Short Entry: Raising Boston's Blood Pressure
Having grown up a U. Michigan Wolverine, am used to being object of intense sports rivalries, and am thus inordinately amused by them. I am thus sympathetic, understanding, and especially amused about any involving Boston, which my very good friend hoya99 calls his original home and sports loyalty.
For many years, hoya99 suffered stoically the frustrations of being a Boston sports fan, recently reversed in rather dramatic fashion (three NFL Championships and a World Series will do that). But the flame of rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox baseball teams is a thing of American legend, stretching back as far as the beginning of the last century and Babe Ruth. Something not even the absolute, complete, and punishing humiliation the Red Sox delivered like an enraged baseball God upon the hapless Yankees in 2004 could quench.
Which is why I find recent news from Boston so amusing. The local Boston major sports area, home of the basketball and hockey teams, is currently, while looking for a new name, auctioning the daily rights to name the arena for charity. Among the recent winners was an online casino and a die-hard Boston sports fan who asked the area be named for his equally die-hard beloved. But the Fleet center is in a slight dilemma, because one of the recent winners has innocently asked that the sports arena, standing in the very heart of Boston, be named for Derek Jeter -- captain of the New York Yankees...
Story here. Hee! :-)