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...truth is that during Red Sox season, all local stories not concerning our national pastime are considered trivial to the consummate New Englander. While the arrest of dirty cop Jose Ortiz is of direct interest to a handful of local drug dealers, the fate of the hometown team each night is obsessed over by the millions that comprise Red Sox nation...
...Sox faithful are no ordinary sports fans. Passion for the team is more than just a hobby; it is an invisible brand that instills a collective social identity into denizens of the Northeast. At first blush, Northampton hipsters share little in common with Nantucket preps, but they both kneel at the alter of Big Papi...
...roots of the native New Englander’s inexhaustible ardor for all things Red Sox lie in Boston’s lack of celebrity culture and its patriotic heritage. Money and power are less revered in Boston than in other cities. Perhaps this is because there is no Hollywood or Wall Street in our backyard, or maybe it stems from the working class, Irish and Italian immigrant roots of so many locals. Whatever the reason, it means that the New Englander craves heroes distinct from the highfalutin socialites and power-mongering business elites assayed endlessly in other cities?...
...nothing unites Sox fans more than our hatred of the New York Yankees. We view Red Sox-Yankees matchups as battles between Boston’s working class, egalitarian values and New York’s brash, money- and power-crazed culture. We loathe Yankees owner George Steinbrenner’s endless spending to concoct an army of clean-cut automatons. We are also disturbed by his dictatorial management style and megalomaniacal personality. In fits of rage, Steinbrenner will publicly denounce underperforming players and regularly purges his team of these traitors...
Every game against the Yankees becomes a battle for cultural supremacy reminiscent of Cold War athletic contests against the Soviet Union. Drawing on Ronald Reagan’s anti-Soviet propaganda, Red Sox President Larry Lucchino has even labeled the Yankees an “Evil Empire...