Are Rivalries Good for Baseball?

If you ask me, rivalries are excellent for baseball. Fans and players love that kind of tension going into a game. It makes it more fun, entertaining, and makes the players play at a higher level then usual. You cant let the other team have bragging rights for the year or till the next time they play in the regular season. Its one of the worse things a team can allow to the other. Newspapers, magazines, radios, and TV stations will talk about it for the whole week. Players, coaches, owners, and fans hate having to listen to it.
One of the biggest rivalries is between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. When these 2 teams meet up, its always a great game. Players go at with each other. Fans go at it and sometimes the coaches will even go at it. It makes a game that people find lazy and boring that much more exciting to watch and they even enjoy it. Other rivalries like the Cubs and Brewers, Braves and Mets, Yankees and Mets, and Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs all make the baseball season that much more enjoyable.

The Yanks and Red Sox have been dueling it out ever since the famous trade these 2 made that sent Babe Ruth to the Yanks some think its from the 1904 pennant race. The Sox and Yanks have given us the pennant races of '48 and '49, Aaron Boone's unlikely walkoff, and Boston's impossible comeback in the 2004 ALCS. And as with any good blood feud, there's been plenty of on-field violence, including Pedro Martinez's judo-toss of Don Zimmer and any number of brawls involving Carlton Fisk.This is one of the most heated rivalries in all of baseball which makes me, a Yankee fan that much more excited for spring training to get and eventually the regular season. Its America's past time, how cant you enjoy the sport of baseball?