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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 there playing against ’em in the ’70s.”

It is virtually impossible for it to be as intense —Bill “Spaceman” Lee injuring his shoulder during a 1976 brawl, former Boston president Larry Luccino calling the Yankees the Evil Empire in 2002, Pedro Martinez hurling Don Zimmer to the ground in 2003, Aaron Boone’s walk-off home run off Tim Wakefield in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS, the Red Sox storming back from an 0-3 deficit to shock the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS on their way to beating the Cardinals and ending their 86-year-old World Series Curse.

But it will always be Boston versus New York.