You are playing a game of high stakes poker and it is now whittled down to two. You have three kings and are in a comfort zone anticipating a nice pot of cash, but three aces flop down and your dreams are ashes. Aces have a way of doing that in poker and baseball. The Boston Red Sox have aces, but they seem to turn into dueces in the playoffs.
In 2004, it was Curt Schilling and the whole “Bloody Sock” that became a catalyst for the Red Sox to dispense of the New York Yankees and later the same with the St.