Diamondbacks Troll Yankees After MLB Celebrates Anniversary of Derek Jeter Becoming Mr. November

If you beat the Yankees in the most depressing way they've ever been beaten, then you get to gloat forever.

It's the golden rule of baseball. If the Yankees win something, the rest of the world forgets immediately. If they lose, the still image gets framed on the wall of every sports bar from Boston to Hollywood.

Of course, there was one time that pockets of non-Yankee fans were actually rooting for New York to succeed. In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks of 2001, plenty of folks felt that it wouldn't be such a big ask if the Yanks got one more title that year; after all, we'd dealt with it before, we could deal with it again if it helped heal a nation.

18 years ago Friday, Derek Jeter played an awfully big part in nearly making such an outcome a reality.

Of course, this helped kickstart a miraculous three days in New York, during which this same sequence basically happened again to a t, propelling the Yanks back to Arizona with a 3-2 series lead...

...at which point Arizona kicked the hell out of them in Game 6, then walked off Mariano Rivera in Game 7. The Diamondbacks had a little something to say about this "anniversary". Roll that beautiful bean footage!

Yeah, sorry, New York. People don't forget.