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"Hey, so I heard your dad was a big Red Sox fan, and you were too, until you were about 8 years old. What happened?"

That was the query Jim King put to his son, Yankees reliever Michael King, in a shock Father's Day phase from the ESPN broadcast sales space throughout Sunday night time's Red Sox-Yankees sequence finale at Fenway Park.

He can giggle about it now, however are you able to think about what it was like for Jim to seek out out his younger son had switched allegiances from his personal beloved Red Sox to the Yankees 20 years in the past?

It all began with Game 5 of the 2003 American League Championship Series between the archrivals at Fenway Park. Originally scheduled for a Monday night time, it was pushed again because of a rainout earlier within the sequence, and in consequence, Jim could not take Michael as a result of the sport conflicted together with his work schedule.

"And [my dad's] like, 'No, it's once in a lifetime, Red Sox-Yankees -- Michelle [my mom], you've gotta take him,'" Michael remembered. "So we end up going to the game. My mom's a massive Yankees fan and her favorite Yankee ever is Mariano Rivera. And ... we watched the Yankees win and Mariano closed it out, and I'm a little 8-year-old kid sitting in the stands."

You can infer from that what occurred subsequent. Michael had $20 his dad had given him to purchase a memento, and when Jim noticed his son afterward, the boy was sporting a Yankees cap.

Little did they know that twenty years later, they'd be laughing about that second as Michael wore one other Yankees cap -- this one a bit of greater and with a contact of blue in celebration of Father's Day -- in the exact same park through which he fell in love with the Yanks.

This time, although, Michael wasn't sitting within the stands. He was within the Yankees' bullpen, a vantage level from which he might see his dad, beaming with delight, within the broadcast sales space.

"Mikey, you know how proud I am of you," Jim stated. "It's more than just baseball, my friend."

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