Colin Barnicle, the self-proclaimed "worst intern in the history of the Boston Red Sox," tells GQ all about his experience working for the Sox, learning to forgive Grady Little, and his new Netflix documentary.

Every baseball fan of sufficient age remembers where they were when the Red Sox improbably toppled the Yankees in 2004 -- ending New York's run atop the American League, making that Boston team the first ever to come back from a 3-0 series deficit, and delivering the Sox their first title since 1918. As your social media feeds are flooded with 20th anniversary clips, Netflix is releasing a documentary on that storybook squad: The Comeback, from director (and former Red Sox employee) Colin Barnicle.

A diehard Red Sox fan and son of Massachusetts, Barnacle combines the fandom of his youth, the knowledge he picked up at Fenway Park, and the filmmaking chops he's accrued over his career to tell a story that begins long before David Roberts stole second or Johnny Damon hit his Game 7 grand slam. Featuring interviews with Pedro Martínez, David Ortiz, Theo Epstein, and other mammoth figures in Boston baseball lore, The Comeback -- streaming on Wednesday -- is a rosy nostalgia bomb for New England (and a horror flick for anyone who backs the pinstripes).

Yeah, my dad says it all the time, and I lived it! Probably through 200, you were hoping to win, but you really thought you were going to lose.

Now we're almost exactly like Yankees fans: We expect to win. If we don't make the playoffs and if we don't go deep in the playoffs and win a World Series, the season is a complete failure. The organization is a victim of their own success in a way. They've turned everybody in New England -- being from there, I can say it -- from these bitter, fatalistic people ("the other shoe is going to drop") into, like, "Yeah, the other shoe's going to drop, but it's going to drop on the organization for not doing enough."

Probably until right before we started to do the project, I was like, "Yeah, the Yankees and Red Sox were always a rivalry." And then you're looking at it, you're like, "26 to nothing isn't exactly a rivalry." You know? It's like, 86 years of losing and New York winning...yeah, of course they don't consider us a rival! It's all one-sided.