How can it still be considered a rivalry when the Red Sox have finished second to they Yankees for eight years

Answer 1

I swear to everything holy, if I have to read yankee_fan call the Red Sox the "RED SUX!!!" as though it was so clever one more time, I'm going to punch her in the ovaries.

The Sox/Yanks "rivalry" has to do with the history between the two clubs and the fact that they're so close and play each other so often. It's the story of the bigger, badder team (the Yankees) with the huge payroll, the team who wins everything every time, and the story of the underdog (the Red Sox) who always seems to blow it. It's Bucky Bleeping Dent in 1978 after the Boston Massacre and the Sox rallying to force a deciding game, it's Aaron Boone in 2003 after the Sox had the game wrapped up, and it's Ortiz and Schilling's bloody sock in 2004 and the Greatest Comeback in the History of Organized Sports. It's battling every year for 19 games, 25 if they meet in the playoffs. It's the battle of the teams with the top two payrolls (even though one out-spends the other by nearly 100 million). It's battles like Pedro vs. Zimmer, A-Rod vs. Varitek, Nixon and Kapler vs. Sturtze, the grandstand fans vs. the Yankee bullpen, that stupid fan near the Pesky Pole vs. Balco's favorite son, Gary Sheffield. It's a rivalry because no matter how many games the Yankees win, they never feel a lead is safe when the Sox have an at-bat left. It's a rivalry because the only man on the planet who completely and totally owns Mariano Rivera (the greatest closer in the history of the game) is David Ortiz. It's "Yankees Suck" chants vs. "Who's Your Daddy?" chants. It's either team's fans hating the other team's fans. It's the ownership hating the other ownership (a la the "Evil Empire"). It's the books, the movies, the newspaper headlines, the national network opening montage, the Curse of the Bambino, the greatest clutch hitter in the history of the game.

Go ahead. Argue that it's not a rivalry.

Answer 2

The question is a typical Yankee question. In 1999, 2003 and 2004 the Red Sox and Yankees met in the playoffs. Since the Subway Series with that other New York team, the Yankees have not won a world series and the Red Sox have. It will be a rivalry unless one of the teams falls out of contention early in the season, as long as they are the team to beat for each other, there is a rivalry.

Answer 3

The Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 and the Yankees haven't recently.

Answer 4

the answers to these types of questions are exactly why it is the best rivalry in baseball as well as all of sports... read the answers and look at the hatred of the other club... rivalries are not always by the players... but the fans too. standings dont matter... its the intensity of the game that makes it exciting...the sox could be in 4th place in the division and the yanks could be 12 games up but the sox/yanks games would still be on primetime television

Answer 5

I don't believe a rivalry depends on who finishes where....I think a rivalry is set apart from standings. A rivalry is created by the fans and teams, it's the intense competition when certain teams play each other, regardless of where each stands in their division. Ya know - like rivalry Saturday in college football...look at some of those long standing rivalries and how intense the fans and teams are.

Answer 6

Haha i would love to know the same thing. i would have to say overall yankees rule and i think they are only a rivalry because the red sox fans are rude and obnoxious and cant take losing to the yankees=]

Answer 7

umm fyi the red sox were world champs in '04 so thats a lie in yo' question and rivalries arent from standings i mean the fans the staff the players are what make a rivalrie a rivalrie!
ps. i like both teams sox and yanks and i would like 2 congradualate the yanks on the start of their new stadium

Answer 8

i ask that all the time the yankees dominate the sox over and over(yes im a yankees fan) but honestly when you are the winningest team in the history of sports (26 world titles) not many other teams can be considered a rivalry,they are all trying to beat the greatest ever,
ps we love you steinbrenner,thanks for spending all that money on faithfull fans happiness

Answer 9

Simple. The fans absolutely HATE each other, and I am not kidding. I revel in any Red Sox fans pain.

Answer 10

Simple, the teams have played 2 seven game ALCS back to back seasons, and in the last few season the total win - loss difference is less than five, that is regular season and postseason, and I'm talking over 70 games played.