[WaveThatFlag]

Author is delusional if he thinks that this year will be any different from the last 89, but he is right about one thing: Boston truely does suck.

Let's go Yankees.

[Huck]

AL East is a joke this year.

[Huck]

Hey....we're talking baseball!

[Sonny M]

1918.

[WaveThatFlag]

Eight years later, as a college student in Baltimore, I watched the sixth game of the World Series between the Sox and Cincinnati Reds at the school's bar. When Carlton Fisk won that game with a foul-pole homer, the Rathskellar fell sullenly silent, since so many of the students hailed from New York. I collected about $50 on bets and took a powder.

Yeah, nice homer. I forget, who ended up winning that Series again?

[eastsider]

When [Roger Clemens] beaned the Mets' Mike Piazza and didn't even apologize, I was disgusted.

[Media Insurgent]

When I moved to Massachusetts, it amazed me how many people I saw walking around wearing Yankees gear. I thought that was supposed to be illegal or something. There's even a station in Worcester that carries Yankee games. Just goes to show you that there are frontrunners everywhere.

[big'ol_freeper]

Go Sawks!!!

[RJCogburn]

he is right about one thing: Boston truely does suck.

I respect you as a FReeper, and I make it a point to not insult Freepers even when I disagree with them.

So, I'll address you as a baseball fan. You're a idiot!

[Billthedrill]

Ah, baseball season, and the trash-talking begins. My Boston colleague tells me they're selling seats at the TOP of the Green Monster this year, which might be pretty cool...gotta find an excuse to make a trip on the boss's dime...

Decorum does differ throughout the league - they won't even let me wear a "Yankees Suck" T-shirt into Safeco...but it is nice to see the occasional east-coast boor tossed for obscenities...

[Alberta's Child]

The most dramatic Yankees - Red Sox game from my childhood was not the 1978 playoff game in Boston.

It was a regular season game in August or September of 1977, in which Ed Figueroa of New York and Reggie Cleveland of Boston both pitched eight innings of shutout ball. Figueroa put the Sox down in the top of the ninth, and after Thurman Munson led off the ninth with a single, Reggie Jackson got a hold of a 3-2 pitch that was practically in the dirt, and hit a long home run into the right-centerfield bleachers.

Players who reminisce about that game years later all remember Reggie Cleveland standing on the mound staring out toward the bleachers long after all the other Boston players had left the field.

Reggie Jackson was not always one of the fan favorites in New York, but he always had a way of coming up big in those situations. Watching balls race into a cool autumn New York night off that black bat of his was one of those things that sent chills through a kid in the late 1970s.

[dead]

Hey Red Sox fans - Thanks for the Memories!

Let’s Go Mets!

[Jeremiah Jr]

The sequel, Curse II

Bring it if ya got it!

[babylucas]

I grew up in Connecticut and suffered for years as a Red Sox fan. Then I moved to Arizona in 1995. I attended games 1, 2 and 7 of the 2001 World Series. Oh, the rapturous joy!! Go Dbacks!

[majordivit]

What i remember most about the 1978 season was not Bucky Dent's three run homer in the playoff game; but an earlier Yankee four game demolition sweep of the Sox at Fenway which shrunk the Sox lead over the Yanks to almost nothing.

I thought the 1978 Red Sox team was about as good as it gets. The Sox built up a 14 game lead on the defending world champ Yankees in mid August. When the Yankees crushed the Sox in all four games, by overwhelming scores, I knew that there would be no stopping them. I bet most people do not remember that after the Yanks passed the Sox in September, the Sox came back and found a way to tie the Yanks on the last day of the season, forcing the one game playoff...

I was in attendance at Fenway Park in 1988 on a day when the Sox played a video history of the 1978 pennant race on Fenways big screen. The 1978 Yanks-Sox pennant race was certainly the greatest of the decade and possibly the greatest of all time.

[nutmeg]

PING from (divided) Red Sox/Yankees country!

[Stay the course]

I wonder what would happen if Boston and the Cubs both made it to the World Series. One of them would seemingly have to win, but that would violate a fundamental law of the universe. The earth would have to open up and swallow them or something.

[Charles Henrickson]

. . . attempts to gin up lesser pairings into an admirable viciousness -- St. Louis and Kansas City? the Cubs and White Sox? -- have always failed. There is obviously something different about Boston and New York. . . .

What is obviously different about the Boston-New York rivalry is that the writers who write about it all live in Boston or New York.

The Cardinals-Cubs rivalry is pretty darn good.

Furthermore, the Cubs and White Sox play in different leagues, so the rivalry can't be quite the same. But when I was growing up on the north side of the city of Chicago, the dividing lines were very clear: If you lived on the north side, you were a Cubs fan and hated the Sox; if you lived on the south side, you were a Sox fan and hated the Cubs. The hostility was real, and it was intense.

[Maven]

I bet $100 on the Sox every year. This year, I collect.

Got just two words for this:

GO ANGELS!!!

Maven

[Maven]

Let's go Yankees.

And to all you Yankee fans:

GO ANGELS!!!

Maven

[11th_VA]

I support the players, but not the Yankees. I HATE Steinbrenner ...