What Rivalry is Bigger? Giants/Dodgers or Yankees/RedSox?

It your talking complete history, your talking Giants Dodgers all the way. Going to a Giants Dodger game here in SF is one of the best things you can do around here. It makes it seem like people around here love baseball again, and aren't there just for Bonds.

The Sox Yanks are overplayed and over hyped. They are shown too much on TV and when they had 4 out of the 5 games on ESPN and FOX that one time, enough was enough. A rivalry is competitve over the years, the Yanks just dominated for the first...80 or so.

I think its the Giants Dodgers, but its not the best well known, but its bigger.

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I think RedSox/Yankees is the biggest rivalry, but my perception may be biased because I'm from Boston. Around here, the three most important things to remember are

1. Look both ways before crossing the street 2. Don't talk to strangers and 3. Yankees suck. When Red Sox fans see a New York Yankees logo, they generally have the same reaction that they do when they see a swastika! And Yankee fans seem to hate the Red Sox just as much. When I lived in the NYC metro area for a year, everyone made so much fun of me for being a Red Sox fan.

Well, for the past 20 years its probably the Sox-Yanks. The Giants Dodgers rivalry seemed to cool down. But No Doubt is the Dodgers Giants the best all time. The reason I say this is bcuz, there doesnt usually seem to be a Yankees side to the rivalry. In the media, you always hear about the rivalry, but it always seems to come from the Red Sox side. I think the Red Sox hate the Yanks more than the Yanks hate the Sox. The Dodgers Giants is equal strong hate. Always benn that way.

The Giant/Dodger rivalry is a great one, although some of the intensity left when they moved.

However, nothing tops Yankees/Red Sox. New York and Boston are two of the best baseball cities in the league and the fans are very, very passionate about the sport. MLB players themselves make a distinction between "East Coast baseball" and the rest of the league.

Wearing Yankee colors in Fenway or Boston bars is also asking for trouble. Wearing Boston colors in Yankee stadium or the city isn't as dangerous but stuff still happens.

Red Sox fan chant "Yankees suck" at OTHER SPORTING EVENTS. They even did it at the Patriots first Super Bowl parade party in '02. Where else does this happen?

The Sox beat the Angels, Indians and Rockies to win this year but Sox fans still only taunt the Yankees on YA, not the fans of those teams.

The "Boston Massacre 2" of 2006 was amazing for me, a lifelong Yankee fan, as was Boone's home run in the '03 and how the Yankees kept the Sox down during the late '90s.

I would say Yanks/Sox at this point The Giants and Dodgers had a great rivalry during the 50s and 60s, but since then, they have rarely both been good at the same time. Meanwhile, the Yanks and Sox have gone through several generations of both teams being good at the same time... The Yanks and Sox were both great teams in the mid-late 70's, both were good pretty much throughout the 80s, and the late 90s and 2000's have seen some great season and post-season series between the two teams. There has probably never been anything like the Giants / Dodgers rivalry of the 50s and 60s... incredible hatred between the players on both sides...and both were great, great teams... Drysdale, Koufax, Mays, McCovey, Marichal, G. Perry, etc... but for the last 30 years or so, each team has had a little run of being good, but almost never at the same time. Which means that, when they play each other, it's for bragging rights only, and not to decide who goes to the post season (or who advances in the post season). The Yanks and Sox have played many more meaningful regular season (and post season) games against each other over the last 30+ years. Geez, they played back to back 7 game ALCS's in 2003 and 2004... teams in the same league can't play any games more important than an LCS.

The New York/Boston rivalry is definitely bigger; it cannot be overrated. Giants-Dodgers rivalry may be one of the oldest in baseball, but New York/Boston is one of the biggest in SPORTS HISTORY. The cities of New York and Boston have been rivals since the American Revolution. Since before the start of the American Revolution, Boston and New York have shared an intense rivalry as cities. While the Sons of Liberty stirred up the flames of revolution in Boston, Tories (loyalists) in New York argued that America should stay loyal to Great Britain.

Now fan rowdiness...all right I'll tell you a story. I went to Yankee Stadium sporting a Red Sox jersey. I of course knew I was gonna get sh*t talk, but what I saw was unbelievable: they actually made a little kid wearing a Red Sox jersey cry. Like full out, burst into tears explosion crying.

In Boston, a Yankees jersey on your back is like a giant target on Osama Bin Laden's back; soon as they see it fans swarm over you and mosh pits will happen in the middle of the streets, especially if the Red Sox beat the Yankees that day.

There is no way that the Red Sox/Yankee rivalry is overrated. Their fans HATE each other. We know when the two teams play each other during the season before the season starts, know the stats of every player on the other team, and there are always fights in the stands during the games. Boston fans are also likely to break into the "Yankees Suck" (how original), at ANY gathering of more than two people. I'm from Upstate New York, and feel like cursing any person who has a red "B" on their hat.

It's also made worse that the teams compete for fans, as the cities are only 200 miles apart.

They're both great rivalries...but I'm going to have to go with the Red Sox and Yankees. That's a rivalry that everyone knows about. It doesn't take a Red Sox or Yankee fan (or even a baseball fan for that matter!) to know a little something about their rivalry. However, the Giants and Dodgers rivalry requires someone to be a bit more knowledgable of baseball.

Some would argue that the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry dates back to Ruth trade in 1918

Definitely Yankees and Red Sox. Like what most people have said, I never knew that there was a Giants/Dodgers rivalry.