My take

Last fall when John came to me with this idea my first reaction was, "Okay." Ever since Freshman year of college when I met John and the rest of our friends I have almost always been up for seemingly crazy things like this. We drove three hours in the middle of the night to go to the nearest White Castle (before Harold & Kumar, thank you), bought six ducks on a whim, and built stadium seating in our on-campus house as well as many tamer, but no less spontaneous things. So it wasn't a ridiculous idea coming from John and since I didn't have any commitments at the time I was in.

John expressed below how he doesn't want to be one of those people who doesn't follow through with things, and I totally agree. It's why I moved to Austin last year when people said I wouldn't follow through and why I don't always tell people my plans until I'm actually going through with them. Call it caution. Call it spite. Call it having too many stupid ideas. Whatever you call it, it seems we're doing it again.

As for the actual reason for me doing this, it is slightly more academic than John's. I'm not a huge Yankees or Red Sox fan (although I would fall firmly with the Sox between the two) or even a big baseball fan. The rivalry though, that intrigues me. As an outsider it seems... silly I guess, that baseball teams should cause this much turmoil between cities that really aren't very far from each other. I know that they do though and admittedly I do get excited every time they play each other in the post-season. Even as an outsider.

I'll stop myself before I ramble on too much, but I just have to say that I really look forward to seeing people's reaction to this. These teams are a huge part of what their cities are and it'll be cool to see how the people think right in the middle.