series I’ve seen. It *might* be the greatest 7 game series ever played…

At 22:11 look at Mariano Rivera’s left arm. It has some shiny stuff on it right on his forearm but nowhere else on either arms lol. Idk spider tack was being used back then lol

I was 13 in 2004 was amazing I was so happy my grandma unfortunately died after the Sox won it and she missed 2007 2013 and 2018 she loved the Red Sox so much miss her so much ❤❤🙏🙏

One of the greatest years as a Red Sox fan of my life! 2004 definitely made up for the massive disappointment of the 1986 year when I was a little kid. We own the Stankees now.

Not just in baseball... IN SPORTS

Red Sox nation!

Trading Nomar a few days later was also part of the turning point. Cabrera brought something to that team that was needed.

No. The turning point was when Roberts stole second base in the ALCS game 4 that year. Period.

This game had it all chaos,suspense and a wild ending. Plus Varitek punched Alex rodriguez in the face it was awesome.

The 2004 Red Sox were the comeback kids of that year because after being down 3-0 to the Yankees and then come back to win all four games was out of this world and I was so happy for Boston because I live in Massachusetts. And on a side note I have a you tube channel type in Russell Mills May 22, 2017

Reds fan here I have a real appreciation for the Yankees Red Sox rivalry Cub fans & Cardinals fans believe their rivalry is right there with Yankees Red Sox they aren’t even close.

Go Sox. Keep this great content coming!!!

Thx A-Rod.

Almost had a stroke watching 2003 Bost-NY post season.

Ed K here.. I was at the game behind home plate within earshot of A-Rod.. the night before A-Rod did a dirty slide into second so we were yelling at the top of our lungs at him calling him a dirty player .. I think we got under his skin because he was hit by an off speed pitch.. the rest is history !

Chemistry is the most important part of any team. I truly hope that the 2024 management team for the Sox understands this. If the players are happy with the team they are a part of, they will excel.

Back then Yankees Red Sox was must see television! The rivalry is dead now, but the stories live on.

Giants v Dodgers is the best rivalry in baseball. It spans the country and the teams have been pretty evenly matched for over a century.

My college catch Dana caught the game winning home run in this game.

This is why varitek was the captain he stood up for his teammate and was not gonna let anything happen to him

Great rivalry

It's shame this didn't mention the American League Championship Series (ALCS) of 2004, which was Yankees vs. Red Sox. For the first time in the entire history of professional baseball, a team (the Red Sox) won a seven game series after losing the first three games. Game 3 was especially demoralizing for the Sox, losing 19-8 in their first home game of the series to go down 3 games to none in the best-of-seven. The Sox squeezed out extra inning wins at home in games 4 (with a blown save from Mariano Rivera tying the game in the 9th inning) and 5, then miraculously took the next two in Yankee Stadium. Game 6 of the series became known as the "bloody sock" game; Sox pitcher Curt Schilling had some temporary sutures to hold a tendon in place within his injured ankle to allow him to pitch.

Im crying!!!!

I am 62 soon to be 63, I hate the Yankees, it is who I am. My Family showed all the games we lost against them, cannot tell you all the games I saw, not only the Yankees, Bob Gibson, St. Lous Cardinals and SO MUCH MORE. In 1967 I became a bonafide Red Sox Fan and have never looked back, NO MATTER WHAT. One more thing, I hate the Habs too, lol

I remember I Iwas fishing on the beach in Rhode Island with my Yankeehater hat on when I ran into a Yankees fan, who said that I was a dying breed, and should just give up. I told him we will see in October. Wish I could have run into him again after the 3-0 choke.

Next to the Giants/Dodgers rivalry, going back to the days when both teams were based in New York.

Some of us have been around long enough to see them all

I was there.

when i was growing up this was the sports rivalry i hated the red sox with a passion since i was a yankees fans this is the last great baseball rivalry nothing will ever match how much hatred there was between both sides at its peak

The Sox are the best

Yankee fan here but i respect this

Good things come to those who wait 👍

The Yankees signed Babe Ruth, Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens three of the greatest Red Sox ever.. plus Johnny Damon and Jacoby Ellsbury. If the Red Sox sign Judge, the Yankees would see would see how it feels.

this happened on the day I was born!

Thats why I believe in the Red Sox no matter who they have on there team. Every year i will support them

Yankees...breaking my heart since 1978

Can you just make a loop of A-rod getting karma by Varitek?

Im British. I have not a clue on this.

In actuality it was about 2 abd a half weeks later when the Sox really turned it on in early to mid August. After they traded a disgruntled Nomar, and got some pieces that would later play a huge part in October. The Sox got to within a half game of the Yanks, after a incredible ( another) comeback against Mariano Friday night. Thanks in part to Kenny Lofton going half heartedly after a fly ball. They had good success against Mariano ,the greatest closer ever that year. But a rumored hungover Derek Lowe was blasted the next day and list a heartbreaker that Sunday. The Sox would go on to take 2 out of three the next week at the stadium, but finished a very respectable 2 games behind. That year NESN did a post season rally and really got the fans going. The Angels were just the warm up act. Big Papi was born, and there was that feeling we never felt before. Even down 3 - 0 we believed. Something was different this year. Magical, mystic. Hard to believe it's been almost 20 yrs. What a time to be a Sox, Patriot fan. A Boston Fan as well. It's something missing badly today.

I think I'd like to have heard MORE about the rain and the condition of the field.

I was at the fight in 2003 and 2004.

would love

Wait, has anyone mentioned LA Thunderbirds/ NY Bombers in roller derby??

It was not anymore. Respect for Kevin Millar, can’t hate the guy for believing. He was spot on!

Nobody gonna talk about Joe Sweating bullets haha

One of the greatest rivalries in american sports in general

'03-'04 Sox-Yanks was as good as it gets.

Happy July 24th!

Mueller's comments were very funny. As a Yankees fan this rivalry and these series were so much fun, nothing better than beginning of September and yanks in first and Sox in 2nd, were more fun when Yanks won but... What was INCREDIBLY annoying was all of Boston (Sox and people) try to claim NOmah was anywhere near Jeter! C'mon man NO NO NO NO