By MIKE BURKE
So Mike Plaisance has finally put in print how he feels about Boston Red Sox fans.
Since Mike worked with me for several years at The Republican, I was well aware of his misguided and false impressions of us Sox fans.
The real truth lies in what Yankees fans are like:
Yankees fans still are members of the Horace Clark fan club.
Yankees fans like to emulate their heroes like Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford by going to night clubs and trashing the same.
Yankees fans talk like, and make about as much sense, as Casey Stengel.
Yankees fans think like Yogi Berra.
Yankees fans have monuments to their heroes and dogs like to visit those monuments.
Yankees fans who live in New Hampshire, where Mike Plaisance was raised, still get their mail and information by dog sled.
Yankees fans count success by the so-called celebrities who attend the games. Those celebrities are the only ones who can afford the "good" seats.
Yankees fans laugh when you go to a game, park your car and come out after the game and find out the car has been stolen, all ready resold and on its way to Europe.
Yankees fans still think Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe had a "great" marriage.
Yankees fans still name their kids after Miller Huggins.
Yankees fans laughed when that "Holy Cow" knocked down Phil Rizzuto on his day all those years ago.
Only Yankees fans can make sense out of A-Rod's contract.
Only Yankees fans can understand John Sterling.
Yankees fans won't admit to the existence of the New York Mets, and really, who can blame them for that.
Yankees fans only admit to the existence of Ivy League schools, except Harvard.
Yankees fans have no real sense of humor. They even think Billy Crystal is funny!
I can think of more, but, why bother.
Mike Burke, of Holyoke, is retired from The Republican; he is a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan.