The Lesser of Two Evils

Yankee fans are put in an awkward situation for this year’s ALCS. The matchup between the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox makes a Yankee fan wonder: who to root for? Of course, a lot of Yankee fans will choose option C of apathy, but the true baseball fans will still at least have moderate interest in the outcome. To root for the team that just knocked ours out of the playoffs, or to root for our arch-rivals. Neither side seems too attractive, but Yankee fans are likely to hear a lot less smack talk from Indian fans if they win then if the Red Sox were to win it all. Of course, there’s also less shame in losing to the World Series champions, so if the Indians were to win it all then it could soften the blow that the Yankees took by losing to them. Unfortunately, the Red Sox are already up one game to none in the series, but it is still very conceivable that the Indians could come back to win the series, especially considering the Red Sox will be pitching Tim Wakefield for the first time in nearly a month for Game 4. If the Red Sox were to win the World Series for the second time in four seasons then Yankee fans will never hear the end of it, so that is the main reason I will be rooting for the Cleveland Indians in this series. At least the Rockies could make this argument irrelevant with the way they have been playing.