Posted August 03, 2018 at 06:23 AM | Updated August 03, 2018 at 06:38 AM
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In this day and age in baseball in which there’s a lot of schmoozing and friendships between opposition players, we’re pretty certain that the Yankees do not – repeat, do not - hate the Red Sox.
And we’re pretty certain that the Red Sox don’t hate the Yankees.
We don’t even think these age-old rivals dislike one another.
They used to back in the day, but not anymore.
Based on conversations we’ve had with players from both teams in recent years, on and off the record, we believe what the Yankees and Red Sox feel for one another more than anything is mutual respect as a fellow American League East superpower.
The best rivalry in sports is a hated one.
It’s the fans on both sides that make it this way.
The fans made it this way decades ago and perhaps the only thing changing over the years is the level of hatred has grown due to social media, which allows fans to go at it on Twitter and comment sections of blogs.
It’s obvious Yankees and Red Sox fans hate everything about the other.
Yankees fans hate the name Red Sox, hate their colors, hate the players.
It’s mutual, too.
And it’s all in good fun, of course.
The player hating adds to the fun, especially the heckling that goes on during games … you know, the abuse that A-Rod always received at Fenway and the boos that David Ortiz always heard at old and new Yankee Stadium.
And so, with the Yankees and Red Sox going at it again this week in another showdown series at Fenway, we compiled a list of 20 past and present Red Sox players that (we think) Yankees fans hate the most … or should hate the most.
Some that made our list are obvious, others aren’t.
Some were great Red Sox players that were easy to hate while others did something memorable to make them forever despised.
Here’s our list ... and tell us who we missed!
Joe Cronin, player-manager
Born: Oct. 12, 1906.
Died: Sept. 7, 1984 (age 77)
Career stats: .301 average, 2,285 hits, 170 HR, 1,424 RBI, .857 OPS, 2,124 games, 7 All-Star Games over 20 seasons with Pittsburgh Pirates (1926-27), Washington Senators (1928-34), Boston Red Sox (1935-45).
Red Sox stats: .300 average, 1,168 hits, 119 HR, 737 RBI, .878 OPS, 1,134 games, 4 All-Star Games over 11 seasons (1935-45).
Why Yankees fans (should) hate him: The Hall of Famer was a player-manager with the Red Sox on May 30, 1938 when he fought Yankees outfielder Jake Powell on the field and then underneath the stands at Yankee Stadium. Both players were fined and suspended for 10 games. Powell got the last laugh, as the Yankees won the World Series in ’38.
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Johnny Damon, OF
Born: Nov. 5, 1973 (age 44)
Career stats: .284 average, 2,769 hits, 235 HR, 1,139 RBI, .785 OPS, 2,490 games, 2 All-Star Games in 18 seasons with Kansas City Royals (1995-2000), Oakland Athletics (2001), Boston Red Sox (2002-05), New York Yankees (2006-09), Detroit Tigers (2010), Tampa Bay Rays (2011) and Cleveland Indians (2012).
Red Sox stats: .295 average, 730 hits, 56 HR, 299 RBI, .803 OPS, 2 All-Star Games in four seasons (2002-05).
Why Yankees fans hated him: Before Damon switched loyalties and became a popular Yankee, he was a symbolic leader of the Red Sox’s Idiots in 2004 with his long hair and bushy beard. And it still sickens Yankees fans remembering Damon prancing around the bases at Yankee Stadium after his second-inning grand slam off Kevin Brown gave the Red Sox a 5-0 lead in their Game 7 2004 ALCS blowout win.
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