Why do red sox fans hate yankees

There are plenty of people who are too young to understand what it used to be like to root for the Sox. My godson is one. In his universe the tally is Sox over the Yankees in World Series titles, and he exists with the beautiful bliss of historical ignorance. But there are others. I hear from them a lot.

I talked to a few folks in my travels in this city, just to get a mood, and since I am a geezer of 51 I generally only talk to folks who resemble my demographic. And a funny thing has emerged.

Another friend put it this way last weekend, after he watched the Yankees pound the Sox in the first two games of the final series of the regular season that was meaningless in every way to everybody unless you wanted to go looking for bogey men. When Johnny Damon elected to sign with the Yankees for more money following the season, Sox fans were reeling.

With their deep pockets and reckless spending, the Yankees had screwed the Sox over just because they could. It happened again a couple years later, when the Sox were poised to land future franchise cornerstone Mark Teixeira.

The resentment over these free agency moves only continues to grow. Sox fans are sick of being outbid, and love a player that much more when he comes to Boston for less money.

They are loud, inappropriate, fickle even with their star players, entitled, irrational and have horrifically annoying accents. I would be remiss if I did not point out that one could just as easily apply the previous paragraph to Red Sox fans, who despite their many differences share a ton of characteristics in common with their New York counterparts.

And really, this is what sustains the vitriol between the two cities. They may just be rooting for clothes as Jerry Seinfeld once pointed out , but this loyalty to their teams will keep the rivalry going forever.

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