The Boston Redsox, a major league baseball team, have not won a World Series title in 52 years. The cause of this long drought of losing seasons is debatable according to fans and sportswriters. The 2003 major league baseball season was the last attempt by the team to make it to the big game. The Boston Redsox would have to defeat their arch nemesis, the New York Yankees. Boston failed to defeat the Yankees in seven games in the American League championship series in 2003. Two years before that, the Boston Redsox were knocked out of the playoffs by the New York Yankees in five games. Can you see the pattern here? Why do the Redsox never win? Well, there is the curse that began fifty years ago with trading Babe Ruth off to the Yankees, Grady Little making poor coaching decisions, and the superior performance of the New York Yankees.
             Fifty years ago the Boston Redsox franchise made the worst trade in baseball history; the trade included Babe Ruth, a Boston player, and few other players that you wouldn't recognize today from the New York Yankees. This deal went down because the Redsox thought the players from New York were going to be the best interest for the team in the future. Many people could argue that move was the cause of the Redsox drought of destruction. Since the trade was finalized, The Bambino, Babe Ruth, went on to set many baseball records for the New York Yankees and won many World Series titles with the Yankees. The Redsox won nothing except a division title about every twelve years and have not won a World Series since they traded off the legend of baseball.
             Grady Little was the General Manager of the Boston Redsox the last 10 years. On October 20 2003, the night of game seven of the American League Championship series, Pedro Martinez, the Boston Ace, was on the mound stunning the Yankees offense with his off speed changeup and his devastating fastball. With the Redsox ahead of the Yankees 5-2 in the eighth inni...