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Apparently the Boston faithful had graduated from their “Yankees suck, Jeter swallows” routine and set their sights on New York catcher Jorge Posada. Though I was tucked away in a back-alley garden restaurant, Red Sox Nation had targeted me, too, as its inebriated agents would on several other occasions during my brief foray into the Great White North...
...sometimes sporting my dingy Yankees hat, sometimes not—during my two-day stay. Why the knowing glances in a bar’s inner bowels between complete strangers from Harvard and Northeastern, followed not long thereafter by an unprovoked chant of “Yankees suck!”? Why the need to inject themselves into conversations 30 feet away to curtly ask whether they could “wipe their ass with...
...intervening years, that hushed self-pity has metamorphosed into an aggressive self-loathing most frequently manifested in obnoxious ad hoc mob attacks on single unsuspecting Yankee fans. Red Sox fans don’t even need a reason to break out the “Yankees suck!” chant any more. A group of them recognize one another as Sox fans at a Dispatch concert? Yankees suck. The Celtics are blowing out the Cleveland Cavaliers at the FleetCenter? Yankees suck. The Patriots just won the Super Bowl and fans have started overturning cars and setting trash cans...
...most enlightened of these backers of perpetual losers, all supporters of New York’s American League squad are front runners who by definition must have supported the Mets a decade ago. And, no, they will not discuss any claims to the contrary. By the way, the Yankees suck...
...well. No need to worry about that. Eight games behind the Yankees and struggling just to make the playoffs, one thing is for sure: The Red Sox suck...