A developing country (Red Sox 4, Yanks 1)

What a fiasco. The Yankees have been swept at Fenway. Let's get to the bottom of this:

1. The Red Sox are a hot team that are playing better than the Yankees right now.
2. The Yankees were missing Brian Bruney.
3. The Yankees were missing Nady, Arod, and even Ransom.
4. The Red Sox were also missing players, but their hitters performed in the clutch, while the Yankees hitters, especially the hitters at the bottom of the order, did not. Some of the Red Sox are putting up unsustainable numbers right now, and the Yankees were caught in the middle of it.
5. The officiating tended to favor the Red Sox, which they took advantage of.
6. Had Mariano not missed his spot, the Yankees win the first game. But give credit to Jason Bay. And give credit to the Red Sox for actually looking like the better team on the field in this rivalry, for the first time since the early 90's.

But I'm choosing my words carefully. They "look like" the better team "now". That's all. They might also "look like" the better team in the future, but not be. The Yankees will play better at home, while the Sox will play worse. The Yankees will reach 1,000 wins against the Red Sox this year, a great milestone in their grand tradition of humiliating them.

As for the fans, "Red Sox Nation", whatever that is, is clearly still a developing country. It's primitive neanderthal fans, dirty, drunken, chanting vulgar slurs in unison loud enough for the cameras to hear, but slurs not clean enough for newspapers to print, were at their ugliest in this series, which was to be expected. They have no real experience with winning, no understanding of what it means to have a good team, and their vile, pathetic hatred of the Yankees only continues to show that they still view themselves as inferior. And so they are. As the Arabs march and chant their slurs about America as the "Great Satan", so too do Red Sox fans, envious of our success, humiliated by their long tradition of defeat, turn to hate. I should pity them, but I'm not that nice of a person.