why he is known as The Traitor

after reaching the realization that there are people who call themselves sports enthusiasts or even sports professionals who just can not wrap their brains around the true depth of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry...and after getting caught up in a thread on a sports-related message board in which still more baseball fans criticized the JD reception at Fenway on Monday night...i came up with this to maybe help the well-intentioned but quite misguided fans who feel badly that JD got booed "after all he did for Boston":

Took some time to mull this over. It's like this:

Boston fans have not forgotten or stopped appreciating what JD did for us in 2004. If anything, it is the contrary. We remember all too well. He was part of our Dream Team. We cheered for him & screamed his name & loved him with wild abandon. And then he left us to play for the other side. It was the ultimate betrayal of our adoration of him. It made *us* feel as if HE had forgotten everything--the way we chanted his name in the stands & went crazy when he came up to bat or rose to our feet when he made a spectacular show of defense in center field. The boos are our response for feeling as if he turned his back on us. A friend of mine and fellow Red Sox fan equated it to a bad high school breakup. That's exactly it. Where you pretend to forget but you haven't. You remember every great moment & each time you see his face, it floods back & stings. This is how passionate Red Sox & Yankees fans are. Just go ahead & ask a die hard Yankees fan to imagine Jeter in Boston...