Very good
Being a Yankees fan and a native New Yorker (though I live elsewhere now), I really enjoyed this little HBO documentary. I'm fiercely anti-Bush, and I'm not particularly patriotic, but I remember the vibe in New York during that Series...especially after the two miraculous comebacks by the home team in Yankee Stadium in games four and five. There was this sense of hope and rejuvination...through the silliest and simplest of things: a game of baseball.
It was the best World Series I have seen. I'm 26, so I can't speak for some of the older Series, but the only peer this one had, for me was the 1991 Series between the Braves and Twins.
In any event, nearly each game was a mesmerizing duel, and, just a few miles from Ground Zero, I think it was great that the country, and, New York in particular, had something else to think about for a few days,less than two months after the sky seemed as if it was falling.
Is it a little simplistic to say that a game could "heal" a city and a nation that was mired in fear? Absolutely. Do I think that it helped get our minds off of what had happened, and show us that, indeed, our lives will still be our lives, terror or not....yep.
Good documentary from the network that excells in such.
"You can disappear here without even knowing it."
---Bret Easton Ellis
Less Than Zero