All right. We aren't going to get into the middle of sports' greatest rivalry. We aren't even located anywhere near Boston or New York, and there are maybe two staff members here that were born or raised on the East Coast. Our only allegiance in our commendation of the Boston Red Sox is history. And history was, in fact, made late Wednesday night.

The 2004 Boston Red Sox are only the third team in the history of American professional sports to come back from being down three games in a best-of-seven series. If you're a Yankees fan, Wednesday night's Game 7 probably broke your heart. But if you're a Boston fan, Game 7 probably broke your heart, too, but in a "70 percent blockage combined with cathartic bliss" way. If you were lucky enough to see Wednesday night's game, you know from looking into the stands at Yankee Stadium that Yankees versus Red Sox is about more than baseball, and what took place on the field is going to be talked about in 20 years like we talk about Carlton Fisk, Bill Buckner and Bucky Dent today.

The Red Sox are playing in their first World Series since 1986, and haven't won the damned thing since 1918. There are some Red Sox fans who did not live to see the Sox win a World Series ring and still had the distinction of dying from old age. Red Sox fans and Yankees fans transcend the idea of what a "fan" really is. To have these two teams and their two respective legions sweat out what will probably be considered the best series of playoff baseball is divine - we should consider it a gift.

Even if you're not a fan of baseball, or not a fan of the Red Sox, give them a tip of your cap for making not only baseball history, but actual history. Earlier in the series at Fenway Park, a fan held up a sign that said "Make history or we're history." Truer words never written.