(I don't necessarily agree with the comments in this article!)
I'm neither a Yankee or Sox fan, but I respect both.
I'm still pining away for the return of my "Big Red Machine" of the 70s.
That said, any fan who is passionate about the game, and a loyal fan, has my respect.
By the way, I'm also a diehard Bengals fan. (insert joke here...LOL). And my Buckeyes are having a rough start this year.
Winning is great, but team loyality is better.
Well, I've probably had a little too much to, uh, "imbibe" after the Sox win (GO SOX!), but I think elitism of *any* fans is a given. They are promoting their team over another, sometimes in the absence of any objective fact whatsoever. But maybe it's just bad mojo from previous live threads here - I shudder at the thought of tying Kerry, the slimy cretin, to anyone's fans, be it Sox or Yankees. I think that's a generally underhanded trick.
The most rabid and unreasonable fan of whatever team is probably most like Kerry - completely ignorant of the facts, and willing to say whatever to make him (his team) look better. But that's not the majority of Yankees, Sox, Cardinals, or any realistic FReeper fan. Sports is never as important as is defeating someone as vile and dangerous as Kerry. On that, we can ALL agree.
I liked Bernadette's article and her feisty Irish attitude; I liked the idea she could walk the streets on the east coast stepping on the toes of Democrat dimwits. Head in the air and feet on the ground, she'll make her decision on election day and it will be the correct one.
George Steinbrenner of the Yankees has the largest sports market to serve and probably the toughest fans to satisfy. Yankee success thoughout the century is and has been driven by the market demand. Ol' George has to meet that demand, to extend the Yankee history and to do so pays the largest salaries in all MLB to get the best players and biggest box office draws. BTW, he also pays the enough to get haircuts and buy razors and demands that his players show up clean cut.
One way of looking at this is that the Yankees are comprised of the finest players from across the land and rather than being an elitist team, they are America's team.
I'm a Yankee fan but I look for upstart teams who can come in and upset the baseball kings; Remember, so does Steinbrenner.