Red Sox fans crying about Roman Anthony's MLB debut proves they're Yankees fans but worse

Count me among those who are thrilled about Roman Anthony being called up to the big leagues. Finally, after swearing to be satisfied if they could win just one title for their beloved grandparents, then winning three more and foaming at the mouth looking for another, corrupted Red Sox fans thankfully have a reason to smile.

It's been too long — 6.5 full years since their 108-victory World Series-winning season, in fact. They're basically the Bob Nutting Pirates.

Boston fans hate facing this particular reality. They love to parse through the payroll decimals and claim that they're completely different from Yankee fans because $241 million is a totally different stratosphere than $223 million, bro. "You buy championships! We rank directly behind you in payroll but we, uh, don't!"

But the bottom line is: Sox fans and Yankee fans have the same exact entitled expectations. Both fan bases scream about how droughts that other cities would kill for are "totally unacceptable here" (the implication being, of course, that it's fine for losers to experience loss, but not born winners like us human hardhats over in Boston).

The difference? Yankee fans readily acknowledge it. They know their "World Series or Bust" aspirations are a little ridiculous — but they don't care. There's a reason they get roasted with "27 rings!". It was common parlance for a while.

Boston fans? The self-awareness meter is 10,000 feet below Fenway Park. Why they think they're perceived as a cute lil' guys, we'll never know. But they're us. They. Are. Us.

And they proved it once again with their reaction to Anthony not quite hitting the ground running in his MLB debut. He went 0-for-4 with an RBI groundout, a 111 MPH line shot off the pitcher, and a misplay in right field that led to one run of the two-run deficit they wrapped the game with in extras. It went ... okay.

For weeks, Boston fandom — and WEEI, specifically — was fueled by anguished calls asking what was taking so long to promote Anthony. And after one (ONE!) game of getting exactly what they begged for, then finding it to be imperfect, guess what? "You can make the case they screwed up the debuts" of the entire Big Three, including Kristian Campbell and Marcelo Mayer. Just ... chef's kiss impatience and grievance culture right there.

Red Sox call up Roman Anthony, fans sound like whiny Yankees fan stereotypes afterward

"Call up Roman Anthony! Call up Roman ANTHONY! CALL UP RoMAN ANTHONY!!!!"

"No, not like that!! What are you doing?!"

Calling up a prized prospect after weeks of fans begging, only for the fans to blast the team anyway because the player's debut was imperfect. Why would Yankees fans do this?

It's alright, Boston fans. Adjusting to your new post-2004 reality of being the big dog with the expectation of perfection is hard. You should ... you should probably be further along by now, especially after your experience with the Celtics and Patriots, but ... fine, we'll acknowledge it's odd for the lovable losers to become the completely unlovable What Have You Done For Me Latelies. It's fandom whiplash no doubt.

But the next time you find yourselves furious about how stereotypical Yankees fans (who you've invented in your mind) treat their players and execs, just remember you wasted two months telling the Red Sox they needed to call up their top prospects ASAP, then complained after it happened that they rushed it.