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...Yankees score. No one chants, "Yankees Suck!" and, in my estimation, this is a good thing. (I was different when younger, and not a daddy.) The Spinners mount a comeback in the second, and Caroline and I high-five each other and cheer on the home team. I glance out beyond the centerfield fence and see the old Aiken Street Bridge, painted a rust-colored orange and standing out amidst the leafy trees. It looks even more evocative of this mechanics' town than the painting of it on the cover of my dog-eared copy of Kerouac...
...Let’s start at the beginning: the Yankees. Now, I am a lifelong New Jerseyan and Mets fan, and I dislike the Yankees as much as any healthy American should. But there is simply no need for thousands of people to start chanting “Yankees suck!” when the Red Sox are losing 10-3 in the top of the sixth inning to the Oakland Athletics. Poor A’s—they fly across the entire freaking country to play in legendary Fenway Park, and the Boston fans don?...
...pricey hot dogs—and as I headed for the exit, do you know what the aging hippies were chanting? Not “Duane lives!” or “Bring back Dickey!” No, the crowd was yelling “Yankees suck!” Apparently New York had picked up a game in the standings that night...
...have to come back to buy another one.) As I am spending this summer in Cambridge, I plan to come back to Fenway for at least one more game, and maybe—just maybe—I will join in a couple of “Yankees suck!” choruses. Just don't ask me to explain them...
...David C. Newman ’03, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator in Quincy House. The Mets really suck this year...