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If you have any interest in baseball, watch "The Comeback," the Netflix series about the 2004 Red Sox and their Reversal of the Curse! I just saw it and it was awesome. The big highlights are the extensive interviews with players, managers, and front office people from both the Red Sox and Yankees. I watched this season (including almost every minute of the ALCS) live, and have seen previous documentaries about it, plus read nearly every book published on it. But still many interesting new angles and insights. A big one is that I didn't fully appreciate how big the burden of the Curse and the painful 2003 defeat was on the players, and front office.

Sadly, Tim Wakefield died last year, and the producers couldn't interview him. Nomar Garciaparra refused to be interviewed (still bitter about being traded in the middle of the season, I think). George Steinbrenner died in 2010. But just about every other major participant in these events speaks, often at length: Ortiz, Schilling, Francona, Varitek, Theo Epstein, Joe Torre, Roger Clemens, and many more.

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