Imagine a universe in which Ellis Kinder outpitched Vic Raschi on the final day of the 1949 season, Mike Torrez struck out Bucky Dent in the playoff game at Fenway in 1978 and Grady Little pulled Pedro Martinez with a 5-2 lead after seven innings of work in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS.
You’re living in it.
The Curse of the Bambino has been wiped off the face of the earth just like the ancient island of Atlantis. If you couldn’t look it up, as Casey Stengel would have advised, then New York’s historic dominance over Boston following the sale of Babe Ruth the day after Christmas in 1919 would be regarded as fable to this generation subsisting in a time of Red Sox rule.