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Im a Yankee fan in a family full of Red Sox fans... My dad was a Red Sox lover and never lived long enough to see them win a world championship. My Kids (3 out of 4 ) are Red Sox fans . Like Old dude, I grew up idolizing Mickey Mantle...but a little earlier than him...it was more of a 1950's period when he was at his prime. Most of my older grandkids are Red Sox fans like their parents, so I still remain a pariah in the family.
 
Love these memories. Thank you. The podcast examines both sides of the rivalry, although we are Sox fans. Let us know what you think. We’ve done 50 episodes, since my son was 7.
Mainly, MLB, UConn, & NBA themes.
 
ME Husky Fan said:
60 miles from Philly, 90 from NY so a fan of both until the 1964 collapse by the Phils, so all-in for the Yankees ever since. My Dad taught me that if my team didn’t win you root for the team in your division, so in ‘67, ‘75 and ‘86 I was rooting for the Sox. That stopped in 2004 when I got bombarded with hate from the Sox fans who worked for me at the time. I was always hoping for my true friends, who thought they’d go to their graves without a World Serise win, to experience what I had many times and for them in ‘04 I was happy. The rest, well we’ll leave that be.
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You mean the collapse against the Red Sox didn’t sway you again!!??
 
Red Sox. When you’re a central CT kid who didn’t care about baseball in the least and you go to UMass Amherst in 2000 and people are throwing flaming furniture out of 20+ floor dorm windows during the playoffs, you quickly choose the path of safety.

Also, Tim Wakefield was a pretty nice guy to root for.
 
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Here’s another Red Sox memory. Right after the John Henry group took over ownership the team was away on Father’s Day so they invited fans to come to the park in and play catch out on the field. My dad and I and my son went out and had a blast. Over the speakers they were playing the soundtracks from The Natural and Field of Dreams. It was a really nice moment.
 
Well, there are the Yankees. Then there is what is laughingly called 'Major League' baseball. Oh, and there is a Triple A team that plays in some bandbox called Fenway Park.
 
When younger used to be a die hard Yankee fan. Have to admit I'm now a fair weather fan and I'm following the Yanks more often this year as it appears they have a chance to make it to the World Series. Great Pitching and the Yankee hitters seem to be more patient at bat.
 
Sorry but I have one other memory. Going to Yankee stadium in the luxury box seats (company owned) and watching Don Mattingly hit a grand slam against the Sox. It always makes me sad he never won a Championship

I got to see a lot of games in that luxury box and it was awesome.
 
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Life long Red Sox fan. My parents took my younger brother and me to Fenway and walking up the ramp to the field was the most beautiful site I had ever seen. 2004 best memory for me. Said younger brother was in DC at the time and we “watched” the end of the series clincher over the phone together. It was a special moment for me for sure. My husband is a Yankees fan so I had to listen to him till 2004, but since then he hasn’t had much to say. He’s wrong about most things anyway!
 
Keep those game memories coming. Fun to read. This baseball rivalry pod has now broken our single day listens record. Could it surpass our Coach Calhoun pod??

 
GoUconn7961 said:
Sorry but I have one other memory. Going to Yankee stadium in the luxury box seats (company owned) and watching Don Mattingly hit a grand slam against the Sox. It always makes me sad he never won a Championship

I got to see a lot of games in that luxury box and it was awesome.
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While I was going to school my roommate and I decided to take in the Phillies game. We got there and saw a box was empty so we went down and sat in it. By random coincidence the name on the box was my roommate’s last name. He looked at me and laughed. Not long afterwards security wandered over to roust us out and my roommate taps the name on the box and holds up his Massachusetts drivers license. Amazingly, that worked. A few minutes later a waitress came over we ordered a couple of beers and some food and my roommate, flushed with his success a minute earlier, asked if he could charge it to the box. She laughed at us and said no. Still, it was a good time.
 
I'm actually shocked that there are more Yankee fans chiming in here than Sox fans. Still, too many of both I'd say. Let's go Mets!
 
1967 Redsox. We didn't have much TV coverage of them in Maine, with basically one or 2 TV stations in our area at the time, so i listened to them on the radio. I was a 12 year old little league all star at the time hitting around 700 or so and I thought baseball was such a cool sport and I discovered the Redsox that year which made it even cooler. I listened to probably every game over the 2nd half of that season and the entire team was a great young group of emerging players who were dead last the year before. And Yaz was nothing less than super human that year. I still get emotional thinking about it and it literally brings tears to my eyes. Maybe I'm weird but I lived and died on that team that year. They didn't win the pennant until the last day and Yaz was 6-6 in a double header if I remember correctly. I was a little kid who cared about basically nothing but the Redsox. And Yaz was my super hero.
 
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TeamFirst! said:
1967 Redsox. We didn't have much TV coverage of them in Maine, with basically one or 2 TV stations in our area at the time, so i listened to them on the radio. I was a 12 year old little league all star at the time hitting around 700 or so and I thought baseball was such a cool sport and I discovered the Redsox that year which made it even cooler. I listened to probably every game over the 2nd half of that season and the entire team was a great young group of emerging players who were dead last the year before. And Yaz was nothing less than super human that year. I still get emotional thinking about it and it literally brings tears to my eyes. Maybe I'm weird but I lived and died on that team that year. They didn't win the pennant until the last day and Yaz was 6-6 in a double header if I remember correctly. I was a little kid who cared about basically nothing but the Redsox. And Yaz was my super hero.
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Did you have the impossible dream season album the Red Sox put out?? Wish I still had it.
 
JeannoCT said:
Did you have the impossible dream season album the Red Sox put out?? Wish I still had it.
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I think I still have it somewhere. Probably all scratched to heck though. My albums have been in storage for 30 years now.
 
geordi said:
Well, there are the Yankees. Then there is what is laughingly called 'Major League' baseball. Oh, and there is a Triple A team that plays in some bandbox called Fenway Park.
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Double A
 
OT but related … was looking for buy a gift card for a Yankees game for my daughter teacher. I didn’t want to lock her into a date.
Any ideas of how to do that??? Thanks in advance
 
Now, this is a subject that I like to discuss. In the late 40's and 50's I really liked Boston and New York equally because of radio, Ted Williams and Joe Dimagio. Then the Yankees because of Mantle, Maris, Berra, Skowron, Richardson, Kubek, Rizzuto, Ford, Raishe, Lopat, etc. I like UConn baseball in 63 and 64 because I played on the team.

Today, I do not care for baseball at all because of the high priced prema donnas playing the game.

My favorite team today is the Albuquerque Dukes, AAA team. I like to sit either behind the catcher or on the third base line.
 
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Back in the old days the Waterbury Spirit used to run a special, 4 tickets, 4 hot dogs, and 4 sodas for $20. A fun Sunday afternoon. Can't beat the price. Unfortunately none of the locals supported the team. Maybe the price was too high for them?
 
Highlanders family since they got the name. bombers or bust is our motto. lol.
2nd fav memory, 9/23/07.
having sat at almost every locale in the stadium previously, we score tix for a new one, that section behind the wall in left center, where u looked thru a cutout window in the wall. to get there, u walked down a small set of stairs coming from the left field side, and onto a patch of concrete containing 20 or so folding chairs. after that, going toward rf, was the bullpen walkway to the field, with the bullpen on the other side of it. i think it was joba's dad who was disabled and mostly lived in a super wheel chair. he was there, as well as some central American diplomat who the announcers welcomed. of course, given the ability there to stand by the walkway, we were hoping to see Mariano the Great pass by, but Joba got the call. also cool. as luck would have it, it became joba's first career save. strange dynamic sitting there.

1st fav memory, 5/19/2009.
bro calls and sez 'let's go to the new stadium, ur boy CC is pitching.' first time at the new one, first time watching cc live. now, everything is soooo different. everything. top notch, first class all around. as we settle into our seats freakin barco loungers, and take it all in, we realize that we're in some kind of 'branded' section, with the amenities (food, restrooms, waitstaff, etc) all locked in to it. we thought 'whoa, this is sweet. i could get used to this...'
cc gave up just a few hits, Yanks won, and we were impressed by the changes. big time. Joba was the fourth starter that season as the Yanks won the series.

on another note, and as a longtime baseball fan, i learned long ago that 2 guys occupy a huge portion of mental space for fans of their teams. huge, and demonstrated again in this thread. the old marine (hank bauer), and the even bigger territory owned by the one known as 'dewey.' i get the marine thing, with many soldiers and ww2 being part of the culture in the 1950s, but the New England Dewey thing is on another level completely. that guy could win first selectman for any town in the region today. wasn't there so i don't know why, but the dewey thing is pretty cool. he must have paid everyone's phone bill or something like that back in that day. i think that the deeper u get into the hills and vales of New England, the stronger the deweymania thing is.
i bet that a movie titled 'the legend of dewey' would be a blockbuster around these parts. what he play, like 50 years ago? amazing.
 
upon further review, mebbe the donny baseball thing is like the dewey thing. neither guy was a ws champ, yet many fans still carry the torch for them, tho i don't think the donny baseball thing is as big as the dewey thing. i guess that i'll have to do another 'poll of the world' to find out.
let's play two!
 
in a time obsessed world, beisbol is great cuz there is no clock.
wave ur hands in the air like
u don't care...


iffn u drink a quart of hooch, smoke an ounce or so, and squint your eyes just right, that symbol on his jacket sort of looks like the bombers logo...sort of.
 
Yankees here. Highlights of games Ive been at...
  • The Aaron Boone game. Walkoff hr in game 7 of the ALCS
  • The next year - tried to capture lightning in a bottle twice and that fell flat. That game 7 was over before it got going.
  • Reggie's first game back at the stadium as an Angel. 1982 a 12 year old me was stunned to hear the fans chanting "Steinbrenner sucks!" at the owner's box the entire freaking game.
  • Mike Blowers making 4 errors at 3rd base in one game. I was down the 3rd base line and the brutal attacks fired at Blowers as fans were leaving were jarring. I have never seen one person take as much venom as he did that day.

Did I mention I was in the building for the Aaron Boone game? 7 rows from the top of the stadium almost directly behind home plate.

P.S. about Donnie Baseball. He was great for too short a time. Frigging back injuries. My all time favorite player, but he needed to do it at the highest level for a few more years then he did.
 
Red Sox fan. Was nominally a Royals fan when my family moved to CT when I was not quite 5. The kids I met were all Red Sox fans and so my path was clear. Honestly don't recall any Yankee fans in Manchester. There must have been some.

Great memories of Rice, Lynn and Evans and those 70s teams. The 1978 Red Sox are still the best Red Sox team I've seen. In 1986 I was at UConn and learned that Mets fans exist (I think most were just Yankee fans). Had never encountered a Mets fan and for the life of me can't understand why anybody would choose them. Then the demons were exercised in 2004.

The 2022 Sox have been maddeningly bizarre. Worst team in the AL at one point. Now in the playoff hunt again and playing well. Sort of like the Celtics. Sadly, the Yankees look awfully good.
 
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