S1, E2: YANKEES SUCK

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4.5 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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How a chant and a shirt came to dominate one of baseball's biggest rivalries, thanks to a group of hardcore punks from Boston. Reported by Julia Lowrie Henderson. Hosted by Jody Avirgan. This piece was inspired by the Grantland article "Yankees Suck! Yankees Suck!" written by Amos Barshad. More at 30for30podcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From ESPN Films and ESPN Audio, you're listening to 30 for 30 podcasts.
0:13.5	Today, Yankees suck. It's arguably the greatest rivalry in sports, the Red Sox and the Yankees.
0:20.4	Boston fans have been chanting Yankees suck for decades, but in the late 90s, the faith of the
0:25.6	socks and the chant charted the same course, when a group of kids showed up at Fenway Park
0:30.6	with what would become one of the most successful bootleg t-shirts in history.
0:35.6	These guys aren't the only ones to profit off of Yankees suck, but they're definitely
0:39.1	the most colorful.
0:40.8	Our own Boston native and die-hard socks fan, Julia Lowey Henderson, tells the story.
0:46.6	A heads-up, this episode features a lot of strong opinions and even more profanity, starting
0:52.1	right now.
0:55.1	Welcome to Boston.
0:58.1	Let's be suck.
1:02.8	Why should I have to accept my words?
1:05.2	Why with the brain up?
1:06.2	I'll go be now.
1:07.4	Yankees suck.
1:08.9	Dick.
1:09.6	We hate the Yankee fans. we hate the way they talk.
1:13.2	They're out from, like, they're not even from the city.
1:16.0	Like, the further away from the city you go, like to the mall and the palisades,
1:20.7	the more you're going to hear some guy like,
1:22.2	but a bang, I'm a freaking Yankee fan.
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