For many years, I thought the idea that Red Sox fans were just as concerned with the Yankees suffering as they were with the Red Sox succeeding was a ridiculous canard put forth by egotistical Yankees fans to tweak Bostonians. Then I moved to Boston, and have witnessed first hand that the phenomenon is in fact real. This city is obsessed with the Yankees, and winning two world championships has not had a tangible effect in altering those emotions.
This point came into focus for me this morning, as I listened to Curt Schilling being interviewed on WEEI. Schilling was on the air for about half an hour, and spent the first 5 minutes discussing himself and his prospects for the future, and the last 5 minutes talking about Manny Ramirez. He spent the middle 20 minutes talking about the Yankees, most notably about Alex Rodriguez’s injury and Joe Torre’s book. That means that 2/3 of a conversation with a Red Sox icon on a Boston radio station was spent talking about the enemy. This is not an anomaly, as anyone who listens to WEEI can tell you that 20 minutes of baseball talk does not pass without a mention of the Yankees, something you could not say about WFAN and the Red Sox. The obsession is real, and it is never going to go away.
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As a Yankee fan living in Boston I can attest to that comment-they always talk about the Yankees age-here is what I respond with Posada Varitek-37-37-y/o Tex-Youkilis 28/29 y/o Cano-Pedroia-26/25-Lugo-Jeter32-34-AROD-Lowell 33-35-Nady-Bay-29-28-Gardner-Ellsbury 24-25 Swisher-Drew 27-30- Pitchers-CC-Lester 28-26-AJ-Beckett-32-27-Joba-Daisuke 23-26-Pettite Wakefield 40-41-Wang-Bucholz 28/25-I am not sure what they are talking about and the only place I see them as clearly younger is closer-and I hope Melancon can be wha Papelbon is
Honestly, I find that many Mets fans are the same way.
Agreed, but less so. I’m used to both, and it is a lot more bitter in Boston.
True story-When Boston won the WS for the first time in 86 years, during the greatest moment of any Sox fan’s lifetime, something that many of their parents and grandparents never lived to see, at the height of the moment of celebration . . . .
. . . . it took less than 5 minutes for the chant “Yankees Suck” to get going around Fenway.
How about when I went to see Pearl Jam play in Boston there were multiple Yankees suck chants going on. At a concert and it wasn’t even in Fenway or anything. Annoying people.