Ay, There's The Rub. Dave Barry, in his "Year In Review," notes that the Red Sox won the World Series despite at one point trailing in the ALCS three games to none, because the Yankees

chose that particular time to execute the most spectacular choke in all of sports history, an unbelievable Gag-o-Rama, a noxious nosedive, a pathetic gut-check failure of such epic dimensions that every thinking human outside of the New York Metropolitan area experienced a near-orgasmic level of happiness. But there is no need to rub it in.