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Drawing the line between Red Sox, Yankees fans

Published Friday, August 18, 2006 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

I grew up a Red Sox fan in Connecticut. But I always knew, especially reading the Hartford Courant, that there were Yankees and Mets fans somewhere in the vicinity. Today's New York Times includes a dispatch from John Branch, attempting to actually find the border between Red Sox Nation and Yankee Country. Their best guess?

Always suspected something was wrong with Torrington. Now I know what that something was. Actually, this is the kind of thing I might've attempted to figure out, NYT job or not, just for the absurdity of it -- although my way would've been even more maniacally absurd in its obsessive desire to map it out to the most accurate detail. Then again, that's just me. How about you?