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Friday, April 16, 2010

A NYY Fan In Red Sox Land

Since December I have been on the I-95 NJ to MA shuffle. I still am on this project, and now it is baseball season. Its one thing to be in Boston for a NYY-Soxs game; there are dozens, hundreds of other Yankee fans. However its another to be there during baseball season when the Yanks are not in town:

Some notations about living, albeit temporarily in Red Sox Nation:

  1. There are plenty of stores selling Red Sox stuff, the closest location to find anything NYY is the rest stop on the Mass Pike. There you can find a NYY decal for your car, enabling the National to find you easier and harass you more frequently. Even teh local CVS and Staples is pandering to the Red Sox fan.
  2. The Subways sell large plastic drink cups emblezzaned with the Red Sox logo, forcing me to negotiate for 2 regular size paper cups so I don't have to drink out of Red Sox cup. The Dunkin Donuts sells Red Soxs travel mugs.
  3. The News did show the highlights of opening day at Yankee Stadium, not to humor NYY fans, but because it was Opening Day for the World Series Champs.
  4. Anything Yankee on you draws the attentionof others, as if you were walking down the street naked.
  5. Yankee baseball, if they are not playing the Soxs is limited to MLB TV on your PC.

I am hoping this project is over soon, so I can get back to my NYY life.

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