Do you think the sox and yankees rivalry is really that great? What is the best rivalry in sports?
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White Sox vs. Cubs. Because they only play each other a few times every year there is so much intensity. Sox fans and Cubs fans are always fighting each other over who is better. The greatest world series ever would be between the white sox and cubs.
1107533
it seems like the red sox and Yankees play like 50 games a year against each other.  it seems like every time i turn on espn, its red sox vs yankees?  anyone else feel that way?
678485
I can't believe the way people act towards the Yankees. Having been a Yankee fan for as long as I can remember (and I am 30+) I've have supported them thru winning and losing seasons. And I've endured much ridicule and many jeers for doing so. The biggest thing I hear is how Steinbreiner buys pennants. This is not true. All teams have the same option of turn profits back into the team. He's a great business man. And he pays dearly for it. All the teams benefit from his hefty payroll because he pays the highest luxury tax in the league. \nYankees fans are all over...not just in New York.
354923
The Yankees obviously have the best players, but if they are the best team still depends on if they can mesh.  I'd say them right now though, you can't go wrong saying so.
418546
Red sox all the way! you guys have so much money and take the fun out of the game look at the royals then look at the yankees you guys just buy a allstar line up and play not that we dont but you take it to a higher level. David ortiz and manny all the way!!!!!! o and to answer you queston we will WIN THE DIVISION and sweep the season series with the yankees.
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LET'S GO RED SOX!!!\n\nP.S. to the ignorant Yankee fans, I have a few points to settle.\n\n1) " Who's your papi? "  I believe that was fully answered in 2004.\n2)  The last time I checked, the Yuckees were 2.5 games out of 1st place behind... ah yes, THE RED SOX!
624335
red sox suck. cracker jacks.\n\ni hate them with a passion.\nbut not a yankee fan..
523962
detroit is my fave team.  even when they were crappy, i still stood by them.  i dislike the yankees becuz they always win.  it's high time detroit rises out of the fog they been in since the 1990s.
1114721
Yankees fans arent the rudest, they're the stupidest.\n\nRed Sox fans, well, no.  I went to a Red Sox/Angels game last year when I was in Boston, my friend and I went in our Tom Glavine and Carlos Beltran Mets jeresys and we got nothing but love from Red Sox fans.\n\nRudest fans are by far in Philadelphia.
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The NY Yankees, because they have the most World Series titles (26), and the most WS appearances (39). Overall, they are just a great baseball team! They have had some of the best players in all of baseball! Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle.....the list goes on! Also, because of the team they have NOW! Alex Rodoriguez (the AL MVP 2005!), Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Hideki Matsui, and Mariano Rivera! Also, because they are the most clean cut team! The Red Sox are too hairy, smelly, and shabby to be considered a good team! Maybe if they all got haircuts, and dropped a few pounds...Ya know? The Yankees are fit, and in shape. They are my favorite team, and they always will be!
993608
I like sox, but yanks are better
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The best fans are Red Sox Nation fans! We are found in ALL American cities! We waited out the curse, and now we still love our Sox!!\n\nCleveland fans are also always loyal to the Tribe, win or lose!\n\nDo not know about the worst.\n\nThis is actually a very difficult question for me, personally to answer! You see, I love four teams, in four different cities!\n\nI love the Boston Red Sox, because of all the "characters" on the team, though we have lost some good ones since last year :-(( Boston is a great baseball city. The Red Sox have sold out ALL of their home games for two years now, and all of them so far this year. Great fans supporting a great team!\n\nThe New York Yankees have a few of my favorite players, too.  Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield, and now! Coco Crisp (from Cleveland)! AND Johnny Damon (from Boston)! Yankees fans are very loyal, and very noisy in support of their team, year after year!\n\nThe Cleveland Indians are my hometown team, and I love them, too. Win or lose, we love our Indians!\n\nI also love the San Francisco Giants (who now have Omar Vizquel, from Cleveland!) but it is because of their announcers, Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper. These two have such a pleasant, fair, cheerful, laidback way of announcing Giants games, that I am now a fan, simply to hear them call the game!
372042
The Yankees!!  Unlike a lot of the band wagoners that have answered here, I like the Yankees because of their history, not only winning championships, but their history in the game.  Whenever you think baseball, you think of the Yankees, love them or hate them, they are on your mind.
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I think everyone except Yankee fans hate the Yankees, while other teams are just competition.  The Yankee's have managed (Steinbrenners fault) to do all they can to ruin the chances of any other team competing simply because they are in a high dollar market.  But as a Red Sox fan I don't particularly hate the people on the team anymore, they aren't the late '70's team that was a bunch of jerks, now they're high priced spoiled brats who cry when they lose.
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You asked. And I am going to answer.\n\nI hate the red sox as much as I hate the yankees.\n\nFor the simple reason that are cocky arrogant self centered egotistical hyprocites.\n\nThere, you have your correct answer.
991666
Being from Cleveland, I get to watch the sox play the tribe alot. Everyone in their order can hit. They also have a solid pitching staff. They have a great shot at winning it again. I picked them to win it all again at the beginning of the season (and I'm a huge Tribe fan!). They're good, really good. \n\nPS - Yankees suck. They have so many good players yet they can't seem to win a series...The sox are a much better team @ at a much lower payroll!!
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I think it can certainly be a good thing... fans located in areas with teams in both leagues get to see these teams play each other in meaningful games.\n\nGrowing up as a Met fan, every year they would play the Yankees in the "Mayors Trophy" game...just one game out of the season...but the regulars wouldn't play that much... We wanted to see Tom Seaver go out there and blow the Yankees away, but of course, the Mets weren't going to waste a pitching turn by Tom Seaver to win such a 'meaningless' game.\n\nAt first, I was against interleague play, but it didn't take long for me to change my mind...\n\nPlayers used to play for one team, or in one league, their whole career... or at least for many years at a time. Players because identified as an "American Leaguer" or a "National Leaguer". The only time they would ever meet (except the World Series) was in the All Star game... and at that time, there was a genuine rivalry between the NL and the AL.  Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Johnny Bench, Billy Williams, Ernie Banks, Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson, Fergie Jenkins, Ozzie Smith, Pete Rose... these guys were all "National Leaguers".\n\nBrooks Robinson, Carl Yastrzemski, Frank Howard, Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar, Vida Blue, Reggie Jackson...these guys were all "American Leaguers" (even though Frank Robinson came up with the Reds). \n\nIn NJ, where I grew up, we got to watch Met and Yankee games, so we got to see players from both leagues... there was also a Saturday afternoon "Game of the Week" on NBC, in addition to "Monday night baseball", also on NBC. (No cable at that time)\n\nWhen you're used to identifying players with a particular league, you don't like to see the leagues play each other, besides the W.Series and A.S. Game.\n\nBut today, the way players (even great ones) switch teams and leagues, it really doesn't matter...there's really no division of players the way there used to be... \n\nso yeah, I think Interleague play is good for baseball... \nin spite of the fact that the majority of 'inter league' matchups are pretty lame.\n\nthere aren't any such things as "National Leaguers" and "American Leaguers" any more... Randy Johnson has been a star for Seattle and Arizona... is he an A-Leaguer or a N-Leaguer? There are plenty of other examples of future Hall of Famers who split their careers between the two leagues.\n\nThe last real "American Leaguer" was Cal Ripken, Jr.\n\nAssuming he doesn't go to the A.L to DH (I doubt he will), Barry Bonds might be the last of the "National Leaguers".\n\nI'm not counting on Pujols to spend his whole career in St. Louis, as great as he is.