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I still remember Boones HR man, that was a killer for Boston being beat by their rivals like that.
No matter how many times you say this, it doesn't make it true. Rockets haven't gone 80+ years without a championship. They aren't playing their historical rivals. They aren't deciding games in extra innings/overtime. Oh, and on top of it, no team has come back from being down 3-0 since.
I still remember Boones HR man, that was a killer for Boston being beat by their rivals like that.
I understand the Red Sox were jinxed against the Yankees and oh yeah, no team ever came back from 3-0 down. The Rockets would have to come back against the MVP of the league and one of the 15-20 best teams, by regular season accomplishment, in the history of the NBA. And they'd have to win twice in the toughest arena to win at in the NBA.
Baseball is a bit different, in that teams never beat teams in sense. Even though the '04 Yankees weren't as dominant as the Golden State Warriors from a team standpoint, they had Mariano Rivera, who blew back-to-back saves, something that he's never done in his post-season career. The statistical unlikelihood of beating Rivera consecutively was in itself astronomical. Factor that into the additional statistical unlikelihood of coming back from 0-3, and you have the most improbable comeback in the history of sports.
If the Rockets pull it off, it'll definitely rank top 5, though.
However, if Houston does something bizarre, like come back from 3 consecutive 15-20 point 4th quarter deficits (beating Rivera is somewhat analogous to that) , then we'll have a debate.
What's the statistical odds of winning at a loud arena only 3 teams have won at all season twice against one of best teams of all-time, by record anyways? It would be improbable by definition if the Rockets even got it to a Game 7 (only 3 NBA teams in 70 years have done so after being down 3-0).
I didn't even mention that the Yankees just went to the World Series the year before... (They lost to the Marlins, so they weren't champs.) AND they did it after a 7 game series the year before, in which the Sox lost in extra innings in the 7th game, with Wakefield giving up the hit after coming in on short rest after dominating them in Game 4. Game 7 was the famous game where Grady left Martinez in too long, which got him fired, which led to o Francona taking over the job and leading us to the 2004 le. There was a ridiculous amount of layers to the Sox comeback in 2004. It will never be topped, if you're counting all sports. If you're just counting NBA, yeah, it's probably at the top or at least near it.
Well, we only have this post-season to use as a sample size. We can't really appeal to their regular season mark, since the post-season is pretty much a different animal. Memphis did manage to win there, so it is possible.
In the Rivera example, he had 1 blown save over 9 years, and was something like 32 and 1 before the Sox cracked him twice-in-a-row.
The D'Backs cracked him as well. I ain't ever heard the end of that, trust me.
That bloop single.
Sigh, what's your point Boston homer? A Rockets comeback in this series would be virtually the same as a Red Sox comeback in improbability. Take off the green shades, break the Shelagh and eat the shamrock with your dinner.
Yep, rarely a regular season home game goes by that they don't show the billboard out in center field citing that WS. Not a gd thing I can do but sit there on that Lazy Boy and seeth.
Girl had run me off from the house that nite during the game,,,I drove over to 75th Avenue, parked behind the Staples there, too nervous to turn on the radio. I'm sittin' there in the pitch dark when all the sudden there are fireworks going off in the neighborhood to my back. I see 'em in the rear view mirror. I'm thinkin' who the is lighting fireworks off in October. Then it dawned on me. I turn on the radio. ! I drive home, walk in & there's the old lady: "Woo Hoo!!!"
They ain't much now, so you're good.
Oh, it's great too. Though they still have a mouth on 'em. Always sniping at the Dodgers.
We have a way of putting them in their place, much like my Spurs have a way of putting the Suns in their place. Regrettably, they've (DBacks) scratched more recently than us.
"Gonzalez digs in at the plate... and a little blooper, base hit! Diamondbacks win! They're the World Champions! Gonzalez did it! The Diamondbacks have unseated the New York Yankees as the World Champions! Folks, it doesn't get any better than that. Honk your horns, stomp your feet. Celebrate in Arizona! The Diamondbacks have won the World Series."
He'd roided up so gd mighty he was able to muscle that thing into the outfield.
Not a gd thing I could do, but, take it. & oh, yeah, they have him on the radio once a month, they go on & on about it. That's when I come on here and attack somebody ad hoc. It's either that, or, beat Girl.
A couple years ago when Puig showed up on the coast it just pissed the D'Backs off. They come here for a series early on and they send Gonzalez over to Puig to bait him. He told Gonzo to get lost, well, vamoose in his vernacular. You'd a thought somebody died or lost money. Gonzo cried and pissed & moaned and the radio station was incensed and outraged.
Had nothing to do with roids. Rivera set the stage with that Little League throwing error trying to throw out David Delluci at second. Then on the penultimate play, the Yankees brought the infield in, even though Rivera's tendency to throw inside to lefties left him susceptible to giving up bloop singles in the shallow outfield. McCarver called it right before it happened.
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You're right.
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Obviously I'm a homer, but so are you. An impartial observer would look at the storied history of the Sox and Yankees, the way stuff happened in 2003, the dramatic storylines to the 2004 ALCS (remember Schilling's bloody red sock?), and I think it would be relatively easy to state that comeback is "greater". Heck, even statistically it's likely more impressive... baseball has been around a lot longer than basketball, after all. (Though the numbers might be somewhat similar, due to the NBA having more rounds... someone would have to do the same.)
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