Some (Though Not Many) Sox Fans are (Somewhat) Intelligent

Now this is a Red Sox fan I can respect.

"What we have with the Red Sox and Yankees now is manufactured fan nonsense. Hate to tell you, but no one in uniform hates anyone in the current Yankees-Red Sox state of affairs. The players can't believe what they hear and what goes on in the stands, or on the streets. They cannot relate to any of it.
Now if this is a strict DNA thing, there's no way I'm ever going to connect. Sorry. And it may be. My own born-and-bred New England daughter hates the Yankees. I don't. I think they're a darn fine division rival."

I think I would add, however, that the "manufactured fan nonsense" is basically manufactured SOX fan nonsense. Seriously, they need to get over it. Yankee fans don't care how the Sox do (except for me, since I'm left with no choice cause I live in this stupid, however wonderful, city) as long as they beat them.

P.S. Yanks, I've got 5 bucks on you not getting swept this weekend. Please don't let me down tomorrow. Thanks.

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/04/20/start_of_something_too_big/

Jealous, much? x100000

Typical.

"Yankees fans are unbelievable. Their owner spends more than any owner in any U.S. sport, the team wins the obligatory World Series every now and then, and Yankees fans act as if the game was invented in the Bronx. It wasn't. It was just financed there, starting with the December day in 1919 when the Yankees bought the Babe.
Yankees fans are ingrates and boors, and most of the time that's fine with me. Buy your ticket, drink your beer and stay up there in New York, near Mike Freeman's house and way the hell away from me. But when Yankees fans bring their boorishness to bear on one of the most complete players any of us will ever see, OK, now I've got a problem...
You want to see some real fans? Boston has real fans. Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez is a complete buffoon -- selfish, flighty, useless without a bat in his hands -- but Boston fans give him unconditional love. Why? Because he plays for Boston. It's not that hard, Bronx Boors."

http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10132892/1

Love for Big Papi

Despite the fact that he plays for the Sox, I do enjoy David Ortiz.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnShow?showID=SRDA

Again...seriously?

I usually refrain from making cracks about the Red Sox team, as I generally find them to be OK (except for Shilling). However, today's Opening Day ceremonies (which my roommate subjected me to while I was trying to eat my dinner) were so ridiculous that I can't help myself.

Let me set the stage: they are honoring the '67 Red Sox, because apparently they were so awesome they won the pennant for the first time in a bazillion years (the pennant, of course, being the highest honor most Sox fans can ever hope for). Some clever person decided to call it the "Year of Impossible Dreams."

So how should we honor players from that year, such as Carl Yastremski?

Bring out Robert Goulet. And have him sing the song from 'Man of la Mancha.'

Seriously.

Son of a Bitch!

The game's on freakin' ESPN! I could have been watching it on TV all this time! And because I came in my room, the roommate now has control of the remote and is polluting the air with 'Dancing With the Stars.'




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Redemption (Somewhat)

So I can't listen to the games on my radio because my radio sucks, and all the internet broadcasts of stations that carry the games have been blacked out (thank you, MLB). I am bitching and moaning about this tonight when BOOM, my roommate appears and says "oh, I have an MLB account, I think I can listen to games." I immediately assume this is said just to rub it in my face that I CAN'T listen to any games, but no! She's suddenly on my computer, signing in and bringing up the game! Holy cow! As I comment about how I am far too cheap to pay for something like an online broadcast of a game I should be able to listen to for free, she mentions that it's part of her "Red Sox Nation" membership. Great. At least it's good for something.

...Seriously???

"You love your kids, you love your family and you love your Boston Red Sox! Now you can combine them all with this exciting new Team Baby Entertainment DVD. Featuring Officially Licensed footage of the superstars of The Boston Red Sox, Wally the mascot & legendary Fenway Park along with a grand slam view of the sights, sounds, traditions & colors of The Boston Red Sox, RED SOX BABY combines all the great things you love about the team — show stopping players, amazing homeruns, blazing fast pitches, team mascot, traditions and stadium — with all the things you want your young fans to learn — numbers, letters, shapes, colors, & more. Narrated by proud Red Sox Nation members Ben Affleck & featuring original Team Baby Entertainment music, RED SOX BABY is the ideal way to introduce your love of The Boston Red Sox to the team's youngest fans."

Good lord.

And so it begins...

Ahh Opening Day. What baseball fans look forward to all winter. Of course, our boys won today. But that's expected; they've won their last 9 home openers. Did I get to watch it though? No, of course not. I had to work. But wait! I have TiVo! I can come home at 4pm and pretend it's just now starting. Except for one little thing: I live with a Sox fan. And by some sort of strange "accident" my Tivo didn't tape the Yankee game, even though I set it to do so over a week ago. Instead, it taped the Sox game, which most definitely was not programmed in last week and just happened to overlap with the Yanks' game. Strange how those things work.

Anyway. This off-season has had its share of oh-my-god-Red-Sox-fans-are-ridiculous moments, but nothing worth blogging about. Until yesterday. My sister was up visiting from NYC, and we went to an ice skating show over at Harvard (don't ask). There was one part of the show where people were skating around in Red Sox uniforms. Suddenly, the Darth Vader music from Star Wars begins to play and who skates out? People in Yankees uniforms! The audience boos. My sister, who had never experienced the madness first hand, turns to me and says, "What the hell? Yankee fans would NEVER do that in New York!" Oh my darling sister, you have no idea.

I'll close out my opening day musings with a little story my father told me. He works as a bartender in CT and last week someone was complaining about the Sox spring training game not being on the TV. Finally, someone shouts out, "Aw, let him watch the game now. It'll make up for the fact that he won't be able to watch them in October."

Go Yankees.

EDIT: I always have had a lot of respect for the folks over at Boston Dirt Dogs--they are obsessive and ridiculous but they know and acknowledge it and I am ok with that. But I saw their 'headlines' today after the Sox *ahem* lost and just had to laugh at the last one:

"Sox Back in Third Place"