Word: chanted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chant would come every time they played in New York City. "Nine-teen eight-teen." Win or lose against the Yankees, they would hear it rise from the bleachers and spread to the box seats. Those are far from the unkindest words that could be directed your way in the South Bronx, but to members of Red Sox Nation, as fans of Boston's baseball team are known, they burned with particular intensity, scarlet letters on their sporting souls, because the words reminded them that the Red Sox hadn't tasted a World Series championship since Babe Ruth...
Okay, so maybe I shouldn’t have joined the “Burn it dooooowwwn—clap, clap, clap-clap-clap” chant that raged inside our Green Line T car after World Series Game...
Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, a member of the Harvard Social Forum who is also a Crimson editor, rallied the audience with a chant of: “I say people you say power...
...we’ll never have games like these again if the Red Sox win the World Series. What made the battles between the Yankees and Red Sox special was the venom Sox fans had for the Yankees. Think about the Red Sox’s favorite chant, “Yankees suck!” It doesn’t mean the Yankees are terrible. Any team that wins more games than you, has won more World Series than you and has historically owned you in the postseason isn?...
Rather, the chant means, “We hate the Yankees because they’ve won 26 World Series, they spend millions more than any other team, and their fans gloat over the team’s success with such irritating glee...