Originally posted on 5/19
I don’t know how it is that people used to claim that the Yankees and Red Sox had the best rivalry in all of sports when the Yankees kicked the Red Sox butt for 83 years. It was like deer hunting. The problem with that is that it's not a sport unless you give the deer a gun too. For 83 years the Red Sox butt’s were as RED as their SOX! But this; this is a rivalry.
Memo to all you crazed Yankee fans out there. It is not your right to win. You have to actually play better than the other team on the field. You guys had become so used to winning that you forgot what it was like to have to compete. And because you won about ¼ of the world championships in your sport during a 100 year period, doesn’t mean that you automatically get to have that happen again.
Memo to everyone in Red Sox Nation. You are not going to out-do the “Curse of the Bambino”. They got you on that one, and they got 83 years of fun at your expense. That said, your attempts to get revenge since 2004 have been spectacular. And they can’t laugh it off as if you are not in their head now either. First, you shocked them in 2004 with the best post season comeback / worst post season defeat in MLB history. Since then, you’ve trounced them on the field each and every year. You rattled them again in April of 2008 having them scurry to dig up the Ortiz jersey in the locker-room floor of the new stadium. And now you have them crying foul because you have defaced their logo.
It’s going to take a lot of resolve and a lot more ingenuity to keep this going for another 78 years. You are going probably have to rely on two or three more generations of Red Sox Nation fanatics to figure out how to stay in their heads. In the mean time, you have bought yourself some time because you’ve got one of the best teams in baseball with a constant parade of young talent marching almost daily from the stadium in Pawtucket to Fenway Park. So huddle up, hunker down and come up with something good, because you know they aren’t going to take this lying down. – Josh Bolan
Josh Bolan is a retired AP baseball reporter and now works as a freelance writer in Fresno California. Josh has been contributing to baseball publications as a writer since 1996.
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