Let's go Sox!

Yes, Manny Ramirez is a bit much to take at times. Yes, Boston just won the Series a few years ago, after the famed "Curse" drought. No, I'm not a huge fan of Boston (neither the city nor the band). Yes, the Red Sox Nation is populated by quite a few wannabe Irish-American goofs who also follow (the horribly mispronounced) Notre Dame (at least when either team is doing well) and buy Dropkick Murphys downloads and chug green beer in March, all in the belief that's what the leprechauns would have the Western Hemisphere Hibernian do.

All that said, I'd much rather have a real East Coast city with roots, traditions and a multi-generational following win than a Boomburb, Red State expansion team filled with born-agains who believe that the J-Man personally guides their Holy Sliders, not having a busy schedule with wars or wildfires or that sort of thing. Go Sox.