The Times takes up the critical question of locating the boundary between Red Sox and Yankees fans in New York and Connecticut. They do a comprehensive survey of the boundary line in CT, but only a fairly cursory sweep north.
Albany is on the Yankees side of the line, but it’s a near thing. Union’s student body is drawn heavily from New England, and runs probably 50/50, maybe leaning a bit toward the Sox (since some of the NY students are actually Mets fans).
Sadly for Kate, the situation is less positive for expat Bostonians in football– between the Giants (whose training camp is held in Albany), the Jets, and the Bills, she hardly ever gets a chance to see the Patriots…
(I’m tempted to put this in the “Culture Wars” channel on the front page– the real red/blue split is the one between Boston and New York, after all…)
Good article, thanks for the link. My dad grew up in New York, so I grew up a Yankees fan in Ohio, and now my son is a Yankee fan in Chicago. He got a lot of comments on his Yankee hat when we spent a week in Boston last year, and he almost never hears negative NY comments when he wears his Yankee cap in Chicago. He also didn’t want to leave Cooperstown this summer – Yankees everywhere, as it should be, and of course the Hallowed Hall Of Yankees (some call it the Hall of Fame).