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...baseball, and just about everything else, things rarely go according to plan. After losing the first three games of the American League Championship Series to the Yankees, the Red Sox were supposed to crumble entirely. After beating the Yankees in seven games, some figured the Sox would falter to the St. Louis Cardinals as they did in 1967 and 1946. If the script had played out true to Greek Tragedy, the Cardinals would have come back from a three game deficit to win Game 7 in Fenway Park, doing unto Boston what Boston had done unto New York...
...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?...
With a World Series win, Red Sox fans won’t be as desperate to beat the Yankees. Boston will have lost their jealousy of New York and will no longer be praying for that championship. Meanwhile, Yankee fans will have lost what drives them, the enjoyment they get from watching Boston screw up one more time. Sure they still have their swagger, but chanting “You’ve only won one World Series in the last 86 years!” just isn’t as satisfying as the simple...
What’s more, all the casual fans that rooted against the “Evil Empire” and for the underdog Sox won’t be interested anymore. They’ll cheer on those lovable losers, the Cubs, or lose interest in baseball altogether. It’ll be the death of Red Sox nation, and an event that energized the entire student population in a way second to only Harvard-Yale will be lost...
...this World Series I’m pulling hard for the Cardinals, and things look good. The Red Sox have already won the first two games, paving the way for another Red Sox collapse. And if we are so fortunate as to have the Red Sox lose—and if at all possible, lose in a way more crushing than the ball going through Buckner’s legs in 1986—then we can all look forward to next year. Boston fans will be screaming, “Yankees suck!” with even more passion...