Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe comments on the playoff possibility for the Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, the only other team and fanbase that could possibly understand Boston’s plight before the millennium came: “In 2003, baseball’s lovable losers, the Cubs and Red Sox, were each one win away from advancing to the World Series. It never happened, of course; although the Red Sox have since won three titles to end their long drought, the Cubs haven’t been to the World Series since 1945 or won it since 1908.”
A remarkable movie was also done through ESPN called Catching Hell, where comparisons are made between the infamous Bill Buckner mistake and the Steve Bartman scapegoat scandal.