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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 1814305" data-attributes="member: 6521">Not really. The "curse" isn't about defeating the Yankees -- they've one their division, and thus defeated the Yankees on more than one occasion. Nor was it about defeating the Yankees in a post-season series -- that wasn't even a possibility until three-division play, so it wouldn't be a very meaningful curse. (Not that it is one, anyway... but even when it was invented in 1990, a Sox/Yankees post-season series was outside the realm of possibility.)The curse is about winning a World Series. It's about heartbreak at the last possible second. Last year might not even be worthy of curse lore, being that they never even made it to the World Series -- were it not the Yankees that kept them out.This isn't to say that the Yankees aren't part of the Curse. They are -- and beating them in a best of seven series (after being down 0-3, wow) is definitely a huge stride against it. But if the Red Sox don't win this year, that "World Series Victories Post-1918" line still reads: "Yankees 26, Red Sox 0." There won't be an asterisk saying "but the Red Sox did beat the Yankees after being down 0-3." There is no room for asterisks in the curse. If the Red Sox lose, 2004 will be remembered as the year that they came back to beat the Yankees, and still couldn't win the World Series.Curse ain't over. Yet.</blockquote>