Boston Red Sox vs New York Yankees
These days, the rivalry isn't always as high-stakes, it's more like the history of the two teams are being used as an excuse for high ticket prices for both respective towns. But, it used to have had a lot of heat going through in the 2000s when players like Derek Jeter and Pedro Martinez were active for both teams.
2004 was the year the Red Sox really stuck it to the Yankees by still being the only team in the MLB post season, to come back from a 0-3 deficit, win the series and eventually sweep the Cardinals for a World Series in 86 years at that time.
And while it was still a great feeling, for the Red Sox to win a few more titles in later years while the Yankees currently is in a 16-year drought for championships. You still have to weigh in the teams as to which team honestly is more successful and is able to make moves the other team can't and even as a Red Sox fan, it still ends up being the Yankees. The Red Sox would need to win more titles than the Yankees to even contest the success rate of the Yankees. The Yankees do appear dominating every other season, including the current one, while the Red Sox either keeps squeaking in the Wild Card series or just outright not making the playoffs.
So what other rivalries, fiction or non-fiction, is still considered a rivalry, but it's so one-sided that it makes you wonder why it is.
24 Comments
Late2TheParty@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 56d
How about the Mr./Miss Universe competitions? Has anyone, in their lifetime, seen an entity from outside planet Earth win?
Sorry for the shit joke. Please remove if this takes away from your very legitimate and interesting question.
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 56d
World Series comes to mind unironically.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 4 pts · 56d
The thing is that sometimes extraterrestrials that look human do participate, but if anyone finds out a contestant isn't actually human, the SCP foundation administers amnestics, the MIB turn up and use their neuralysers or whatever actually happens in our reality that is analogous to those things and our tho ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐จ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 56d
Drives me absolutwly barmy, no wonder aliens don't visit us, we're like the drunken neighbour pissing all over his own porch shouting "see this?? I claimed it. I'm the king of the whole dang neighourhood!" - what right do we have to declare our pageant show, steeped in unhealthy and human-centric beauty stsndards, as being the "unverse's one"? Also, very rigged if we're not going to invite any other planets.
thecommonistagenda@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 56d
Any Pokemon protagonist vs their rival who never wins by design
humanamerican@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 56d
NY pizza vs Chicago pizza. I wont say which one is dominant because its obvious ๐๐๐
adarza@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 56d
detroit wins.
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 56d
You are 100% correct.
Crispy like NYCโs. Satisfying like Chicagoโs, without being more sauce than toppings.
My favorite kind for sure.
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 55d
I've never really understood this one, it's really a one-sided rivalry. Chicagoans generally don't spend much time bragging about deep dish, aside from the occasional joke. If I mention I'm from the region, though, everyone and their sibling feels obligated to tell me that my preferences are wrong and that NY style is superior. It feels a bit like some overcompensation.
The forms of NY pizza and deep dish are so vastly different despite both being nominally called pizza and being made up of similar ingredients. Just eat what you like.
Also, technically, Chicago-style pizza is actually tavern-style pan pizza like this:
Wikipedia - Tavern style pizza
It's fucking yummy and is almost always my first choice.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 54d
TIL that Maryland-Style pizza was invented in Chicago. I love Ledo's. https://www.thebanner.com/culture/food-drink/maryland-style-pizza-ledo-KEDXUTN6ANHDRNIHUPMSC3CBL4/
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 56d
Jon Stewart intensifies
DigDoug@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 56d
The biggest one I can think of in Football is probably RCD Espanyol vs. FC Barcelona. Even if you don't follow football, you've probably heard of Barcelona - they're one of the top football clubs in the world. You may not have heard of Espanyol, and if you have it's probably as "the other club in Barcelona".
To show how truly one-sided the rivalry is, Espanyol have finished higher than Barcelona on 4 occasions. Barcelona have finished higher than Espanyol 87 times. I don't think you could find a Barcelona supporter who considers Espanyol to be a bigger rival to them than Real Madrid.
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 56d
Espanyol - Barรงa was my first thought. One team is usually fighting for winning the league and the other for staying in the league.
dreksob@feddit.online · 7 pts · 56d
Is Trump V Obama a rivalry? Everything Obama did, Trump has to do...but he just does it so much worse that its hard to say its a rivalry.
Jarlsburg@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 56d
The Harlem Globetrotters vs. the Washington Generals. At one point they had a >8,000 game win streak.
adarza@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 56d
minnesota vs michigan. one of the oldest rivalries in college football, dating back to 1892. the gophers have taken home the jug only four times in the last 48 games (1968 to present).
the_swagmaster@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 55d
Xbox Series Vs PS5
Twongo@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 54d
rural people vs city dwellers
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 56d
The cowboys vs everybody
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 56d
GOP vs Dems
PoopingCough@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 56d
GOP will always negotiate to the right. Luckily for them, so will Dems.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 56d
::: spoiler 2) Nerds versus Jocks. Believe it or not, some people still use terms like 'nerd' and 'geek' in a derogatory way.
Sorry dude, but if this is you, then you were born in the wrong century.
It's like announcing to the room "Yeah i'm a total BONEHEAD, and I'm proud of it. And that's why i have to bully people who like school or sci-fi, or video games. Because I'm not like them - I'm big and dumb instead!"
So, first half of my point is that it's identifying with a depiction designed to put you down. Second half of my point is basically that geeky hobbies and interests have effectively been in vogue for 21 years or so. I think a lot of people talk about this.
I'm also fairly convinced that the dynamic demonstrated in 70-90s high school movies (Think Grease, revenge of the nerds or Can't buy me love' for some particularly bad offenders) is completely fabricated. Perhaps demoralisation propoganda. Perhaps something to do with promoting anti-socialism or anti-civil-rights, tbh. :::
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 55d
What do the English have against fences? /joke
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 56d
Yeah, but the Yankees are assholes though
/s?