We still cannot comprehend how the baseball community at large has not yet identified the Boston Red Sox fanbase as the worst in sports. New York Yankees fans have their obvious flaws, but they’re all predictable and outdated. The Yankees have largely been a laughingstock of sorts since 2004.

But Boston? They have the most World Series titles since that year, yet they still act like they’re the trendy, small town underdog. They still pretend as if the Yankees are the big bad bullies who tortured them up until 2004. Worst of all, however, is they have no shame. They claim baseball doesn’t matter when they’re bad, and they seek out every last person to verbally abuse when they’re good.

Just look at the 2025 season. Fans were raging against John Henry for not spending in the offseason. Then he signed Alex Bregman, and everything was back on. “This guy rules even though we thought he sucked!” Then they traded Rafael Devers and it was time to boycott the franchise for shipping off another franchise icon. Then they ripped off 10 straight wins and the “World Series was back on.”

This year, they were eliminated by the Yankees in the postseason for the first time since 2003. Heading into the Wild Card Series, Yankees fans were told they were going to get boat-raced and they might as well start packing their bags. Then when New York ripped off two wins after losing Game 1, Red Sox fans told us it actually didn’t matter because this year was never their year anyway. The Yankees beating them wasn’t a big deal because they were missing … 21-year-old Roman Anthony who appeared in 70 career games. Let’s not forget, Red Sox fans puffed out their chests so hard after Garrett Crochet stole Game 1 that they choked and started coughing uncontrollably the moment they inhaled. They lost to the Yankees when it mattered most.

Of course, once the result was final, the Wild Card Series all of a sudden “didn’t matter” according to these geniuses … but don’t tell that to 2021 Red Sox fans, who won the single-game WC game against the Yankees in a format that no longer exists and celebrated like they just achieved world peace. Boston used that as ammo for the last five years, claiming they still “owned” the Yankees in the playoffs.

Sad franchise the Yankees are, right? Almost as sad as the Red Sox, in fact, who thought not making the playoffs from 2022-2024 was considered a “drought”. Oh no! Playoff-less for three years?! What ever will we do?!

As Boston fans did their best to invalidate the Yankees beating their heads in and ending their season (after holding a massive, cringe watch party), their entire identity became rooting against New York in the playoffs. They became Blue Jays fans in short order, watching every second of every game, pouncing on any moment possible to agitate and trigger the weakest of Yankees fans on social media.

Yeah, Aaron Judge is a “cornball” but one-hit wonder Jarren Duran is the coolest, right? Some random Boston folk hero who did one good thing one time is always the trump card.

We can’t forget about the early celebrating Boston fans were doing in Game 3 of the ALDS against the Blue Jays when New York was down 6-1. Victory lap after victory lap, only to have it all get stuffed down their throat when they Yankees stormed back to win 9-6. Red Sox fans knew they had two more chances to be top-tier trolls. And even then it didn’t matter because they would be tracking New York’s every move no matter how far they went.

And if they won the World Series? Well, that was never happening, but we can already hear the excuses ranging from another team suffering injuries to the playoff field being weak to it’s about time Aaron Judge did it, that loser!

But again, the most pertinent point of all is that the Yankees, after getting decked by the Red Sox in the regular season, eliminated (!!) Boston from the playoffs, and these fans still think they have a leg to stand on.

They’re doing their favorite thing Yankees fans used to do: referencing past success as a shield against the here and now. The Red Sox will not win a World Series in 2025 because the Yankees stopped them. Their championship “drought” is now seven years. But they will still mention 2018. They will still mention 2013, 2007 and 2004 (well, yeah, they have a right to rub 2004 in our faces forever), but they are doing their best “27 rings!!” impression as they watch their team fail over and over again, with only an outlier ALCS run in 2021 to their names — one that should have never happened.

At this point, Yankees fans can’t even be bothered by this. It’s so pathetic, and it’s become a redundant, boring rallying cry. Hundreds of Red Sox fan accounts dedicate their time — their lives — to tracking every Yankees failure, even if Boston was one of the victims along the way. The best way to put it? Yankees fans are almost embarrassed for Red Sox fans at this rate.

Tom Brady leaving Boston really did a number on this city. This new generation of fans (and the ones from the turn of the century) truly has no idea how to act when they’re losing. The Red Sox might’ve destroyed the Yankees’ identity in 2004, but Boston fans have destroyed their own in much shorter order. The Yankees losing is their Super Bowl. Mentally, they have become a perennial loser in a small market. And the rest of the baseball world follows their lead. Sad state of affairs, such is the world.