WEBVTT 00:01.201 --> 00:02.402 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - That's the first time I was really starting to 00:02.402 --> 00:05.071 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% feel the weight of what you had taken on. 00:05.972 --> 00:08.108 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Back then as a Red Sox fan 00:09.275 --> 00:11.778 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Calvin Schiraldi trying to finish 00:11.778 --> 00:14.848 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% off the Mets and the 1986 baseball season 00:16.249 --> 00:18.585 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - I was in the sixth grade at the Timothy School 00:18.585 --> 00:20.553 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% in the South end, lower Roxbury. 00:20.553 --> 00:23.757 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And we lived and died in every game. 00:23.757 --> 00:24.991 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Every pitch. 00:24.991 --> 00:28.528 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% '86 was to me what '67 was to the elders 00:28.528 --> 00:30.930 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% or '75 was to the generation after them. 00:30.930 --> 00:33.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The '86 season, we're all in 00:35.035 --> 00:36.002 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% - And that's it. 00:36.002 --> 00:37.771 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% The dead center with Henderson 00:37.771 --> 00:38.938 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% gonna run it down 00:40.940 --> 00:43.977 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the Mets are down to their last out. 00:43.977 --> 00:47.247 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - We're one out away from something happening 00:47.247 --> 00:52.118 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% that everybody in the city has waited to see since 1918. 00:52.118 --> 00:54.921 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - And Roger Clemens hoping for that last out. 00:54.921 --> 00:56.990 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - Parents are waking up infants, so they will see this. 00:56.990 --> 00:58.525 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They will witness this history. 00:58.525 --> 00:59.793 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% You're gonna see the Red Sox win the World Series. 00:59.793 --> 01:01.928 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Didn't do it in Grandma or Grandpa's lifetime. 01:01.928 --> 01:03.029 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% You're gonna see it. 01:03.029 --> 01:05.165 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% - Line in the left field 01:05.165 --> 01:07.834 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% base hit for Carter and the Mets are still alive. 01:07.834 --> 01:11.337 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - So it was just me and my brother in the small den 01:11.337 --> 01:13.473 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% in our condo in Brookline. 01:13.473 --> 01:16.142 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Once it got to two outs, we said like, 01:16.142 --> 01:17.177 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% how are we gonna celebrate? 01:17.177 --> 01:18.845 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% So we decided that two of us, 01:18.845 --> 01:22.282 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% we stood up on the top of the couch up against the wall, 01:22.282 --> 01:23.783 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% watching the TV, we said 01:23.783 --> 01:25.285 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but the ball's going into the glove for the final out. 01:25.285 --> 01:28.221 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Like let's, let's jump off together in celebration 01:28.221 --> 01:29.756 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and we won't be connected to this earth. 01:29.756 --> 01:31.624 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% We'll remember it forever. 01:31.624 --> 01:34.294 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - And that's gonna be hit into center field base hit 01:35.328 --> 01:36.830 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% here comes Carter to score 01:36.830 --> 01:40.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and the time run is at third in Kevin Mitchell. 01:41.334 --> 01:43.436 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% - So I went down to the clubhouse 01:43.436 --> 01:45.538 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and rolling in the champagne and the ice, 01:45.538 --> 01:47.107 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and I'm watching all this and this is 01:47.107 --> 01:51.111 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% like this amazing thing, but I'm like, gosh, they 01:51.111 --> 01:54.047 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% they were in the final inning, like what is taking so long? 01:55.548 --> 01:57.750 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - And it's gonna go to the back stock. 01:57.750 --> 02:00.320 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Here comes Mitchell to score the tying run. 02:00.320 --> 02:03.022 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And Ray Knight is at second base. 02:06.759 --> 02:09.362 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Three and two to Mookie Wilson, 02:11.698 --> 02:14.701 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% little roller up along first behind the- 02:16.569 --> 02:19.272 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Here comes Knight and the Mets win it! 02:22.075 --> 02:24.110 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - From my apartment in the South End 02:24.110 --> 02:28.114 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I had a window open and when that happened 02:28.114 --> 02:32.719 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I could hear people yelling and moaning and crying. 02:35.188 --> 02:38.091 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - We were up on the couch and we just collapsed. 02:38.091 --> 02:39.626 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Just writhing around 02:39.626 --> 02:44.497 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% in emotional pain, life changing, scarring, emotional pain. 02:46.733 --> 02:49.636 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Certainly at that point you're realizing, 02:49.636 --> 02:51.971 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% man they're just never gonna win. 02:51.971 --> 02:53.139 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% They're never gonna win. 02:55.475 --> 02:56.776 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - Not only did they not win, 02:56.776 --> 02:58.845 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% they had these colossal screw-ups 02:58.845 --> 03:01.447 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% at end where they come close, they take you to the edge 03:01.447 --> 03:02.682 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and then they blow it. 03:02.682 --> 03:05.618 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% These things just keep happening over and over. 03:05.618 --> 03:07.921 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Your heart was broken every year and 03:07.921 --> 03:09.756 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and we all kind of went 03:09.756 --> 03:12.692 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% around the campfire and talked about our broken hearts 03:12.692 --> 03:16.095 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and then we sucked it up and we came back for another year. 03:18.464 --> 03:21.668 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - I finally understood what it meant 03:21.668 --> 03:24.204 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and what it felt like for like my teachers 03:24.204 --> 03:25.838 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and all the elders in the neighborhood who talked 03:25.838 --> 03:28.541 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% about the '67 team and the '75 team. 03:28.541 --> 03:30.310 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The Red Sox will break your heart. 03:30.310 --> 03:34.614 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% You know, like it happened to me at a young age. 03:34.614 --> 03:36.616 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - Two starts, two wins for Wells. 03:36.616 --> 03:39.152 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% As Ortiz gets into wonder, right? 03:39.152 --> 03:41.120 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% This one is at the wall and gone. 03:42.055 --> 03:44.791 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% David Ortiz greets David Wells 03:44.791 --> 03:46.626 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% with a first pitch home run to write. 03:46.626 --> 03:48.127 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% It's five two. 03:48.127 --> 03:50.330 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - I was there again in 2003. 03:50.330 --> 03:51.264 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% They're gonna win. 03:51.264 --> 03:52.498 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They're gonna beat the Yankees 03:52.498 --> 03:54.167 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% they're going to the World Series. 03:54.167 --> 03:57.570 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I called my father at, you know 03:57.570 --> 04:00.506 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% in the seventh or eighth inning and he said, oh dear 04:00.506 --> 04:02.008 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% you haven't learned anything. 04:03.176 --> 04:05.111 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And he said, you're gonna owe me a dollar. 04:05.111 --> 04:07.347 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And I'm like, not this time, dad. 04:07.347 --> 04:09.315 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - No. We're tied at five as we go. 04:09.315 --> 04:11.484 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The bottom of the 11th is Aaron Boone to lead 04:11.484 --> 04:13.686 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% off his first at bat of the game. 04:13.686 --> 04:16.422 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - There's a fly ball, keep to left, it's on its way. 04:16.422 --> 04:17.857 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% There it goes. 04:17.857 --> 04:20.760 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And the Yankees are going to the World Series. 04:20.760 --> 04:23.963 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Aaron Boone has hit a home run. 04:23.963 --> 04:26.065 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The Yankees go to the World Series 04:26.065 --> 04:29.736 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% for the 39th time in their remarkable history. 04:29.736 --> 04:33.840 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - And of course it all goes to hell. 04:33.840 --> 04:35.842 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And I gotta pay my dad a dollar. 04:35.842 --> 04:38.411 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So I sent him four quarters in an envelope. 04:38.411 --> 04:41.881 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I was just like, this is just ridiculous. 04:41.881 --> 04:42.949 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Just ridiculous.