1 00:00:01,201 --> 00:00:02,402 - That's the first time I was really starting to 2 00:00:02,402 --> 00:00:05,071 feel the weight of what you had taken on. 3 00:00:05,972 --> 00:00:08,108 Back then as a Red Sox fan 4 00:00:09,275 --> 00:00:11,778 - Calvin Schiraldi trying to finish 5 00:00:11,778 --> 00:00:14,848 off the Mets and the 1986 baseball season 6 00:00:16,249 --> 00:00:18,585 - I was in the sixth grade at the Timothy School 7 00:00:18,585 --> 00:00:20,553 in the South end, lower Roxbury. 8 00:00:20,553 --> 00:00:23,757 And we lived and died in every game. 9 00:00:23,757 --> 00:00:24,991 Every pitch. 10 00:00:24,991 --> 00:00:28,528 '86 was to me what '67 was to the elders 11 00:00:28,528 --> 00:00:30,930 or '75 was to the generation after them. 12 00:00:30,930 --> 00:00:33,266 The '86 season, we're all in 13 00:00:35,035 --> 00:00:36,002 - And that's it. 14 00:00:36,002 --> 00:00:37,771 The dead center with Henderson 15 00:00:37,771 --> 00:00:38,938 gonna run it down 16 00:00:40,940 --> 00:00:43,977 and the Mets are down to their last out. 17 00:00:43,977 --> 00:00:47,247 - We're one out away from something happening 18 00:00:47,247 --> 00:00:52,118 that everybody in the city has waited to see since 1918. 19 00:00:52,118 --> 00:00:54,921 - And Roger Clemens hoping for that last out. 20 00:00:54,921 --> 00:00:56,990 - Parents are waking up infants, so they will see this. 21 00:00:56,990 --> 00:00:58,525 They will witness this history. 22 00:00:58,525 --> 00:00:59,793 You're gonna see the Red Sox win the World Series. 23 00:00:59,793 --> 00:01:01,928 Didn't do it in Grandma or Grandpa's lifetime. 24 00:01:01,928 --> 00:01:03,029 You're gonna see it. 25 00:01:03,029 --> 00:01:05,165 - Line in the left field 26 00:01:05,165 --> 00:01:07,834 base hit for Carter and the Mets are still alive. 27 00:01:07,834 --> 00:01:11,337 - So it was just me and my brother in the small den 28 00:01:11,337 --> 00:01:13,473 in our condo in Brookline. 29 00:01:13,473 --> 00:01:16,142 Once it got to two outs, we said like, 30 00:01:16,142 --> 00:01:17,177 how are we gonna celebrate? 31 00:01:17,177 --> 00:01:18,845 So we decided that two of us, 32 00:01:18,845 --> 00:01:22,282 we stood up on the top of the couch up against the wall, 33 00:01:22,282 --> 00:01:23,783 watching the TV, we said 34 00:01:23,783 --> 00:01:25,285 but the ball's going into the glove for the final out. 35 00:01:25,285 --> 00:01:28,221 Like let's, let's jump off together in celebration 36 00:01:28,221 --> 00:01:29,756 and we won't be connected to this earth. 37 00:01:29,756 --> 00:01:31,624 We'll remember it forever. 38 00:01:31,624 --> 00:01:34,294 - And that's gonna be hit into center field base hit 39 00:01:35,328 --> 00:01:36,830 here comes Carter to score 40 00:01:36,830 --> 00:01:40,233 and the time run is at third in Kevin Mitchell. 41 00:01:41,334 --> 00:01:43,436 - So I went down to the clubhouse 42 00:01:43,436 --> 00:01:45,538 and rolling in the champagne and the ice, 43 00:01:45,538 --> 00:01:47,107 and I'm watching all this and this is 44 00:01:47,107 --> 00:01:51,111 like this amazing thing, but I'm like, gosh, they 45 00:01:51,111 --> 00:01:54,047 they were in the final inning, like what is taking so long? 46 00:01:55,548 --> 00:01:57,750 - And it's gonna go to the back stock. 47 00:01:57,750 --> 00:02:00,320 Here comes Mitchell to score the tying run. 48 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,022 And Ray Knight is at second base. 49 00:02:06,759 --> 00:02:09,362 Three and two to Mookie Wilson, 50 00:02:11,698 --> 00:02:14,701 little roller up along first behind the- 51 00:02:16,569 --> 00:02:19,272 Here comes Knight and the Mets win it! 52 00:02:22,075 --> 00:02:24,110 - From my apartment in the South End 53 00:02:24,110 --> 00:02:28,114 I had a window open and when that happened 54 00:02:28,114 --> 00:02:32,719 I could hear people yelling and moaning and crying. 55 00:02:35,188 --> 00:02:38,091 - We were up on the couch and we just collapsed. 56 00:02:38,091 --> 00:02:39,626 Just writhing around 57 00:02:39,626 --> 00:02:44,497 in emotional pain, life changing, scarring, emotional pain. 58 00:02:46,733 --> 00:02:49,636 - Certainly at that point you're realizing, 59 00:02:49,636 --> 00:02:51,971 man they're just never gonna win. 60 00:02:51,971 --> 00:02:53,139 They're never gonna win. 61 00:02:55,475 --> 00:02:56,776 - Not only did they not win, 62 00:02:56,776 --> 00:02:58,845 they had these colossal screw-ups 63 00:02:58,845 --> 00:03:01,447 at end where they come close, they take you to the edge 64 00:03:01,447 --> 00:03:02,682 and then they blow it. 65 00:03:02,682 --> 00:03:05,618 These things just keep happening over and over. 66 00:03:05,618 --> 00:03:07,921 - Your heart was broken every year and 67 00:03:07,921 --> 00:03:09,756 and we all kind of went 68 00:03:09,756 --> 00:03:12,692 around the campfire and talked about our broken hearts 69 00:03:12,692 --> 00:03:16,095 and then we sucked it up and we came back for another year. 70 00:03:18,464 --> 00:03:21,668 - I finally understood what it meant 71 00:03:21,668 --> 00:03:24,204 and what it felt like for like my teachers 72 00:03:24,204 --> 00:03:25,838 and all the elders in the neighborhood who talked 73 00:03:25,838 --> 00:03:28,541 about the '67 team and the '75 team. 74 00:03:28,541 --> 00:03:30,310 The Red Sox will break your heart. 75 00:03:30,310 --> 00:03:34,614 You know, like it happened to me at a young age. 76 00:03:34,614 --> 00:03:36,616 - Two starts, two wins for Wells. 77 00:03:36,616 --> 00:03:39,152 As Ortiz gets into wonder, right? 78 00:03:39,152 --> 00:03:41,120 This one is at the wall and gone. 79 00:03:42,055 --> 00:03:44,791 David Ortiz greets David Wells 80 00:03:44,791 --> 00:03:46,626 with a first pitch home run to write. 81 00:03:46,626 --> 00:03:48,127 It's five two. 82 00:03:48,127 --> 00:03:50,330 - I was there again in 2003. 83 00:03:50,330 --> 00:03:51,264 They're gonna win. 84 00:03:51,264 --> 00:03:52,498 They're gonna beat the Yankees 85 00:03:52,498 --> 00:03:54,167 they're going to the World Series. 86 00:03:54,167 --> 00:03:57,570 I called my father at, you know 87 00:03:57,570 --> 00:04:00,506 in the seventh or eighth inning and he said, oh dear 88 00:04:00,506 --> 00:04:02,008 you haven't learned anything. 89 00:04:03,176 --> 00:04:05,111 And he said, you're gonna owe me a dollar. 90 00:04:05,111 --> 00:04:07,347 And I'm like, not this time, dad. 91 00:04:07,347 --> 00:04:09,315 - No. We're tied at five as we go. 92 00:04:09,315 --> 00:04:11,484 The bottom of the 11th is Aaron Boone to lead 93 00:04:11,484 --> 00:04:13,686 off his first at bat of the game. 94 00:04:13,686 --> 00:04:16,422 - There's a fly ball, keep to left, it's on its way. 95 00:04:16,422 --> 00:04:17,857 There it goes. 96 00:04:17,857 --> 00:04:20,760 And the Yankees are going to the World Series. 97 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,963 Aaron Boone has hit a home run. 98 00:04:23,963 --> 00:04:26,065 The Yankees go to the World Series 99 00:04:26,065 --> 00:04:29,736 for the 39th time in their remarkable history. 100 00:04:29,736 --> 00:04:33,840 - And of course it all goes to hell. 101 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:35,842 And I gotta pay my dad a dollar. 102 00:04:35,842 --> 00:04:38,411 So I sent him four quarters in an envelope. 103 00:04:38,411 --> 00:04:41,881 I was just like, this is just ridiculous. 104 00:04:41,881 --> 00:04:42,949 Just ridiculous.