<p>Patient:</p>
<p>Do you still have my private email? If not, I’ll try to reach you at the Charles. Have a good flight.</p>
<p>Count me as another Jersey Mets fan rooting rabidly for the Sox–last time we were in the WS, it was the Yankees that beat us; I’ve got no love for them. Anyway, the Sox are more my style</p>
<p>It is interesting to note that my son mentioned that there were actually more “anti-Yankee” enthusiasts than actual Red Sox “fans” in his dorm. His roommate is from California, and is definitely in the minority as a die hard Yankees fan. There are not that many kids from New England in the group.</p>
<p>(I was born in NY and husband in Ct. Our families have fans on both sides! In fact, a sister in VT has twin sons. You guessed it- one is a Sox fan,and the other is a Yankees fan!)</p>
<p>I was happy the Red Sox won because I thought it was an exciting series and I almost always root for the underdog. Was sad to see this article today, though. For as many years as I’ve studied and dealt with the consequences of human behavior, I don’t think I’ll ever truly understand it. </p>
<p><a href=“http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/baseball/mlb/specials/postseason/2004/10/21/student.hurt.ap/index.html?cnn=yes[/url]”>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/baseball/mlb/specials/postseason/2004/10/21/student.hurt.ap/index.html?cnn=yes</a></p>
<p>21 yo female Emerson student died in the following celebration. Hit by a police beanbag I believe.</p>
<p>Yikes…I guess I’ll be the (only) dopey Yankee fan to post here.
Congrats to the Sox; they proved they are the better team THIS year.
What an amazing comeback. Not unlike the many comebacks the Yanks have staged…</p>
<p>My yankee fandom comes via geography (NJ) and timing.
Our college freshman son was a rabid little leaguer, age ten, in 1996 when the Yanks really were the champs. S followed Jeter’s rise and invited us to watch the games with him.
Soooo, it’s really a family bonding thing in our family. But those few years were incredible baseball too.</p>
<p>Maybe the Sox are at the beginning of their own extraordinary run.</p>
<p>Idler,
Your post would be the start of a great essay</p>
<p>The Mets? I remember sitting at my desk in the second grade, learning about a new baseball team called “The New York Metropolitans.” Where’s the history? (I’m not that old.)</p>
<p>H says the Yanks are a bought team. I say that’s a tradition. Everybody in NY is bought. ;)</p>
<p>Yay Sox! (Also, a hello to my Boston CC friends, whom I miss and wish well.)</p>
<p>The Mets wear blue and orange, to honor the Dodgers and Giants, to continue the tradition of the senior league, not that upstart AL, where newfangled rules like the DH dishonor the tradition of baseball.</p>
<p>The Yankees? The team which forbids beards and mustaches (except that suspicious-looking wisp that Sheffield sports)? Where the pinstripes are as much corporate as they are tradition. They cut themselves off from their traditions…you can see it in the look of disgust on Jeter’s face at what the team around him consists of. Great column about that in the Times this morning.</p>
<p>I’ll take my hapless Mets, who in-between years like this year (the norm), managed to be the Amazin’s, and the Miracle Mets, but who don’t expect that winning all the time is their God-given right.</p>
<p>I hope this is an omen for another resident of Massachusetts. I was kind of hoping for a Houston/Red Sox Series. It probably would have been too emotional in this emotional time.</p>
<p>Garland, I’ve now read that column. Wait till h and s find out I read something in the sports pages!</p>
<p>Agreed that the Sox win may bode well for November…Fingers crossed. Am making lots of phone calls to swing states, now that I’m not watching those games every night.</p>
<p>Aparent5: during baseball season, I always go to the sports pages first-- I’m pathetic. I also hope this Mass. win bodes well for the other one: but I’m so superstitious that I’m almost afraid that getting one thing I hoped for jinxes the other one. (like I have that much influence!:)</p>
<p>Garland, you don’t have to worry; since I didn’t get the one thing that I hoped for, that means I will get the other! 
I have it all figured out…</p>
<p>Perfect! We have all our bases covered (so to speak…)</p>
<p>aparent5 and garland- As a life-long RedSox fan I share the belief that there is a planetary alignment issue taking place here and that therefore all other usual likelihoods are less likely…having said that, the other wasn’t so likely to begin with, so maybe now it is moreso? This is highly mathematical, of course. </p>
<p>My husband saw game 7 on tape delay at a local “sportsbar” (Takes on a different spin during Ramadan, but no matter). He was joined by another man who clearly was also a Sox fan. They got to talking. Turns out the other fan was a college friend of my husband’s first cousin and brother (who are all 12,000 miles away). Just proves there are infinite possibilities, and minimal degrees of separation between us all (especially those of us who lived and died with George Scott and Tony Conigliaro). </p>
<p>Up early getting ready for game 1. The last time the Cardinals and Sox were in the Series they wheeled a TV into my elementary classroom so we could watch the game!</p>
<p>I heard a Cubs fan over the weekend say that he hoped the Red Sox would win the World Series. Then maybe Sox fans would quit their whining about their “curse” and let the REAL cursed fans take center stage.</p>
<p>Last year, I was hugely rooting for a Cubs/Sox World Series. The turns of events which prevented this were truly bizarre–especially for the Cubs. They definitely do seem to have the edge when it comes to being cursed.</p>
<p>Alas, I have to admit that I am a LOYAL Yankee fan…boo hoo! My S who has lived in Boston since college and beyond wore his Yankee’s cap last wednesday to work and was harassed ALL DAY! He was even accused of being a “closet” Yankee’s fan…I guess which is probably worse than being a die hard one!!! There goes that bonus he was looking for in November…don’t these kids without social IQ’s ever learn???</p>
<p>We live in NJ. It should be ok to be a Mets fan in NJ, shouldn’t it? But when my son wore his Mets jacket to high school during and after the 2000 World Series, he was also harassed. Never mind social IQ; he should have put it away for fear of physical danger!</p>