After 2004, I really don’t get as excited about the Sox-Yanks as I used to..I watch the Sox no matter what but it used to be ” oh I gotta watch the Sox-Yanks series!!!”- now I am like “meh”.

The Yankees dont $uck but they aren’t invincible either- in the past they always got the hit they needed or made they play they needed but once they collapsed in 2001 against Arizona it was like the floodgates are open… rebuilding I guess like everyone else…

Arod is contemplating highlighting his hair & a new lipgloss.

that JD’s been for the past few months because he’ll be pitched around more and given fewer pitches to hit and as much as I like Jacoby’s speed at the top of the order Youk has better contact skills though that might mess with the righty/lefty balance unless you slide JD into the twohole so to speak and there comes a time when you have to consider bringing up Dusty Brown and DFAing Cash even though Wake likes a caddy and Lowell is slumping a bit isn’t he wonder if this is the typical secondhalf swoon or just small sample size and…”

I still enjoy the rivalry. I will always enjoy beating the MFY, and would even if they were in last place. I hate everything about that team and their fans. For me, 2004 made the games less of a life and death struggle and, thus, somehow more enjoyable. The media coverage of the games annoys me, but the games don’t.

I wouldn’t be so quick to downplay Sox-MFY. I dislike the Rays (and also the Angels), but in a very different way. The chip Tampa has an its shoulder is annoying, as were the trolls that posted on this site. However, I have trouble taking them too seriously as there are probably only 100 or so confirmed Devil Rays fans. As for the Angels, I hate the Rally Monkey, the d-bags that post about east coast bias on HH, and the media love fest with Mike Scioscia’a managing. But nothing comes close to my hatred of everything about MFY and their fans.

Speaking of MFY fans, they may be a little less smug than they used to be. But I kind of like that. I work with a few of them. After the Sox won the WS last year a couple of them approached me and told me Boston was lucky we didn’t play the MFY on the playoffs last year. I laughed and told them we would have crushed them, winning the deciding game after Fat Roger Clemens left with his inevitable phantom post-season injury. They were indignant, informing me that the MFY won the season’s series from the Sox. So what, I informed them, the Sox won the season’s series in 1999 and lost in 5 games—and the MFY were undefeated in the regular season against Cleveland.

The rivalry with Tampa or any other team doesn’t come close.

..your opener - “So the Yankees come to Boston tonight. Color me nonplussed.” - has left me, uh, nonplussed. You see, nonplussed actually means perplexed or confused, not, as I believe you meant to say, unimpressed. Of course, I have been wrong before trying to piece together the King’s English from a member of RSN.

;)

Yankee Ombudsman

I realize you MFY fans have bad ethics (screaming at pregnant women is not debatable in terms of appropriateness, so don’t try), but talking about announcers like this is way out of line – unless their names are Joe “Migraine” Magrane and Dewayne “ManPerm” Staats. Then we are all free to bash them and hope they get fired for sexual abuse or something like that. They try to create a rivalry between the Sox and the Rays by pissing off any of the Nation located in the Bay Area. Just because we live their doesn’t mean we should have to like your team, people don’t always make the decision to move themselves.