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Overrated

by El Person on Jan 28, 2007 11:45 PM PST Comment 30 comments

Today, I got to thinking about how overrated the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is. I usually try not to do that, since it usually results in my getting extremely worked up over almost nothing. Today though, I decided to blow off the steam wth this poll.

Poll

How many of these rivalries do you think are overrated?

Cubs-White Sox

2 votes

Giants-A's

28 votes

Dodgers-Angels

18 votes

Yankees-Red Sox

14 votes

Giants-Dodgers

5 votes

Cubs-Cardinals

9 votes

Yankees-Mets

5 votes

81 votes | Poll has closed

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Re: Overrated

The Giants/A's rivalry is the most weak-ass, fan oriented, one way rivalry I've ever seen. Granted, I haven't been around very long, but you know.

Personally, I don't think the rivalry even exists. And if it does, only in the minds of socially twisted A's fans, and the few Giants fans that they come in frequent contact with.

Coming to you by proxy

by howtheyscored on Jan 28, 2007 11:51 PM PST reply actions

Re: Overrated

I'm confused. Are you trying to ask which is the most overrated?

by Snof on Jan 28, 2007 11:51 PM PST reply actions

Re: Overrated

The trick is not to read the poll question, and just go with your gut.

Coming to you by proxy

by howtheyscored on Jan 28, 2007 11:58 PM PST up reply actions

Re: Overrated

I guess writing poll questions that make sense is overrated.

by Snof on Jan 29, 2007 12:07 AM PST up reply actions

A rumble from Down Under

I'm going with Howie's gut, and not reading anything anymore.

by Moggeee on Jan 29, 2007 4:01 AM PST up reply actions

Re: A rumble from Down Under

Howie's gut is also overrated.

You're nobody 'til everybody in
this town thinks you're a bastard - Elvis Costello

by EliminateMe on Jan 29, 2007 9:59 AM PST up reply actions

Re: A rumble from Down Under

His cat, however, is a damn genius.

by Moggeee on Jan 29, 2007 10:08 AM PST up reply actions

Re: Overrated

Oops, I meant to enable multiple answers.

Remember 1962!

by El Person on Jan 29, 2007 12:07 AM PST up reply actions

Baby Don't Hurt Me

Yeah, sure.

Just like I meant to enable my drug-addled, browbeating girlfriend.

by Moggeee on Jan 29, 2007 10:15 AM PST up reply actions

Re: Overrated

Probably Yankees/Mets and Cubs/Sox. Different leagues = not a real rivalry.

I'd lump in Giants/A's, but I don't know of many people who take that "rivalry" seriously.

by Bhaakon on Jan 28, 2007 11:53 PM PST reply actions

Re: Overrated

I just threw in the last 2 for the heck of it.

Remember 1962!

by El Person on Jan 29, 2007 12:06 AM PST reply actions

Re: Overrated

Where is the answer for ALL?

Sun Devil Baseball

by rod beck on Jan 29, 2007 7:36 AM PST reply actions

Deep Question

The answer is engraved on tablets that Moses brought down from the mountain, my son...

by Moggeee on Jan 29, 2007 7:54 AM PST up reply actions

Re: Deep Question

"The Ten Commandos"

Save The Pitcher. Save The World

by E Ticket on Jan 29, 2007 8:33 AM PST up reply actions

Amen

Amended and made into an even better movie, as well as a religious experience for real men:

The Dirty Dozen.

by Moggeee on Jan 29, 2007 8:42 AM PST up reply actions

I have a moment of revelation

(With guys like Jim Brown and Lee Marvin up against him, no wonder Hitler jumped in a ditch and lit himself on fire.)

by Moggeee on Jan 29, 2007 8:44 AM PST up reply actions

Re: Overrated

I don't think the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry is overrated at all! My God!! Those two teams spend all sorts of crazy money and do all sorts of crazy things for no other reason than to gore the other team's ox.

The Giants/Dodgers ain't what it used to be in the 60's. Maybe it's warming up again, but to have a real heated rivalry, you need the two teams battling it out for the championship with no other contenders year after year.

by DrBGiantsfan on Jan 29, 2007 9:18 AM PST reply actions

Re: Overrated

Well, unfortunately, it'll never be quite the same with divisional play.

Remember 1962!

by El Person on Jan 29, 2007 9:37 AM PST up reply actions

Re: Overrated

I would say that, from a historical standpoint, the Giants/Dodgers rivalry would be "greater" than Yankees/Red Sox, if only because, until very recently, the Yankees always won. A great rivalry needs a lot of lead changes.

The wild card vastly diminished both, however.

by antinous on Jan 29, 2007 12:10 PM PST up reply actions

And, simultaneously...

The Vast Card diminished them wildly.

by Moggeee on Jan 29, 2007 4:54 PM PST up reply actions

Re: Overrated

I wouldn't mind the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry were it not force fed to us much in the manner that geese are fed to produce foie gras. I agree it's historically important. The division has come down to these two teams in recent years. Their battles have been around for years and years and years. Supporting both teams is impossible. It's like supporting the Israelis and the Palestinians. Wait...that sounds like...could it be? That other rivalry in the time zone that most of the media forgets? Oh, except that one survived a cross-country move and has been more relevant in not just history but baseball itself, and it's been around longer. But no, ESPN's hypermegacomplete24hour coverage tells good little baseball fans to OBEY and give a crap about teams that by and large I do not give a crap about.

Though frankly I'd prefer ESPN to stay away from our shitty little ballclub and let us wallow in misery in peace. We know. We get it. Now get Pedro Gomez the hell away from me before I sodomize him with his own press card.

"Strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they're fascist." Not fascist: SF Dugout

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jan 29, 2007 10:34 AM PST reply actions

Re: Overrated

It's ESPN that's overrated.

by zenbitz on Jan 29, 2007 10:59 AM PST up reply actions

Re: Overrated

Whaddya mean? Why just the other day on ESPNews I saw this fascinating interview with Kirk Hinrich...or was it Ted Washington?...anyway, he claimed that he loves to compete and that he loves the game and respects his teammates.

Two hands for beginners, and Jose Cruz Jr. in the playoffs

by VidaWantsYourCar on Jan 29, 2007 6:42 PM PST up reply actions

Absolutely right; Sox-Yanks is real

I agree with the Baron. I disagree with a part of the premise of this diary, that the Red Sox-versus-scumbags rivalry is overrated. It's real and it's vibrant. It has vitality for the fans of those two teams, and it has for generations, even during each teams' lean years. If you don't care about the AL East, then we're sort of non-combatants forced to observe, and it might feel overrated. But for fans of those teams, it's real.

Actually, it's always been an interesting philosophical parlor game: can something really be called a rivalry if only one side cares about it? By and large, dodgers fans don't care much one way or the other about what happens to the Giants. They really don't. I personally hate them with the passion of 400 white hot suns exploding, but all my LA friends (some of them lifer dodger fans, who saw Maury Wills in their utes) are either purely indifferent to the Giants or only vaguely interested in the Giants effect on their own team's chances.

Love Giants; get heart and mind fried by Giants; repeat.

by Mayor of 311 on Jan 29, 2007 8:42 PM PST up reply actions

Re: Absolutely right; Sox-Yanks is real

I live with a Dodger fan, and we have a very mutual arrangement that while both of us can complain openly about whatever is wrong with our teams, we MUST keep our mouths shut when all is going well simply for the sake of maintaining a livable level of civility.

I agree, the rivalry has by and large lost a lot of its passion, not the least of all because of competitive draught, but in some tiny two bedroom apartments in the city of Berkeley, CA, just this side of Telegraph Ave on Parker Street, it lives.

Coming to you by proxy

by howtheyscored on Jan 29, 2007 9:02 PM PST up reply actions

Re: Overrated

I'm overrated, especially in bed.

Biggest mankinder in the history of no brain.

by Goofus on Jan 29, 2007 12:04 PM PST reply actions

Re: Overrated

I'd have to agree.

by leewhee on Jan 29, 2007 3:02 PM PST up reply actions

EEEEEgggg

I hope he's a porn star, and you're the producer.

Otherwise, I don't want to know the details.

by Moggeee on Jan 29, 2007 4:58 PM PST up reply actions

Re: EEEEEgggg

This got me thinking. Being overrated in bed probably isn't such a bad thing. I'm really not opposed to people thinking I'm better in bed than I actually am.

Biggest mankinder in the history of no brain.

by Goofus on Jan 30, 2007 1:54 PM PST up reply actions

Re: EEEEEgggg

So it's a little like being overrated at work.

But something like the opposite of being overrated at beating disabled puppies.

I'm starting to get it now.

Coming to you by proxy

by howtheyscored on Jan 30, 2007 2:30 PM PST up reply actions

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