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All those years after the Curse of the Bambino began, it was Bucky Bleeping Dent who left all of Boston cursing its hated rival with his home run off Mike Torrez one sudden-death playoff afternoon in 1978 at Fenway Park.

“It will always be a rivalry,” Dent told The Post over the phone before the Yankees and Red Sox met for the first time this season on Friday night at the Stadium. “It’s just a big thing … Boston, New York. Some people in their family are Red Sox, some are Yankees. It’s just that kind of rivalry. It will always be that way. I don’t know if it’s as intense like it was back while I was the

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