Maybe i'm stupid, but I consider last year for my Red Sox to be nothing close to a "failure". I watch just about every game during the season, and that season was the greatest one I have seen in my lifetime. Yea I was dissapointed that they lost the way they lost in the end...but I went into the playoffs just praying for one thing. One thing that would be the cherry on top of an incredible Baseball season...A Yankees/Red Sox ALCS. That's what I want every year for the ALCS honestly. There is no better thing in Baseball for me than a 7 game series in October between the Yankees and Red Sox.
I got what I wanted, and it came on the heels of an incredibly exciting Oakland Wild Card Series...Which was topped for me when I was jumping around hugging everyone up in the "Monster Seats" at Fenway Park when Trot Nixon hit the game-winning homerun of Game 3.
The ONLY thing better than being in that atmosphere at THAT game was having my wish come true, getting the NY/BOS ALCS.