This was in the mailbag to Bill Simmons, excellent sportswriter for ESPN and die-hard Boston fan:
As a diehard Yankee fan, I'd like to pull a Whoever That Was In The 1991 World Series Before Game 7 Started and offer a handshake to you and yours for coming back so dramatically.
The problem is, I'm so numb and limp from the past three nights I can't lift my arms, hands, or head off my desk. If the Yankees lose I'm not writing you anymore, because I will throw myself first under a bus, and then a train. I'm a Cub fan too, so I know where to find the big buses that make it hurt more.
No matter your ALCS party affiliation, though, there's no denying that this is outstanding for baseball, and so I'm thankful for it no matter the outcome tonight. This is equal to the 1975 World Series, to me, and the single-most important game of my lifetime -- the curse of the Bambino could actually DIE tonight after 85 years.
A Yankee loss will be like God coming down to hold a press conference and answer all the great questions of humanity. The only thing that can trump this, for sheer mind-shattering, I Do Not Know How To Handle This magnitude, would be a Cubs World Series title. Tonight is one of the great nights in baseball history, and we get to see it.
This is awesome.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/cowbell/041020