For Raptors fans still smarting after the team was swept 4-0 in
the second playoff round after a record-breaking 59 win regular
season, here are my top 5 all time sports collapses following
seeming sure-fire harbingers for success, that will keep your (and
my) misery company:
1. New York Yankees 2004 American League Championship
Series
No Major League baseball team had previously come back to win a
seven game post-season series after falling behind 3 games to none.
The Yankees were up by that margin over their hated foe the Boston
Red Sox in the 2004 AL Championship Series and leading by a run in
the eighth inning. To seal the deal, they brought in the greatest
reliever in baseball, Mariano Rivera, and asked him to give them a
two-inning save. He made it through the eighth, but in the ninth, a
walk, a stolen base and a single tied the game. The teams played
extra innings into the twelfth, where the Red Sox won it with a
home run. The next game went into extra
