# Yankees / Red Sox...Who cares about 1918! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 24, 2004, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-red-sox-who-cares-about-1918/246779 "2004-05-24T13:12:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-red-sox-who-cares-about-1918/246779/21 "2004-05-31T04:02:05Z")
Long time Red Sox fan. I was at the Bucky Frigging Dent game. My favorite World Series was the Yankees vs. the Mets, because \*New York \* had to lose. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-red-sox-who-cares-about-1918/246779/22 "2004-05-31T13:49:49Z")
> [@Skelji](#): > > It’s not so much the _team_ that I don’t like, but some of the fans. Yeah sure, there are some obnoxious Yankee fans, but it seems that it’s [ingrained into the psyche](http://boston.about.com/cs/sportsprof/a/Sox_Rivalry.htm) of so many Red Sox fans to not just despise the Yankees, but to be real assholes about it too. It’s almost like they thrive on that whole losing mentality, wallowing in self-pity and using some bullshit “[curse](http://www.bambinoscurse.com)” as a crutch. If the Red Sox ever won anything, they wouldn’t know what to do with themselves. See, here’s the thing. True Sox fans DON’T give a shit about 1918 or the friggin’ “curse” or any of that BS. That’s the Hollywood version concocted by a bunch of people who just don’t get it and can’t comprehend team loyalty. I don’t even think I can explain it. 1978 and 1986 and 2003 ended horribly, obviously, but that doesn’t take away from how great those seasons were. You are correct, though, that once the Sox win the World Series, we won’t know what to do with ourselves. One last thing, there are plenty of asshole fans on both sides of the fence–the Yankees hardly have the moral highground on that front. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-red-sox-who-cares-about-1918/246779/23 "2004-06-01T04:12:53Z")
Jeeziz…this is why I will never be a fan of any professional sports team, folks\*. Okay, suppose the fact that it’s just a game doesn’t concern you. And let’s say that you’re willing to completely overlook the fact that, oh, you’re not on the team, you had nothing to do with the team’s success, and _gloating_ over such accomplishments is just a bit silly. And that using baseball success as a counterpoint to another city’s football success is just plain dumb. None of this bothers you at all. Let’s not forget that baseball has NO ECONOMIC RESTRICTIONS WHATSOEVER, which means that the big-money teams can pretty much stockpile talent at will. The reason Wayne Huizenga was villified wasn’t because he “bought a championship”, it was because it was so easy. (And of course, thanks to no salary floor, he was free to utterly destroy the team immediately afterward.) And no one has more money than the Yanks. As Rick Reilly put it, if “Yankess win World Series” is a headline, than so is “bulldozer defeats tulip”. They win four World Series with a level playing field, I’ll be impressed. Until then…'kay, whatever. At this point, I would like to reiterate that I’m not a fan of any professional sports team. Please keep this in mind when formulating responses. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yankees-red-sox-who-cares-about-1918/246779.md?page=1)