Tony Mazz: We Should Root For The Yankees
Boston Globe scribe Tony Massarotti, undoubtedly trying to make the Guinness Book of World Records for most death threats on a sports blog post, has informed us Red Sox fans that we should be rooting for the Yankees in the World Series.
No thanks, Champ.
Normally, I enjoy Tony Mazz’s writings (and I especially enjoy hearing him on the new sports talk station here), but this can’t really be more than a desperate attention grab from a failing newspaper, right? His argument is that a New York victory would restore some of the passion and fire that we’ve lost in the past few years. What he calls passion and fire, I call misery and bitterness.
Words cannot describe the pain and torture that the Red Sox put me through in the years between 1986-2003. Any fan who claims to relish those days is either a) lying or b) a crazy goddamn masochist. If you need an inferiority complex to root for a baseball team, maybe sports fandom isn’t for you. Go join Opus Dei or lock yourself in an iron maiden. Either one would provide a similar experience to that of the “cursed” Red Sox fan.
The fact that he’s telling us to root against a former Red Sox pitcher who happens to be the greatest and most electrifying player we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes is simply incomprehensible to me.
Tony is an intelligent guy. I am 100% confident that he does not believe what he writes in this article.
Agreed. I’ve been a fan since ‘67. Something changed for me in 2004. Ever since then, I get more enjoyment from a yankee loss then a Sox win. Weird. Don’t get me wrong – 2007 was great. But for pure glee – the kind with giggling – nothing beats a yankee defeat.
While I’m glad that much of the obsession with the Yankees has deteriorated since the Sox have won 2 championships this decade…this guy is f-ing kidding, right??? RIGHT?
It’s just a giant “LOOK AT ME”. A good way to get clicks.