Actually - I don't hate any of you %^$#(# (
) fans and I don't think anyone else here does or in Red Sox nation. And yes, the gloating has been far less from you guys that what would typically happen (I was the local Boston guy with all NY roomates - I KNOW).
It's just all this talk for the past week - not so much here - of the curse (which is a load of locally media manufactured cukka), the 26 wins you do have (kudos to you - though we do have 16 WC banners from the Celts), the 100 mil -v- 150 mil payroll, and the list goes on and on. This year and maybe next year could be our last best chances to unseat the Yankees. It sucks being forever the bridesmaid in the AL which is what has happened in our baseball "fandom". We arguably had a team that could beat you and go all the way.
Some people feel that Boston has an inferiority complex -v- NY. Might be true in some small respect but the bottom line is that one of New Englands two pride & joys, Sox & Pats, the Sox have not won the big one. 80 years of lousy management & ownership, at least from assembling a WS team, has struck a chord with Boston fans. Fortunately, that 80years is over. We have better management, We will comptete, which is doubly hard seeing that ole Georgie is already wondering who he can "BUY" for next year.
We'll find a way someday to both beat the Yanks AND win the World Series. To you Yanks fans (that often feel entitled to win every year) it will be just a missed chance, a bad team, an unlucky call, a speed bump on the road to baseball fandom imortallity. For us it will be Sports Nirvana.
Red Sox fans are always hasseled for "Wait til Next Year" but with this new management, that statement has more teeth.
We'll fix your wagon one of these days. But in the meantime we don't want a pity party, just leave us alone to go sulk around a little bit. Our Pats are still better than you GMen or Jets, Jets, Jets
, our Celts are better than the Nicks, B's -v- Rangers/Islanders is a draw these days, they all equally suck. And with the of Pats 2001 we've reached one watermark of New England Fan Nirvana, but when the Sox finally win it all, hopefully in the next decade, we will experience something that Yankees fans will never understand. That all GOOD things will come to those that wait. We will get one, sooner rather than later.
In the meantime I take great comfort in the fact that New England Striper Fishing, bell to bell, exceeds that of New York, and by far surpasses that of NJ
- No hard feelings guys...
Your die-hard Red Sox fans...