What is the most heated rivalry of Baseball?

Yankees and Red Sox
Giants and Dodgers
or something else.

In my opinion, Giants and Dodgers. It's a long standing rivalry that stretches back to when they resided in New York State. The fans are rowdy and fights break out. Every season, youtube is filled with Giants Rule Dodgers Suck videos and vice versa. Message Boards on the official sites are bombarded with those messages and Yahoo Answers is filled with these messages.

New York and Boston are just overhyped because it's New York. The center of attention!

2007-09-26T18:05:54Z

Yes Sox and Yanks date back to Babe, but that curse is gone now. The only reason why the Yanks and Sox are big is because of their location in the world and their knack for spending big money on aquiring players. The Giants and Dodgers always play each other either last or second to last series and has always knocked off someone out of playoff contention. Except for recently now that my Giants have tanked. Giants and Dodgers are underrated and the Sox and Yanks are overrated. Too much publicity.

BTW, I hate Dodger fans so every dodger remark will be rated down, but not reported. I'm not that mean, everyone is entitled to their opinion even if their opinion sucks.

2007-09-26T18:09:47Z

Californians? Not as rowdy as New Yorkers and the Boston Beaners? - You watch way too much Laguna Beach my friend. Don't forget. LA area is not glamorous. Try walking in Compton with a Giants jersey or in the Bay Area with a Dodgers jersey. And in oakland, if you were a dodgers jersey. and in some cases if you wear a giants jersey. Oakland born here, but most of us love both our A's, Giants, Niners, and Raiders. When Bonds leaves, I want him to go to the A's. Oakland wasn't upset at Zito for leaving for San Francisco.

2007-09-26T18:14:30Z

Blankman has put my point across exactly! I have nothing against New York. The Giants were once a New York team and we in San Fran. proudly hold that tradition in the retro jersey days. I enjoy seeing Bonds and company in the NY pinstripes of the past. Sox and Yanks is just too overplayed and overhyped and it hasnt gotten interesting until now. The hate is just extreme in SF-LA and even the Chi-town rivalry is even bigger than the Sox-Yanks. When it comes down to it, I rank it like this.

Giants-Dodgers
Chi Sox - Cubs
Yanks - Sox

Everyone made good points.

2007-09-26T18:18:36Z

T-Wolfe proves to me why Yanks and Sox is not as heated. When Kent left us and then joined the Dodgers later, we were devastated. We still boo him today. It's like a slap on the face for a person to leave us for the rival. And we boo Jason Schmidt even though he was one of our best pitchers in the last decade. Dodgers to Giants are like evil. It's like if Luke went to the Dark side of the force.

2007-09-26T18:32:23Z

Yea Piano Stud, this is a serious question, do you see the long comments left. It's a serious conversation. Yanks/Sox are not the definition of rivalry. Tyson and Holyfield are more of a rivalry than the sox and yanks.

Anonymous2007-09-26T18:04:39Z

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I agree. Im a giants fan, but I un-biasedly say this. Giants-Dodgers have been even over the century, and streches back to the 1800's when the Giants were the New York Gothams. The rivalry has been even, with the dodgers winning 6 titles, and the giants five...as opposed to the Yanks basically dominating over this time. Just recently have the Red Sox made it interesting. Think about the shot heard round the world in 51' Bobby Thompson with the home run...."Giants win the pennant!" Even today, the Giants are in last place, but fans will kill to go to a Giants-Dodgers game just to the harass the "bums." I've been to Fenway, and I can honestly say that their rivalry isnt as good as this one. The only reason it feels this way is that ESPN...East Coast Sports Programming Network only plays Yanks/Sox. I can give you many other reasons why, but Giants-Dodgers will always be #1

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twolfe2007-09-26T18:08:45Z

my vote is the New York Yankees vs. the Boston Red Sox. over the last 50 years and more recently the last 30, the number of significant games and series with tremendous drama is unrivaled. The fans maybe more rowdy in the Giants vs. Dodgers but the on field games and even some of the more recent on-field battles amongst players (Varitek vs. A-Rod, Zimmer vs. Pedro) is perhaps more relevant! Boston and Yankee fans are pretty civil to each other in many regards since they recognize the on-field performances and the way each team never gives up and fights. And most Yankee fans welcomed Johnny Damon, even though he personally defeated them in the 2004 ALCS because he was valued for his hustle and intensity. And every Yankee fan would take David Ortiz in pinstripes in a heartbeat since he too is a great player. And all Boston fans respect Derek Jeter for his years of strong play and service and contributions to the great battle that occurs 18 or 19 times a year in the regular season while the playoff battles are epic.


I think Wikipedia sums it up well:

The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is one of the longest and most bitter rivalries in professional sports. For over 100 years, baseball's New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox of the American League have been chief rivals, compounded by their geographic proximity.

Since the inception of the wild card team and an added Division Series, the American League East rivals have squared off in the American League Championship Series three times, the Yankees winning twice in 1999 and 2003, and the Sox winning once in 2004. In addition, the teams have met in the last regular season series of a season to decide the title, in 1904 (where the Red Sox won), 1949 (where the Yankees won). The teams also finished tied for first in 1978, when the Yankees won a high-profile one-game playoff for the division title.

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Frizzer2007-09-26T18:25:36Z

I grew up a Dodgers fan so of course I would say the Dodgers and the Giants. However, living on the east coast now I can see why so many will say the Yankees and the Red Sox. So let's just leave it that both sides of the country both have a good argument as to which one is more heated.

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Anonymous2007-09-26T19:40:56Z

Yanks Redsox is the most hyped since ESPN is their person radio networks, plus it has gone on the longest, since the dodgers have only been in LA for what under 50 years?

So since it is so overplayed I will say it, even though there are alot of other people outside of Boston and New York could care less.

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Anonymous2007-09-26T18:01:17Z

Yankees - Boston goes back to 1920, long before the Dodgers ever won a pennant. It's hotter than ever the past decade while LA - San Fran has way cooled off.

Laid-back Californians could never get as excited as New Yorkers and Bostonians.

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