Why is there such a big rivalry against the SOX and the Yankees?
2007-05-31 13:43:40 · 15 answers · asked by GOW! 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Th e whole Babe Ruth thing decades of history 20 plus championships for the yankees vs 1 for the red sox since babe, your not gonna be buddies with your best competition.
2007-05-31 14:28:34 · answer #1 · answered by fred l 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It goes back to the New York Highlanders and the Boston Pilgrims. After that it goes onto Frazee selling all the top players to the Yankees. And it IS as much a rivalry to the Yankees as it is the Sox. I'm a Sox fan and I've been to Yankee stadium for a Sox game. I saw more Yankee fans with tears in their eyes cause they were losing. Most Yankee fans try to push the rivalry out of their heads because of the 04 meltdown against the Sox. Plus they like to think that the Yankees don't have all this money invested in the team and everyone accuses them of trying to buy the World Series. Also if you knotice every fight between the two teams, the Sox always kick the crap out of the Yankees. Varitek and A-Rod, Ortiz throwing Tanyon Sturtze 10 feet. Pedro throwing Zimmer face first in the ground. Also if it wasn't a rivalry, then why did A-Rod throw an elbow into Pedroia, or slap the glove off of Arroyo's hand? He did it not only because he is a cheap player and will cheat to win, but because he wants to show NY that he can beat the Sox.
2007-06-04 10:51:46 · answer #2 · answered by devil6string 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a look at where the two cities are located, they aren't that far apart from one another. So I imagine in parts of Conneticut, and NY State fans of both teams mesh together in school, at work, out in the bars, etc.
Most importantly, it's hard to ignore that Babe Ruth for cash deal that the Sox gave to the Yankees. After the Red Sox world championship in 1918, they wouldn't win another one until 2004, meanwhile the Yankees won 26 world championships. Then of course these two clubs have been playing eachother for about a century.
2007-05-31 19:17:59 · answer #3 · answered by Baltimore Birds Fan 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because of the 1918 World Series. The Red Sox won that series in that year with Babe Ruth. After that, Babe Ruth was sent to the Yankes and then the Yankees started winning WS championships, thus putting the Red Sox in a "curse." In 2004, the Red Sox "broke" the curse and won their first WS in over 80 years.
You can Google the Bambino curse and it will tell you more (better yet, look it up on wikipedia).
2007-05-31 14:21:21 · answer #4 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ruth. It always goes back to Ruth.
The greatest player in history was sold -- not traded, no talent in return, simply sold -- to the Yankees. And the Sox stopped winning championships, and the Yankees went on a 45-year tear that is, with little dispute, the most amazing dynasty in professional North American sports history.
Feh. Let the worm turn.
2007-05-31 15:27:08 · answer #5 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because the Red Sox like to pretend that there as good a team through there history as we are.
2007-05-31 14:55:03 · answer #6 · answered by frankcujo89 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the yankees and red sox have gone back since the 1920's
then with the whole babe ruth thing that made it intese. they also are in the same division. i guess everything just added up
2007-05-31 14:07:44 · answer #7 · answered by Sportscrazy101 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's more of them. They think they're better than the Yankees, but they know we own them. We could put a price tag on them we own them so much.
2007-05-31 14:56:07 · answer #8 · answered by yankeejet1410 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they are in the same division and they are both great teams (well, the Yankees this year aren't)
2007-05-31 13:56:29 · answer #9 · answered by Joe 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because the redsox knows that the yankees are a better team
2007-05-31 17:12:53 · answer #10 · answered by abarnwe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋