#691 How Babe Ruth Saved My Life- Toure
Sports allegiances are a serious thing, and if you are a serious sports fan you know that there are unspoken rules about which team you are allowed to root for. And if you ever think about changing your allegiance from one team to another, you better have a good reason. If your team changes cities for example, or if you move cities, maybe after a certain interval you can change teams. But there is one hard and fast rule in sports allegiances in American sports: Red sox fans and Yankees fans hate each other and you cannot, EVER change allegiances from one to the other.
“For a Bostonian to become a Yankee fan is for a Kennedy to become a Republican, an Irish Catholic to become a Jew. The Sox and Yanks are more than sports teams—they’re extensions of the local ego.”
One prep school kid is duped into thinking he can predict the outcome of the 1986 World Series and bets every kid in his New England school that the Mets will win. When his whole world is about to come down on his head, his life is saved by the “Curse of the Bambino.” Suddenly he changes his tune:
“If you could choose your parents you’d choose the best. If you could choose your team you’d choose the Yanks.”
Fun story, some of the details about betting are a little unbelievable (like needing to offer 75-1 to get people to bet one side of a World Series). No matter, GO YANKEES!!!
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