I'm beginning to think that there are Red Sox fans among the people who write the questions for Jeopardy! (Or, at least, people who dislike the Yankees, which is every sensible person in the world.) On today's show, for example, there was a category devoted entirely to Yankee failures. And while it may be petty, stories of Yankee failure make me glad. The questions (for your reveling pleasure):
$400: "Next year" finally came to this team's fans in 1955, when its "bums" finally beat the Yanks in the series for the first time in six tries.
$800: The Yankees lost Game 7 of the 1926 World Series when this portly gent was thrown out trying to steal second base.
$1200: A "big red machine" from this city ran right over the Yankees in a four-game sweep of the 1976 World Series.
$1600: In 2004 this team came back from a 3-games-to-0 deficit and beat the Yanks for the A.L. pennant; revenge gets no sweeter.
$ 2000: This ace L.A. lefty dominated the Yanks in the 1963 World Series, striking out 23 and beating them twice in a 4-game sweep.
*Contented sigh*
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