I agree with those who say the Red Sox in 2004. I don't think it's close either. The way it unfolded over multiple nights, the history of the two teams, and the fact that it had never before occured in the history of a statistic-crazy sport where pretty much nothing anymore has "never happened" before. Add the drama of game 4 with Rivera on the mound, the brawl between the teams earlier in the year, and the way the teams finished the ALCS the year before, and you had probably the most captivating story in sports since the 1980 hockey team. Maybe other events were bigger "upsets" -- like a couple of the 1980s NCAA championships -- but none were so intense, dramatic, and, in the end, sports transcendent.