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[QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4641935, member: 181"]
I was there, and have a photo from my right field bleacher seat a couple innings earlier. We had a perfect view of the ball's arc and instant certainty that it was a home run.

I  didn't quit following baseball until 1986, plus + Calvin Schirraldi's melt down series, and then finally a blown series during the Pedro Martinez years. I was so traumatized that I refused to watch the 2004 wins until late or extra innings, if at all. The World Series win was a foregone conclusion, but I avoided the joy & excitement of the American championship rather than risk the pain. Years later,a friend gave me a DVD about the season, and I was even anxious watching that, somehow worried there was some way that the outcome could change.

Everything I know about loss aversion I learned from being a Red Sox fan for as long as I've been a UConn MBB fan, going back to WTIC broadcasts on my first clock radio, back before the Beatles came to America.
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