But not everyone from Boston is a diehard Red Sox fan. In fact, some said they even preferred the Yankees.
"I love the Yankees. I watched them yesterday, [and] they're a very good team," said one Bostonian who works in Harvard's Loker Commons and who declined to be named. "The Red Sox have a lot of problems with race issues. I don't like them because of the way they treat their players."
"The Yankees are really diverse--a lot of Spanish and Latino players--and they're like a family," this Bostonian continued. "That's pretty much why they're the champions."
But if not all Bostonians love the Red Sox, then neither are all New Yorkers Yankees fans.
"I hate the Yankees," said Aram Marks '02. "I'm a Mets fan. The Mets are losers. But you can't be a Yankees fan if you're a Mets fan."
As the Yankees celebrate their victory today in the Parade of Champions in New York City, everyone from post-game reporters to Internet pollsters is asking the same question: "Are the Yankees the best team ever?" Some students at Harvard doubted the Yankees' superiority.
"Definitely not," said Nathan A. Quiroz '02. "The 1998 San Francisco Giants were the best ever."
Others said they felt that "the best team ever" was an overly-effusive moniker.
"It's hard to compare any team from any sport to a team from 70 years ago," Arambula said.
But New Yorkers, for the most part, maintained their unfailing enthusiasm for their hometown team.
"I don't know [if they're the best team ever], but they're a lot of fun to watch," Olshan said. "Sure, they're the best team ever."
Olshan explained that the Yankees are like the Knicks in that New Yorkers love to support an underdog team.
"We have so much heart," she said. "We have that fighting spirit in us. Not only are the Yankees a great team, [but] it's that fighting spirit that gives not only the Yankees but [all] sports teams in New York that interesting dynamic."
Some people extended their pride in the Yankees even further.
"I know it means that New York is the greatest of all cities, and we are superior in all ways--culturally and athletically," said proud New Yorker Spencer W. Woolf `02. "And we're also smarter and better. It just proves a well-known fact."