When I asked everyone to come up with their favorite Red Sox/Yankees memories, I’ll be honest: I expected almost all of them to be from 2004, 2007, or 2013. The seasons fans remember the best are the ones when the team wins it all, obviously. And that’s fine. There’s a reason those teams, players, and the rivalries they had with the Yankees were remembered. It was because they came out on top. Something the Red Sox had trouble doing for an entire lifetime of baseball.
In this sense, we’re spoiled. We have a lot of great memories over the past 14 years (plus, I’d argue there were some good moments in 2003!