One fan's opinion: Baseball's Greatest Rivalry

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There's only one great baseball rivalry: the Dodgers and the Giants. It's gone on longer than the Red Sox and Yankees, back to Charles Ebbets and John McGraw. It's happened on both coasts in New York and California. It's been more even-handed, since sometimes the Giants win, like in 1951 and 1971, and sometimes the Dodgers win, like in 1965 and last year. It's so intense that even when only one of the teams is in the playoff race at the end of the season, the team out of the race delights in spoiling the playoff chances of the other, which the Dodgers did to the Giants in 1937 and 1993 and the Giants did to the Dodgers in 1982 and 1991. Until last year, what the Red Sox and Yankees had was a slaughter, which the Yankees did consistently to the Red Sox. The Red Sox have now got to beat the Yankees out of a pennant about 10 more times before they're even.

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From MSNBC/Newsweek