As if the New York Yankees could get even less popular in Boston.
Before facing off against the Red Sox in Game 1 of the American League Division Series Friday night at Fenway Park, the Yankees found themselves the target of heated protests Friday. And it had nothing to do with the team’s historic on-field rivalry with the hometown team.
These particular “Yankees Suck” chants came after the team’s players walked through the picket line of striking hotel workers to get into the Ritz-Carlton they’re staying at in downtown Boston. Bring Lang, the president of Unite Here Local 26, which represents the striking Boston hotel workers, called the Yankees, members of their own MLB players’ union, “scabs.