Saturday, October 13, 2007

Red Sox the new Yankess?

Approximately five years ago Red Sox's President Larry Lucchino labeled the Yankees, "The Evil Empire." He used the Empire's capacity for expensive folly to pin the sporting world against them. Fox Sports has followed the evolution of the Red Sox from then to present time, (http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7323070), and has made a connection between the Yankees then and the Red Sox now, THEY"RE THE SAME. Since that time the Red Sox have made their fair share of expensive folly, such as Matt Clement, J.D. Drew, Dice K, Julio Lugo, Edgar Renteria, etc). The Red Sox for so many years were deemed as the underdog or the anti-yankees team. They were the cure to the "Evil" Yankees, but over time this has changed. The Red Sox fans loathe the Yankees, well the Red Sox has become what they loathe. What was used as fuel for the fans of the Red Sox is becoming null and void. The people that rooted for the Red Sox because they weren't the Yankees now have to consider this shit. With this shift of "Evil Power" being noticed by the fans of baseball will the Red Sox start being hated by the fans of the other 29 teams? Should they be? Is it fair that the financial spending of the Yankees is enough to hate them when the Red Sox are in the same boat? I think there are two options, hate both teams or give both teams a clean slate. Either way I'm okay with it, since I'm a Cubs fan, but personally I think we should wipe the slate clean between these two teams. Let them start over. Don't label either them as "Evil" or "Wrong" for trying to get a ring using money. The fact is there is no salary cap in baseball and these two teams are free to use the financial ability to attract players to achieve their goal in obtaining a ring. So let them spend their money while low budget teams like the D-Backs and Marlins foil their quests year after year.

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