By Geoff Walter / SNY.tv

 

A very similar headline blared from the backpages of the Daily News, 1096 days ago. For all our arguments (although you almost never hear them in this column), our petty discords, the territoriality when it comes to our teams, the either you are with us or you are with the enemy mentality you'd never expect coming out of a blue state, New Yorkers are nothing if not united more than ever before in our collected hatred of all things Boston at this point in time. At this point I couldn't care less. That right, you read the last sentence correctly.

 

I'm sick of the Red Sox, the Patriots, the Celtics, and the Eagles of Boston College. If they want the crowns so much let them have it. Yes, again your eyes did not deceive you. They'll soon find out that having is not so much as good as wanting. And if they haven't found out already, they'll learn that winning once too often brings the ire of everyone else. That tends to happen after you shed your lovable loser image and begin stringing together multiple championships, inching ever closer towards that seven-letter word with a "D" at the beginning and which I can't bring myself to contemplate let alone type.

If you believe a recent report on Google searches by location, Bostonians are far more obsessed with New Yorkers than we are with them. That's certainly been true judging by their neurosis with the Yankees; it's who they wanted to be for the past nine decades. If they want it so bad, let them have it. Just remember -- and this goes for Mets fans too -- be careful what you wish for, you may get it. After all, now you're just another team. There's no culture of sympathy for the long-suffering fans, no woe-is-us attitude, and no complaining about being second-fiddle to New York; there's really nothing special about you at all now. Just like the Yankees. That's what you wanted wasn't it Red Sox fans?

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