Exposing the Red Sox "Nation".
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Seattle sports radio went out and interview some of the Red Sox fans (of which they made about 25% of the crowd!) during the series this week vs. the Mariners. Here's the audio.
"We are tired of Red Sox Nation ... so we sent KJR reporter Andy Bunker to streets outside Safeco to find out just where all these Red Sox 'fans' come from."
Part 1.
http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/SEATTLE-WA/KJR-AM/Mitch_080528_Bunker%20and%20Red%20Sox%20nation.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&MARKET=SEATTLE-WA&NG_FORMAT=sports&SITE_ID=645&STATION_ID=KJR-AM&PCAST_AUTHOR=Mitch_In_The_Morning&PCAST_CAT=Entertainment&PCAST_TITLE=Mitch_In_The_Morning_OnDemand
Part 2 will come later!
The M's have the worst record in baseball....we have to have something to make us happy!
Good series Sox fans!
Bah Bah Bah! So good! So Good!
"We are tired of Red Sox Nation ... so we sent KJR reporter Andy Bunker to streets outside Safeco to find out just where all these Red Sox 'fans' come from."
Part 1.
http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/SEATTLE-WA/KJR-AM/Mitch_080528_Bunker%20and%20Red%20Sox%20nation.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&MARKET=SEATTLE-WA&NG_FORMAT=sports&SITE_ID=645&STATION_ID=KJR-AM&PCAST_AUTHOR=Mitch_In_The_Morning&PCAST_CAT=Entertainment&PCAST_TITLE=Mitch_In_The_Morning_OnDemand
Part 2 will come later!
The M's have the worst record in baseball....we have to have something to make us happy!
Good series Sox fans!Bah Bah Bah! So good! So Good!
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Enjoy that now, with your team of overpriced average players. We'll be the ones enjoying the trophy at the end of the year.
You guys need a new GM -- one that doesn't load up the team with the Adrian Beltres and Richie Sexsons of the world.
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You're telling me....I've had to watch those guys over the past few years!
YES, we do need a new GM.
The Red sox win 2 World Series after many many years and are HATED?
I dont get it
SO many ppl were cheering them on in 04 and now the Sox and RS Nation are Hated?
Cracks me up!
oh and didnt you win both games by 1 run? Didnt our Pitcher leave hurt? I would call those GREAT Victorys
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
cool!! cant wait!
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
I feel the same way as the guy from Sommerville. I don't care for the pink hats or bandwagon fans.
But the real story really isn't the bandwagon fans. They show up everywhere, no matter who is winning.
And the story isn't about the radio guys idea that 90% of Sox fans are bogus and 10% are diehard.
The real story is that Boston is winning so they are the target. That is exactly what happens. Be it the Dallas Cowboys, or the LA Lakers, or the New England Patriots, everyone hates on whoever is on top.
To think otherwise is just stupid.
I will say as a long time Boston fan the 10% of die hard fans is larger than most fan bases of other teams at any time.
If Seattle won it all the entire "Seattle Nation" including their bandwagon would still be smaller than the 10% of sox die hards.
Not an insult, just a fact. Even when the Sox and Yankees suck, we still represent more in other stadiums around the country.
That is just a fact.
Great radio point.
Nothing worse than bandwagon fans.
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There's some logic!
I'd like to see what it would be like if we won it....but we suck! So all we have is calling out other teams.
It's funny cuz it's true!
what do you expect? When you act like a bunch of douchebags on the field, people aren't gonna like you, or have any respect for you.
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I just hate Boston fans who think becuase they now have won two World Series after not winning jack for 86 years theat they are Gods gift to baseball...its liek Dallas fans thinnking the Cowboys are "Americas Team" Its not boston people hate...its the Mass-hole fans we all hate
and for the record...in baseball one run wins the game...who cares how it happens???(our pitcher was hurt is just a lame excuse)when you suck as bad as Seattle.....they get up for that kind of stuff....cmon...being a Red Sox fan you should know that, right???? Its not liek you have been thew cream of the crop for 89 years! hahaha
-Reagan
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i get it! it's funny because AROD is a girl and wears purses!
I've flown out to SafeCo from Boston for a sox game.. it was a blast..
I think Bill Simmons is a big reason why most of America hates Boston teams. I like to read Sports Guy columns (he's a funny dude), but he more or less rips on everyone's favorite team sooner or later, so anger is redirected back at the Boston teams. I used to like the Celtics, but due to his ripping on Peyton Manning I would love to see them lose in dramatic fashion (although it would be very hard to top the Pats losing to Peyton's little brother and failing to achieve sports immortality ;-)
(I'm joking, of course. Except about the part about Sox, Cubs, and Yanks fans being the worst...and the part about being blessed to be a Cardinals fan)
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thats funny!!! I really like the Cards...and being an Astros fan thats hard to say...but I really love the way they play the game....and their fans are awesome and respectful. Im reminded of goin to Busch for the NLCS against the Astros, and seeing Cardinals fans applaud guys like Craig Biggio and Roy Oswalt....even though they are the enemy.
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Mexico=1, Colombia=1
by Gerry Callahan
Friday, November 15, 2002
To: Mommy.
From: Your loser son, the Vice President of the Oakland Raider fan club.
Re: Sunday night's game.
First, let me just say something that is long overdue: You are a wonderful mother. You have been so nice to me for more than 40 years and I want you to know that I appreciate all the little things you do: make my bed; bake me peanut butter cookies; wash and iron my Ted Hendricks jersey; tuck me in at night.
I mean it when I say I don't care if I ever meet a girl. I'm perfectly content living in your basement, playing video games, polishing my Raiders helmet nightly, and watching ``Becker'' with you and Dad every Sunday night. Truly, it's one of the highlights of my sad, empty life, and I know you enjoy it, too. That's why it's not easy for me to ask a very special favor of you this week. I need to borrow the Buick, Mom. Please, please, please! There's a big, big Raiders game Sunday night, and my friends from the fan club are counting on me.
I'm just warning you now, Mommy: I'm painting my face; I'm borrowing our poodle's spiked collar and I'm staying out past curfew. If that's OK with you, I mean. You have to understand that this week is special in the lives of pathetic Raiders fans like me: The New England Patriots are coming to town, and we owe those guys, big time. We've got a score to settle.
You probably don't remember because you and Dad were sleeping on the couch, but last year we got robbed. We got screwed. We got ripped off. We went to New England for a playoff game, and they literally stole away our ticket to the Super Bowl. I cried so much that night I almost woke you.
It has been 10 months since the infamous snow job in Foxboro, and at our meetings every week we bat around the same nagging questions: How does Al Davis manage to stay so young-looking? How can we get Sebastian Janikowski to slip us the date-rape drug? And how badly are we going to beat those lucky bums from New England when we get them in the Black Hole?
It just wasn't right, Momma. All the citizens of Raider Nation are still angry about the so-called tuck rule - not the same as the one in our house where you promise to tuck me in if I brush properly - and one of the oldest members of our fan club put it best. He's a nice old man named Ben Dreith and he said it doesn't matter what the rules say. That stupid ref Walt Coleman should have called it a fumble because, well, you know, it looked like a fumble, didn't it?
I know you think my obsession with the Silver and Black is just something to do between Star Trek conventions, but it's much more than that. It's my chance to dress like some of my heroes in Dungeons and Dragons and pretend I'm a bad-***. It's like being in a motorcycle gang, without having to ask your permission to ride a motorcycle. I know you'd never say yes to that. Put it this way: If I had a life, the Raiders would be my life. That's why I got the skull and crossbones temporarily tattooed on the doughy underside of my love handle.
You may not believe it, Mommy, but most people actually buy my act: They see me wearing my funny helmet, and they actually think I'm not a complete nerd. I mean, it's amazing: We're basically the same guys who made up the audio-visual club in high school, but now we dress like the Village People and no one messes with us! Can you believe it? Sometimes I wear the same Darth Vader costume that I wore while waiting in line for 12 hours on the opening night of Phantom Menace. The only difference is the little kids in the neighborhood don't beat me up. They think I'm cool!
Do you remember the time we saw William Shatner at the airport and he treated me like dirt? Well, my guy Sea Bass doesn't do that. No way. If I see Sebastian out at one of the local restaurants, all I have to do is buy him a couple dozen drinks, help him steer the key into the ignition of his car, and he treats me like one of his old buddies. What a guy. And how about the new guy? All I did was fill one lousy prescription for Bill Romanowski, and Romo shook my hand, looked me in the eye, and said, ``Thanks, loser.'' I don't know how he knew my nickname, but it was a nice touch.
And this might be hard to believe, but some people in the media think we actually give our team an edge on the field. They put the TV camera on us, we make scary faces, and they say we intimidate the opposing teams. It's almost as if they're expecting us to jump out of the stands like those lunatics at Comiskey Park and beat up a coach or something. Maybe I'll do that this weekend. Maybe I'll run down on the sideline and slap around that guy Pepper Johnson.
I'm like all the crazies from Raider Nation, Mom: I'm bad; I'm mad and I'm capable of anything. As long as you lend me your car for this one big night, I'll do whatever you ask. I'll clean my room, I'll get a job, I'll even try to stop polishing my Raiders helmet so often. It won't be easy, but I'll do anything for my Raiders.
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Mexico=1, Colombia=1
That's weird. I'm a Cardinals fan whose second favorite team is the Astros. Mostly because I remember Darryl Kile (RIP DK57), Bagwell, and Biggio playing growing up, and I really respect the way they all played the game.
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I think that's more the point of it. It's not making fun of the Red Sox or it's true fan base (new and old). The Red Sox are a great team. But the Pink Hats....I'm not so sure about.
you are preaching to the choir about that.
funny little segment.
montana really needs to be welcomed into Mariner 'nation'.
the betty ford joke made me laugh. a lot.
i never understood selling opposing team gear at the ballpark. if you're a fan, you should have come prepared.
5 years ago: there were nowhere near as many Red Sox fans at M's games as there are now and they certainly weren't as obnoxious. i used to get along with many of them due to our shared hatred of the Yankees. in 5 more years maybe we'll see a rise in Rays nation at the park?
either way, welcome to the ballpark.
we understand the bandwagon as post-'95 M's fans are abundant, but at least they're geographically loyal.
THATS baseball IMO...play the game the way it should be played....don't make excuses....and the fans will love you for it
BTW, the wife and I are going to Baltimore this weekend to see the Sox play the O's. The in-laws are from Maryland and got us tickets.
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looks like it might be the year for a cubs vs. white sox world series anyway... so we'll see just how bad chicago fans can be
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