My current facebook status reads this: "lol, the NY Yankees just lost 8 nothing to the Texas Rangers. I hear food in NYC can be pretty expensive sometimes, via 'Everything is Bigger/Costs More in New York'...regardless, New York pizza > the Yankees"
...I've never been the biggest fan of the Yankees, considering the fact that it was the Cincinnati Red Stockings who lay claim to have been the first baseball team to pay all of their players thus becoming the first professional sports team in America.
If you combine the
fact that the Boston Red Sox were created once Harry Wright, the manager of the original Cincinnati Red Stockings left Cincinnati and moved to Boston (taking all of the best players from his team in Cincinnati with him) where the Red Sox proceeded to get their arses kicked for 86 years by their rival Yankees (following the curse of the Great Bambino) with the
fact that the New York Yankees now have the highest payroll of any professional baseball team, then the Cincinnati Reds' 5 World Series victories might seem a little pale in comparison to the Yankees' legacy, especially after witnessing how poorly the current Reds performed in this years' NLDS after winning the NL Central for the first time in 15 years.
While the Red Sox failed to make it into the post-season this year I did find it funny how New England Sports Ventures were still able to purchase the debt-ridden futbol club Liverpool at a discount, a testament to how many American sports franchises can continue to make profit even after enduring years of losing seasons. Take the city of Cincinnati for example; while both the Bengals and the Reds were having decade-long slumps as far as season records are concerned the city was still able to build both sports teams brand new, state-of-the-art sports facilities in Paul Brown Stadium (2000) and Great American Ballpark (2003), whereas a team like Liverpool can finish near the top of Barclay's Premier League year to year and yet still be unable to balance its checkbook at the end of a season. Or you can look at La Liga, where their top two futbol clubs are among the most recognizable sports teams in Europe, meanwhile the rest of the clubs in La Liga are much less universally known and struggle to gain air-time even in Spanish broadcasts.
All I'm trying to say is that while things may have been a little lackluster for Red Sox fans this season there is still the chance that their rivals the NY Yankees might be knocked out of the playoffs this round and fail to defend their 27th World Series. As a disgruntled Reds fan, I might have to side with y'all (the Red Sox) this season
.
...they
say baseball is a 'dying sport' but where else can one get the insurance necessary to build state-of-the-art sports facilities??
"If you build it, [they] will come"
-
Field of Dreams (1989)
