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2006-06-20 06:24:11 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
BOSTON RED SOX v. the pansies in pinstripes!
GO RED SOX!
2006-06-24 04:25:09 · answer #1 · answered by redsoxfan11x 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would go with Yanks/Red Sox...
The Giants and Dodgers have a great historical rivalry, but it's been a long time since both teams were good (i.e. battling it out for anything other than bragging rights).
The last time both the Giants and Dodgers were good for any lenght of time was the '60s... and the Dodgers dominated the Giants in that decade, even thought the Giants had a better team on paper.
The Dodgers were a great team in the 70s, the Giants were not. The Dodgers were a good team throughout the 80s, the Giants won, what, two division titles, I believe (87 and 89?)
Neither team did much in the 90s, the Giants did get to a World Series in 2002.
The Yankees and Red Sox have been constantly battling for the AL East division title, and have met in a couple of memorable playoff series' in recent years, both going 7 games.
The Cubs and White Sox have never played for anything important other than bragging rights, except 100 years ago, the World Series of 1906 (won by the Sox)...
It's not too often that the Mets and Yanks have been good at the same time either... they met in one World Series, in 2000.
I think the post above mine pretty much has the top MLB rivalries ranked in order...good job!
2006-06-20 16:04:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I name the Giants against the Dodgers as this rivalry actually pre-dates the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. Each has varied in intensity over the years as the fortunes of the teams changed. For instance, the Yankees and Red Sox were bitter rivals in the Ted Williams era, but the rivalry wasn't much in the mid-to-late 1960s when the Yankees collapsed. Similarly, the Giants and Dodgers were a big thing before 1920, and again in the "Boys of Summer" era through the 1960s.
The "Curse of the Bambino" is pure myth, being the humorous invention of a Boston sportswriter. As Sports Illustrated correctly points out, nobody was talking curse in 1946, and certainly not in the miracle year of 1967; similarly in 1975 (the greatest World Series ever played, in my opinion) the Red Sox lost a hard and fair contest to the Reds, and Babe Ruth's name never came up. If anyone can lay claim to such a curse, it would have to be the Cubs, who were victimized by Ruth's pitching in 1918 and then suffered the "called-shot" home run (at Wrigley Field, no less!) in 1932.
Cubs-White Sox? No contest, except in the hearts of fans. This is equivalent to Mets-Yankees; although they play each other more now that there are interleague games, they just don't meet that often.
2006-06-20 11:02:57 · answer #3 · answered by BroadwayPhil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New York Tankees vs Boston Red Sox.
This rivalry started when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees for a Broadway Show. Then after, the Yankees were killing the Red Sox with Babe Ruth, which made the Red Sox mad. So, the Red Sox started trash talking the Yankees, which made them mad. So both teams were angry and wanted to beat the other to go to the World Series. Which we know the Yankees did many times, but not the Red Sox. That started the Curse of The Great Bambino, bambino as in Babe Ruth. Then in 2004 the Red Sox beat the Yankees and won World Series which even made this rivalry greater. This is why New York Yankees vs Boston Red Sox is the greatest rivalry in MLB history.
2006-06-20 06:50:39 · answer #4 · answered by soccerari6595 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yankees/Dodgers dating back to when they were in NY. If you were a Yankee fan in Brooklyn, or a Dodger fan in The Bronx, you were taking your life in your hands...for real. Red Sox/Yankees is fashionable as of the last 30 years, but in the 60s and prior, was there really a rivalry since the Sox were so poor? Since 75 when the Sox made the series, and obviously 77 with Bucky Dents HR, this has been the best. But all time I would still say Dodger/Yanks.
2006-06-20 08:14:51 · answer #5 · answered by michael s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yankees-Red Sox...no contest
I would say Dodgers-Giants, if that were as heated, close, or anywhere near the scale of the rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox. There is another problem with that rivalry. Neither of those teams are good.
Sox-Yanks by FAR!!!
2006-06-20 06:30:24 · answer #6 · answered by bay 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Giants-Dodgers. People who say yanks/sox don't understanding the meaning of rivalry. That was as a one-sided beat down until recently. The Giants have won the pennant 17 times and the World Series five times while the Dodgers have been to the World Series 18 times and won it six times.
I mean, a Giants fan got shot and killed in Dodger stadium a few years back. What more proof do you need than that?
2006-06-20 08:10:38 · answer #7 · answered by ninjavshippo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicago White Sox Vs Chicago Cubs
2006-06-20 06:33:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yankees/red sux. it is a rivalry steeped in mythology and bordered by history. it is older than all the others. before there was a vietnam or a watergate. before the deaths of president kennedy and dr king. before eisenhower spent his presidency playing golf and before the conflict in korea. before hitler and his insanity, the yankees have beaten the red sux.
it's possible that the stories of ruth being sold for a broadway show or it might not. it's possible that the rivalry has been weaker in some years than in others. but, long after we are gone and are children are gone, the rivalry will still exist.
we are yankee fans and we hate boston.
they are red sux fans and hate new york.
the only thing that comes even close to this in all of sports, is michigan-ohio state.
2006-06-20 08:27:27 · answer #9 · answered by lenny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox they're one of the hottest rivarlries in the MLB and in sports period.
2006-06-20 07:18:28 · answer #10 · answered by roburo2002 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yankees- Red Sox
2006-06-20 06:38:58 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋