The Barnicle brothers get every beat just right. The aching pain before the joy, the tension and sadness before, as a candid and often hilarious Theo Epstein calls it, the catharsis.
If that was the case, then the Minnesota Twins-Atlanta Braves matchup from the 1991 World Series and the Cincinnati Reds-Boston Red Sox clash from 1975 still wouldn’t both be considered the gold ...