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Every team has its creation myth: the Cubs teach the value of loyalty through suffering; the Red Sox, that every day is a new opportunity; the Expos, that for Canada, World's Fairs are exciting as it gets. The Yankees are the only team that teaches the true story of our country--that might mixed with class, talent and hard work often breeds success. Also, that pinstripes have a slimming effect. Except on David Wells...
...after a century of watching the Yankees club America's small-market teams like baby seals and tigers and red sox, you have to suffer during the off-season too. In the biggest moral affront yet to your sense of fairness, last week the Yankees--already the richest, best team in baseball--traded for Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod)--the richest, best player in baseball. The Yankees now have a slightly better lineup than the National League All-Star team, one of whose members will undoubtedly be the Yankees' second baseman by the play-offs...
Docking junior faculty who focus on case studies, he says, “would be like the Red Sox penalizing people for getting hits...
...under all that pressure, the Sox continue to collapse. They don’t make the playoffs when they have talent up the wah-zoo. When they do, they come up with different ways of losing every year...
...will just talk about how every year, the need to win becomes more and more intense. Boston fans are the best in the world. They care more about the Red Sox than any fans care about any other sports team...