It takes a lot for fans in the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry to switch allegiances. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio found himself in such a predicament on Friday.
De Blasio spoke on his appreciation for Yankee Stadium becoming a mass COVID-19 vaccination site on Friday, saying it was “a different kind of opening day.”
“This is about protecting people who need the most protection because the Bronx is one of the places that bore the brunt of this crisis of the coronavirus” de Blasio said. “The Bronx has suffered.”
The opening of the Yankee Stadium vaccination site caused de Blasio to make a brief change in baseball fandom.