In response to the petty pregame attack on Boston and Red Sox

The New York Post is selling ‘Boston Sucks’ shirts ahead of Red Sox-Yankees Wild Card Game

Ahead of the Red Sox and Yankees‘ first-ever Wild Card game, tensions are already running high.

It would appear that the Rivalry isn’t as dead as we think.

On Tuesday morning, the New York Post revealed their cover of the day, a blonde woman wearing a t-shirt with “BOSTON SUCKS” in the Post’s black-and-white font. They also decided to list all of the reasons Boston Sucks, in an article apparently written “By All New Yorkers.”

Since the list is either a lame attempt at satire or even lamer “journalism,” (likely a combination of the two) I’ll counter with facts. In the last two decades, the Red Sox and Yankees have met in the postseason three times, and the Red Sox are 10-8 in those games, and have won four championships in fifteen years, the most by any franchise in this millennium.

In the first matchup, Aaron Boone hit a walk-off home run in the ALCS, but the Yankees lost the World Series to the Florida Marlins. 14 years later, the Yankees rewarded him by making him their manager, despite his complete lack of coaching or managerial experience.

The next year, the Yankees put up a 3-0 game lead in the ALCS, and then they watched as the Red Sox made a historic comeback to win the series 4-3 and go on to sweep the Cardinals in the World Series. No team had come back from a 3-0 game deficit in the postseason, and it’s never been replicated since. Congrats to the Yankees on being part of that!

In the 2018 Wild Card game, Yankees fans chanted “We want Boston!” and they got Boston, three games to one in the ALDS. Like a modern-day John Cusack, Aaron Judge blasted “New York, New York” on a boombox at Fenway after his team’s sole victory, and then his team lost both their home games while the Red Sox partied on their field once again. The Yankees also became the first and only team to allow an opposing batter to hit for the cycle in a postseason game during that series. Happy Brocktober to all who celebrate.

Oh, and without the Sox selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees, they’d still be perennial losers. In a way, they owe us their legacy. I found the spin zone on that awful trade!

Speaking of the past, 18 of the Yankees’ 27 championships were pre-expansion in 1961, and 10 of them came before Jackie Robinson broke MLB’s color barrier. Since the modern 30-team era that began with the 1998 additions of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks, the Yankees have four championships, same as the Red Sox. Could they win 27 championships in the current format? Hopefully, we never find out.

Finally, since the New York Post clearly spent hours and hours researching all the reasons Boston apparently sucks, here are some reasons New York sucks, just off the top of my head:

• The New York Yankees
• Rats everywhere
• Outrageously expensive
• Cuomo
• You put tomatoes in clam chowdah
• ARod
• Aroldis Chapman
• Grooming policy
• Our ballpark is better
• You’re not Boston

Go Sox.

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