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...baseball, fans enjoying the game and cheering for their team. By comparison to the scene at Yankees Stadium when the archrivals played, this was more like a college reunion. Until, of course, the inevitable moment during the celebration when Boston fans cast aside their manners and started chanting ?Yankees Suck!? The Yanks may have been out of sight, but they weren?t out of mind. One sign read: ?Plane Ticket: $350, Game Ticket: $750, The Yankees Watching the Sox in the WS: PRICELESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweeping Beauty | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...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?...

Author: By Andrew B. English, | Title: Keep the Curse Alive! | 10/27/2004 | See Source »

...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. Yankees fans will scream back “1918!” And we’ll all again be absorbed in the best, most intense rivalry in sports...

Author: By Andrew B. English, | Title: Keep the Curse Alive! | 10/27/2004 | See Source »

...milling around. A guy ran through the yard yelling, “Let’s go break shit!” Nobody followed him. The shouting grew ragged. There was lots of fist-pumping and inarticulate yells, including abortive attempts at a chanted “Yankees suck.” One of my roommates said, “I feel like I should be singing the score of Les Misérables.” I said, “I want the revolution.” The mood was oddly nihilistic, although perhaps we were just projecting...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: The Rough Streets of Cambridge | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...additional accommodation to Washington was a bridge too far. In Parliament and in the newspapers, questions rained down: If the U.S. has 138,000 troops in Iraq, why does it need this small number of Brits, who already have their hands full around Basra? Were the Americans going to suck them into a heavy-handed assault on Fallujah, undermining the British army's reputation? The darkest suspicion was that Blair was trying to boost George W. Bush on the eve of the U.S. election - the actress and Labour M.P. Glenda Jackson said she feared British troops were being "reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwatch | 10/24/2004 | See Source »

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