| Well being from Cleveland where our big free agent signings were the washed up Aaron Boone and Juan Gonzalez I can say I despise both the Yanks and Sox equally for completely changing what it takes to be competitive team in Major League baseball. In my opinion Boston and New York fans look at their teams a whole lot differently than fans of the small market teams. Frankly, there is no excuse for New York to not win the World Series every year and if for some reason they don't than Boston should. Each team has an overwhelming advantage economically and the whole lack of a salary cap or effective revenue sharing has really turned me off baseball the last couple of years. Even when the Indians had a series of great teams from 1995-1998 pretty much every Clevelander knew that someday soon the bottom would drop out because their once great young players Albert Belle, Carlos Baerga, Kenny Lofton, Manny Ramirez, Jim Thome, Omar Vizquel, Sandy and Robby Alomar, would eventually either get old or price themselves out of Cleveland's price range. Despite selling out the most games in Baseball history at Jacobs field 435 I believe was the number, the Indians were not able to support a bloated parole in the same vein of the Red Sox or Yankees and this subsequently led to the deconstruction of the team and the trading away or loss through free agency of all the teams home grown talent.
It is for this reason that I will always root against Boston and New York, nothing personal against your guys' teams and I know that if I was in your shoes I'd be rooting for the home town team too, but I have nothing but hate for the "big two" in baseball. |