The Terror Alert Level has been elevated again after the President warned of possible sectarian violence between Yankees fans and Red Sox fans.
This follows the arrest of Ivonne Hernandez of New Hampshire on charges of second-degree murder and drunk driving, stemming from an incident on Friday night at a Nashau sports bar...
According to prosecutors and various reports... Hernandez drove at a group of people outside Slade's Food & Spirits... hitting and killing 29-year-old Matthew Beaudoin... The incident was reportedly sparked after Hernandez identified herself as a Yankees fan and someone in Beaudoin's group started chanting "Yankees suck!"
What happened to a good ribbing at your rival's expense? (More importantly, when did Lizzie Grubman get out on bail?)
When we were kids, we were really into baseball... and deathly afraid of Yankees fans. A friend's Dad told us this story (which we have put in our own words):
In the late seventies or early 80s, when Rod Carew was still playing for the Twins, I went to a Red Sox game at Fenway Park with an old friend of mine. This friend knew Rod Carew and Rod got us seats near the dugout. He came out to say hello before the game started and at the end of the conversation, asked us if we wanted anything, you know, from inside the baseball inner-world. I brazenly requested a Red Sox baseball cap from the actual Red Sox dugout. Rod nodded and went straight to their bench to ask for one.
I kept that cap for years-- you could say it was my most prized possession. Rod went on to the California Angels and although I've always been a Sox fan, I supported and admired him all his career. One year, I was at Yankee Stadium for a Yankees-Red Sox game and wore the hat Rod Carew had given me. At some point, as the game heated up, a man approached me with a knife in his hand. After a pause, he said, "Give me that hat." When I gave it to him, he set it on fire.
