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Fenway on the Hudson?

Fenway on the Hudson?
By JAKE MOONEY
Published: October 31, 2004

FROM: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/nyregion/thecity/31reds.html
A FEW months ago I was in Boston for a wedding, and I wore my Yankees hat on a quick trip to buy some film. It was cold and rainy, and I wanted to keep the water off my glasses. I didn't even think about the interlocking "NY.'' But I was reminded soon enough. Everywhere I looked there were glares. Finally, on my way back to the hotel, one old woman drew close to me at a crosswalk and grumbled, "Boo, Yankees."

The thing is, I wasn't upset. This is how rivalries are supposed to work, and those Boston people were just doing their job. I've been thinking about that day a lot lately, in light of the Yankees' catastrophic playoff loss and the Red Sox victory in the World Series.

Maybe I'm a bit paranoid - I am a Yankee fan, after all, and it has been cold and lonely at the top - but lately, I could swear I hear the footfalls of New Yorkers jumping off the Yankee bandwagon and scurrying onto another. Maybe people are sick of the Yankees' cool efficiency or charmed by the frat-boy beards and dirty hats of the Red Sox. Or maybe I'm just hanging out in the wrong places, but lately too much of New York has seemed like a Red Sox town.

I watched Game 6 of this year's league championship in a bar called the Turkey's Nest, on the northern fringe of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It's a no-frills kind of place, where they serve the beer in giant plastic cups and they don't care if you smoke. And like a lot of other bars in Williamsburg, it has an uneasy mix of regulars: neighborhood old-timers and the hipsters who have just shown up. Young post-collegiates in ironic T-shirts and forklift drivers in sincere ones.

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