Expectations once again ran high that 2004 would finally be the year that the Red Sox ended their championship drought.

No other city with at least two professional sports teams has a championship drought as long, as of 2012 (49 years).

That celebration, after an 18-year championship drought, was wildly jubilant, but no more so than yesterday's.

After recording two outs in the bottom of the 10th, the Red Sox were one strike away from breaking their championship drought.

At the time, no other city with all four professional sports teams had a championship drought last as long as that from 1983-2008 (25 Years).

In 1918, the team won its fifth World Series, and then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history.

Healy's departure leaves the Rangers with only nine players from the team that broke the 54-year championship drought.

One thing was certain: one team's championship drought would end sooner or later.

But the team has a championship drought for 22 years.