The southbound side of River Avenue and 161st Street had been blocked to trucks so there wouldn’t be as much traffic for the group of people to walk through. Japanese fans lined up in front of the McDonalds across the street from Yankee Stadium before making the trek to the house that Ruth built. Several fans wear “Boston Sucks” and “Cowboy Up” t-shirts, which is par for the course. On one of the television screens in the press box, the YES network begins the pre-game show with a black screen and these words in white “The Rivalry Continues…”
Has anyone told all parties involved that there is no longer a rivalry? At least not the one that we’ve all grown to know for most of our lives.
The rivalry ended on October 27, 2004 when Keith Foulke underhanded the ball to Doug Mientkiewicz at first base in Busch Stadium. Am I the only one who realizes this? Yankee fans now have shirts that compare the numbers of championships the two organizations have won. Did anyone not realize that the focal point of the rivalry centered on the Red Sox NOT winning? They’ve won. It’s over. No “curse.” Sorry.
Did we not witness the single biggest collapse in the history of baseball in the 2004 ALCS? Have we not forgotten that the Yankees, the mighty Yankees, played some of the worst postseason baseball during a four-game stretch? (crickets, crickets)
Yes the Yankees still win divisions. But that hasn’t mattered much since the institution of the Wild Card in 1995. Yankees fans and Sox fans are in denial that the rivalry is over. They believe that the competition is fiercer than ever now that the Sox broke the “curse.” It’s not. It’s just another divisional match up like any other divisional match up in baseball. It might have a little more history, but it’s just not the same.
The rivalry is over.
Has anyone told all parties involved that there is no longer a rivalry? At least not the one that we’ve all grown to know for most of our lives.
The rivalry ended on October 27, 2004 when Keith Foulke underhanded the ball to Doug Mientkiewicz at first base in Busch Stadium. Am I the only one who realizes this? Yankee fans now have shirts that compare the numbers of championships the two organizations have won. Did anyone not realize that the focal point of the rivalry centered on the Red Sox NOT winning? They’ve won. It’s over. No “curse.” Sorry.
Did we not witness the single biggest collapse in the history of baseball in the 2004 ALCS? Have we not forgotten that the Yankees, the mighty Yankees, played some of the worst postseason baseball during a four-game stretch? (crickets, crickets)
Yes the Yankees still win divisions. But that hasn’t mattered much since the institution of the Wild Card in 1995. Yankees fans and Sox fans are in denial that the rivalry is over. They believe that the competition is fiercer than ever now that the Sox broke the “curse.” It’s not. It’s just another divisional match up like any other divisional match up in baseball. It might have a little more history, but it’s just not the same.
The rivalry is over.
1 comments:
You have a point, but it's still a rivalry like Notre Dame to Michigan State, and so on. What I take great ease in is that now the Red Sox are steeped in mediocrity. They are no longer the lovable losers, but now that they have themselves a championship-they're at least like everyone else: Average. Just another team in the pile. Like most Yankee fans say, "Start talking to me when you're on World Series #26." Until then, they're just average. Which is alot worse than being the lovable losers.
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