From BostonDirtDogs:
"Fans have told us loud and clear that, for families, such shirts are offensive." -- Charles Steinberg on the shirt ban
"It makes us look, as a community, like idiots." -- (sports writer) Bill Burt circa 2004, WEEI's The Big Show on the YS shirt wearing fandom
"I've stated many times that there is ZERO hatred on the field between these two teams (Red Sox-Yankees), for the most part, zero. Probably as much respect as anything... The hatred part is in the stands and in the media, they need that sorta stuff for material, and they make it into their own little story often times. What they don't make up, fans seem to give them willingly." -- Curt Schilling, circa 2004
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and from me:
"JETER IS PLAYING GOLF TODAY
THIS IS BETTER!"--sign at Red Sox victory parade
I was up in the Burlington, VT area over the weekend--thought it was both Yankees and Red Sox territory. You can hear the Red Sox (WJOY) and Yankees (WVMT, and WIRY across the lake
from Plattburgh) on the radio. Someone at the Vt. Expos game was wearing one of the "Choke: Official Soft Drink of the Yankees" shirts. But at the same game, there were loud cheers when the Yankees (they were winning) and Red Sox (they were
losing) scores were announced (Red Sox fans tried to shut them down).
A Winooski, VT bar's ad: CATCH ALL THE YANKEES GAMES HERE
(Me: Catch me boycotting the place.) I did eat at a pizza
place in Colchester, VT, called NY Pizza Oven. Food
quality? Eh, I've had better. Lots of pix of Yankees
teams in the place, yuck :)