View from the ‘Bridge

Despite my pride about living in Boston I still maintain close relationships with a number of relatives and friends who live in New York. They cover all the Jewey strongholds — New York City (all boroughs), Westchester County, and Long Island. Yes, I even admit that the man who raised me was a Yankees fan from Yonkers.

My New York family and friends always claim that the rivalry between our two towns is just a figment of our Bostonian imagination. They claim that it’s only those of us in New England who perpetuate this feud. They say that we produce the “Yankee Hater” t-shirts and get drunk and belligerent on our road trips to Yankee Stadium, but that they couldn’t care less about what we think of them. To my New York peeps, Boston is to them what Grace Ross was to Deval Patrick — irrelevant.

Bullshit!
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