QUOTE: As a Yankees fan, I sympathise with this, from ESPN.com:
"Something occurred to me while visiting Fenway Park recently. After one of their three losses to the Braves a few weeks back, the inevitable cadre of dealers were outside the stadium selling "Yankees Suck" T-shirts of every possible permutation. The Yankees have become the scapegoats for everything bad that has ever happened to the Red Sox and their fans and it is beginning to border on obsession.
Is there anything to that? How much of the misery of Red Sox Nation can be traced to the New York baseball team? Can we assign a percentage to it?
What percentage of the Boston fan's misery can we assign to the existence of the Yankees? 10 percent? 25? 50? 90?
If it's anything over 50, then, frankly, those bootleg T-shirts shouldn't read "Yankees Suck." They should read:
MY LIFE SUCKS BECAUSE THE YANKEES ARE GREAT"
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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