Finally!

“The Yankees couldn’t save themselves. They couldn’t keep the egg from being splattered all over their faces. They couldn’t avoid being the first team in Major League Baseball to ever surrender a three-games-to-none series lead. … [T]he 2004 Yankees are poster boys for unprecedented failure. Hands down, they represent the biggest sporting collapse of all time.
— Karen Guregian, Boston Herald
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“Forevermore, the date goes into the New England calendar as an official no-school/no-work/no-mail-delivery holiday in Red Sox Nation. Mark it down. Oct. 20. It will always be the day that Sox citizens were liberated from 8 decades of torment and torture at the hands of the New York Yankees and their fans. Boston Baseball’s Bastille Day.”
– Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe
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“[T]his was more than just a baseball game last night. This was a passion play, a contemporary epic poem, the classic New England novel. This was about the Red Sox and overcoming their star-crossed past, this franchise that’s been around for over 100 years now, as much a part of New England as Paul Revere’s ride and the Old North Church. This was the Red Sox, and they transcended baseball around here a long time ago. Baseball is what little kids play on the sandlot.”
— Bill Reynolds, Providence Journal
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“Now, the single biggest postseason flop in baseball history does not belong to some Red Sox team or Boston goat such as Bill Buckner. Instead, the new and uncontested champions of the October gag are the New York Yankees.”
— Thomas Boswell, Washington Post
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“History was theirs for the taking, and the Boston Red Sox didn’t merely seize it Wednesday night — they grabbed it by the neck, put it in a headlock and wrestled it to the ground, much as they did to all those Yankee Stadium ghosts that have haunted them for so many years.”
— Mike DiGiovanna, L.A. Times
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“I sit here in journalistic shock. I am trying to digest the fact that I have just seen the greatest team feat in the 101-year history of postseason baseball as we know it. A team that fell behind, three games to none, has come back to win a postseason series. That team is the Boston Red Sox, and the team they have just victimized is the New York Yankees.”
–Bob Ryan, Boston Globe