The New York Post says every Bostonian would move to NYC if they could.
Yeah, if you want to pay $2,500 per month to live in a closet and deal with a constant cacophony of late-night noise and who knows what else.
The Red Sox are hosting the Yankees tonight for the AL Wild Card game, and naturally, Rupert Murdoch’s rag ran a tired editorial about how Boston sucks. All of the hits are in there: ripping on our pizza; complaining about an accent that isn’t heard outside of Mark Wahlberg movies; making fun of Mark Wahlberg himself.
There’s even a line about how often drivers in Boston get into car accidents. Hilarious.
“But whichever team wins Tuesday to advance to take on Tampa Bay in the AL Division Series, Boston — not even good enough to be nicknamed “The Second City” — will surely never be New York,” the Post editorial board writes.
Of course, the Yankees provided the Post — and any NYC-supremacists — with great fodder when they swept the Red Sox at Fenway Park last week. It was maybe the Red Sox’s most embarrassing weekend at Fenway since the Yankees swept them for five games in August 2006, effectively ending their season.
But it will only take one win for the Red Sox to turn around the narrative. Then we’ll see if tired jokes about Dunkin’ Donuts being considered “fine dinin’” (it isn’t) are so funny.
With first pitch slated for 8:08 p.m., Tuesday afternoon would be the perfect time to step away from the laptop and grab a few at your friendly neighborhood establishment. Except, as the Post mentions, there’s no happy hour here.
Win or lose, that’s one place where New York has Boston beat.
