Dan Shaughnessy-- 33 Reasons Red Sox fans are happier to face Indians

• 13 of the 33 Reasons Shaughnessy noted:

"No "Enter Sandman" when the bullpen door swings open in the ninth.

No T-shirts with vile messages for Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.

No New York tabloids, no Mike & Mad Dog, no John Sterling, no "New York, New York" blaring 100 times at the end of games in Yankee Stadium.

No USAir flight No. 1918 from LaGuardia.

No "No, No, Nanette" (would that be a triple negative?).

Coco Crisp can show the Tribe that they made a mistake letting him go.

It's impossible to make those Harvard-Yale, Athens-Sparta analogies in any series that includes Cleveland.

Fox won't bombard us with video of Jason Varitek smashing his mitt into the face of A-Rod and Pedro Martínez shucking Don Zimmer to the ground.

Traveling legions of Red Sox Nation will be safer in the Jake than in Yankee Stadium.

No references to Evil Empire, Bambino, Harry Frazee, Bucky Dent, or Aaron Boone.

Bob Feller throws out the first pitch instead of Reggie Jackson.

No awkward conflict of interest for The New York Times. The corporation (which owns the Globe and 17 percent of the Red Sox) can openly root for the Sox against Cleveland.

No YES (Network)."