there used to be some kind of unwritten macho achievement to be able to shatter a backboard with a dunk. i think that may also have applied to pulling down a rim/backboard.
so because the of that one singular, cherry-picked moment in time, the red sox were able to win a WS in '04, '07, and '13?
man, that's quite a domino chain. if only he had known then what you know now.