i can't get enough of these:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/sports/baseball/21fans.html?adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1098371178-1Pf43Bo9S2PyTHvCd0nDlQBut more than that, the outcome was particularly painful for Yankees fans whose collective identity is more in line with the bravado of the grown man from Queens who arrived at the stadium dressed like a baby in mock Red Sox regalia - complete with pacifier - shouting "Who's your daddy?" than it is with losing, especially to Boston.
Even as the Red Sox took an early and commanding lead, Yankees fans refused to think the unthinkable.
"C'mon, we can't lose. It's Game 7," said Teri Buch, a teacher from Manhattan who watched the game at the News Room bar across from Yankee Stadium after she hadn't bothered buying a ticket to Game 7, assuming the Yankees would clinch the series in six games or less. (Ms. Buch does have a ticket to the World Series.)
"We always have a ghost on our side," Ms. Buch uttered in reverential reference to Babe Ruth just before David Ortiz cracked his home run in the first inning. "It would be horrible, but we're not going to lose."
As Boston's runs continued to pile up, that unwavering confidence began to sound like denial.
At the Gaslight Brewery in South Orange, after the Red Sox extended the lead to 8-1 in the fourth inning, Mr. Watson said he was confident the Yankees would come back. "We are not out of the game yet by any means," Mr. Watson said. "I'm not worried. But if it is this way at the top of the ninth, then I will be."
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