(From The Boston Globe -- By Kevin Cullen)
The Yankees are in town for a weekend series, and this would be a nice time to retire the stupidest chant in the world -- YANKEES SUCK.
Now, before you go all HANK STEINBRENNER on me, hear me out.
I don't like the Yankees.
I never did, though as a kid I liked the way BOBBY MURCER played the outfield, and for some odd reason I always wanted HORACE CLARKE to do well.
But I am a Red Sox fan, have been all my life, and so that means I don't like the Yankees.
My two sons don't like the Yankees either.
But here's the critical difference -- I respect the Yankees, and I've taught my sons to do so, too.
They are 14 and 11, love baseball, and know that DEREK JETER plays the game as well and as hard as anyone has.
If I were picking sides in the schoolyard, Jeter is the guy I'd pick first.
Enough Already (Boston)
[See Red Sox Nation...we CAN get along.]
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If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen!
"Yankees Suck" has a subversive message. It's the secret handshake of Red Sox nation, letting others know that you were a Sox fan from back in the days of Bob Stanley. With the post-'04 Sox poser proliferation, it's the best way we know to identify the real fans, the ones who will proudly, and under just about any circumstances, scream "Yankees Suck."
I'm all for it so long as we don't have to retire the Boston sucks chant.
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