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.
Xbox Series Vs PS5
The Harlem Globetrotters vs. the Washington Generals. At one point they had a >8,000 game win streak.
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.
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.
World Series comes to mind unironically.
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 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
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.
Any Pokemon protagonist vs their rival who never wins by design
NY pizza vs Chicago pizza. I wont say which one is dominant because its obvious 😁😁😁
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
Tavern-style pizza, also known as party-cut pizza, is a type of pizza originating from Chicago that has both a thin crust firm enough to have a noticeable crunch and slices cut into squares, as opposed to wedges.
It’s fucking yummy and is almost always my first choice.
detroit wins.
You are 100% correct.
Crispy like NYC’s. Satisfying like Chicago’s, without being more sauce than toppings.
My favorite kind for sure.
Jon Stewart intensifies
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.
Espanyol - Barça was my first thought. One team is usually fighting for winning the league and the other for staying in the league.
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 cowboys vs everybody
GOP vs Dems
GOP will always negotiate to the right. Luckily for them, so will Dems.
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.
- Sometimes English people insinuate there’s still some rivalry with fence but they clearly haven’t given the epic rivarly any thought since Napoleon. Oh but maybe that just shows we beat them very soundly, amd won. Huzzah!
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.
English people insinuate there’s still some rivalry with fence
What do the English have against fences? /joke
Yeah, but the Yankees are assholes though
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