You Yankee fans just don’t get it do you? The responses to my commentary (“Yankee fans show rich kid immaturity,” Oct. 29) do no more than demonstrate the lack of skill that Brian and Maria have in reading between the lines.

I could not agree more with Brian and Maria that the character of any person that flips over a car or starts a fight due to the outcome of a game is questionable, regardless of the team they support. What I fail to see is, what part of my commentary they seem to think condones such behavior in the first place? My commentary was a condemnation of egregious disrespect, not idiocy. What the Yankee fans did that night, celebrating obnoxiously and, yes, destructively in the streets was idiotic. It is a form of idiocy that, in some respects, might have been met with leniency had it taken place in New York. What drew the ire of so many Sox fans (and inspired my commentary) was the fact that they behaved like this in the streets of BOSTON. In all my experience in sports, I have never seen or heard of the victor’s fans emptying out onto the loser’s home turf to celebrate and revel amongst the broken-hearted. I have been to Yankee Stadium for a Sox game, and when Boston won, I kept my celebration largely to myself, not out of fear of the Yankee faithful surrounding me, but out of respect for them. Having denied us the same respect, I no longer find Larry Lucchino’s characterization of the Yankees as “the Evil Empire” so far-fetched after all.

But all is well, now that the last laugh is ours. Go figure, “Evil” was no match for a 23-year-old with 17 career wins.

— Andy Silva is a junior civil engineering major.