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cuyler41cuyler41 Posts: 387
edited May 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
This cracks me up !

http://www.maxim.com/Whythesportsworldhatesboston/articles/19555.aspx

On the bright side, you have to be really good to be hated by so many :)
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    If the city's teams were on the bottm this wouldn't be an issue.

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  • pjhawkspjhawks Posts: 12,593
    that pretty much sums it up.
  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    nail on the head
    If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
  • thunderDANthunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    for as much hype as this gets they have really only won one championship, Detroit can actually overtake Boston this year with their 2 good teams (Pistons and Red Wings) and still have 2 not so good teams (Tigers and Lions). There will be no hype like there was for Boston though
  • rearviewmirorrearviewmiror Posts: 894
    I get the point, but that is wild to the point of absurdity. Picking on 2 drunk guys, a punk band, and sports talk radio listeners is just fish in a Barell.

    The guy glosses over a million points and doesn't back up many of his own. Good feel good article fopr Boston haters, but you alreqady knew you hated us right?
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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    thunderDAN wrote:
    for as much hype as this gets they have really only won one championship, Detroit can actually overtake Boston this year with their 2 good teams (Pistons and Red Wings) and still have 2 not so good teams (Tigers and Lions). There will be no hype like there was for Boston though
    When Cleveland teams start winning some rings then you can say something about Boston. ;)

    BTW, The 3 Super Bowl rings still counts! :p
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  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    i was in montreal two summers ago and all i hear is about 6 guys wearing red sox gear shouting "let's go red sox" down the streets ... yeah - that's a lovable attribute ... :rolleyes:

    anyhoo - boston is a rival city for mine ... as much as i loathe them to win - you can't deny the success as a sports city ...
  • pjhawkspjhawks Posts: 12,593
    polaris wrote:
    i was in montreal two summers ago and all i hear is about 6 guys wearing red sox gear shouting "let's go red sox" down the streets ... yeah - that's a lovable attribute ... :rolleyes:

    anyhoo - boston is a rival city for mine ... as much as i loathe them to win - you can't deny the success as a sports city ...


    success even if they cheated for 3 of their championships?
  • Stone Is GodStone Is God Posts: 1,331
    I don't think it's the Red Sox or the Celtics that have turned the fans around here arrogant. That lies with the Pats. The Pats had already cashed in 2 and were on their way to a 3rd when the Sox cashed it in back in 04. Sox fans have learned to deal with the ups and downs knowing that it'll even out. Pats fans are a very different breed. They really feel that every loss is an act of God.

    I was sitting around talking to a couple of Pats fans the other day and they still are saying, "well is Samuel could catch a ball we would have won." Well he didn't and they lost. That's what happens. Not every bounce can go your way.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    pjhawks wrote:
    success even if they cheated for 3 of their championships?

    sports is all about cheating ... baseball is the worst for it ... but as far as the patriots go - no comment ... :p
  • kh65kh65 Posts: 946
    polaris wrote:
    i was in montreal two summers ago and all i hear is about 6 guys wearing red sox gear shouting "let's go red sox" down the streets ... yeah - that's a lovable attribute ... :rolleyes:

    anyhoo - boston is a rival city for mine ... as much as i loathe them to win - you can't deny the success as a sports city ...

    This is what I was going to point out. Our fans are, shall we say, "passionate".
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  • smithnicsmithnic Posts: 1,563
    kh65 wrote:
    This is what I was going to point out. Our fans are, shall we say, "passionate".


    I would say "band-wagon jumpers"

    Did you see all these Red Sox nation BS before they won in 2004? Could any of them name all the numbers retired in their haloed Fenway Park? And the Celtics?? HA!! That freaking cracks me up! Every band-wagon jumper fan of the suddenly good Celtics is so full of crap. Were you a fan when they lost 18 in a row?
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  • DocChicagoDocChicago Posts: 653
    smithnic wrote:
    I would say "band-wagon jumpers"

    Did you see all these Red Sox nation BS before they won in 2004? Could any of them name all the numbers retired in their haloed Fenway Park? And the Celtics?? HA!! That freaking cracks me up! Every band-wagon jumper fan of the suddenly good Celtics is so full of crap. Were you a fan when they lost 18 in a row?
    You're totally right about the Celtics bandwagon jumping. They were horrible (with the exception of the playoff run in 2002). I wouldn't pay to see that. I admit it.

    But you're wrong about the Sox fanbase. Even though RS Nation grew in 2004, that fanbase had been swelling since they got Pedro in the late 90s. It didn't take the championship for the Sox to be popular.
    It is time to admit that we used to rock like hurricanes. It is time to run for the hills and go round and round. It is time for us to shout at the devil. We've got the right to choose it, there ain't no way we'll lose it, and we're not gonna take it anymore.
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    smithnic wrote:
    I would say "band-wagon jumpers"

    Did you see all these Red Sox nation BS before they won in 2004? Could any of them name all the numbers retired in their haloed Fenway Park? And the Celtics?? HA!! That freaking cracks me up! Every band-wagon jumper fan of the suddenly good Celtics is so full of crap. Were you a fan when they lost 18 in a row?

    I've been a city of Boston fan since 1972, in fact I was so use to losing by the lovable Patriots (Grogan, Vataha, John *Hog* Hannah, Sam *The Bam* Cunningham) and Red Sox that sort of just liked or got use to it back then.

    Now I do see a ton of bandwagoners as you call it but I loved the Briuns/Celtics whether they won or not. Even more so when they were losers cause nobody paid them ANY attention then. I tried to give them as much as I could unlike some who thought of them as the stuff you try to scrape off the bottom of your shoe.

    If they're from Boston I'm rooting for em especially after you've met and chatted with a man like Arnold *Red* Auerbach.

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  • Stone Is GodStone Is God Posts: 1,331
    smithnic wrote:
    I would say "band-wagon jumpers"

    Did you see all these Red Sox nation BS before they won in 2004? Could any of them name all the numbers retired in their haloed Fenway Park? And the Celtics?? HA!! That freaking cracks me up! Every band-wagon jumper fan of the suddenly good Celtics is so full of crap. Were you a fan when they lost 18 in a row?

    The Red Sox owners have used the momentum of the 2004 WS to appeal to the "Pink Hats" i.e. women. Women who will spend a lot of money.

    Put it this way, I love the Sox but I will not go to Fenway because of the price of everything and the fact that my 6 foot 9 body will not fit into the seats.

    I went to a game a few weeks back and who got me the tickets.....my girlfriend. I'd say that the stadium was about 40-45% female. I can remember when it was about 80-20 male.

    The owners of the Red Sox must look into every avenue to generate revenue for the ball club. With the whole Red Sox nation thing they're just doing what they should be doing. It just happened to coincide with 2 titles in 4 years.

    Also Fenway did sell out, more often than not, before the whole Red Sox nation thing.

    No matter how many Super Bowls the Pats win the Sox will always be #1 up here.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    smithnic wrote:
    I would say "band-wagon jumpers"

    Did you see all these Red Sox nation BS before they won in 2004? Could any of them name all the numbers retired in their haloed Fenway Park? And the Celtics?? HA!! That freaking cracks me up! Every band-wagon jumper fan of the suddenly good Celtics is so full of crap. Were you a fan when they lost 18 in a row?

    There is always going to be band wagon jumpers, and when the successful team goes through a rough patch, it's those band wagon jumpers that complain the loudest.

    I think Boston has so many of these wagon jumpers right now because of being a large market, and fulfilling the need many sports fans love-winning and being the underdog.
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  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    "That's why the Red Sox will never win the World Series" -- Christian Shepherd
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    AmentsChick wrote:
    "That's why the Red Sox will never win the World Series" -- Christian Shepherd

    Say What! Explain?

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Stone Is God wrote:
    The Red Sox owners have used the momentum of the 2004 WS to appeal to the "Pink Hats" i.e. women. Women who will spend a lot of money.

    Put it this way, I love the Sox but I will not go to Fenway because of the price of everything and the fact that my 6 foot 9 body will not fit into the seats.

    I went to a game a few weeks back and who got me the tickets.....my girlfriend. I'd say that the stadium was about 40-45% female. I can remember when it was about 80-20 male.

    The owners of the Red Sox must look into every avenue to generate revenue for the ball club. With the whole Red Sox nation thing they're just doing what they should be doing. It just happened to coincide with 2 titles in 4 years.

    Also Fenway did sell out, more often than not, before the whole Red Sox nation thing.

    No matter how many Super Bowls the Pats win the Sox will always be #1 up here.

    They could win 10 SB's and football being the #1 sport the Red Sox will always be #1 in New England period.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    g under p wrote:
    Say What! Explain?

    Peace

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  • thossythossy Posts: 59
    Been a season ticket holder at fenway since i got out of school in 2000, you want an easy way to tell if a sox fan is bandwagon or not, ask them what year they started playing Sweet Caroline in the 8th, if they say anything other than 2003 they are on the bandwagon. Ah the good ol days when they didnt play that song at that time and that stupid Tessie as well.

    Nothing drives me more crazy than the people that want to do the wave when it's a close game in an important situation.

    I agree on the Red Sox Nation stuff as well, I used to use the term back in the day but once the Red Sox actually ran with it and started selling it, that name now turns my stomach. Crazy me, i thought watching the games was proof that i was a fan, didn't need a stupid ID card.

    I will give these owners a lot of credit though, they are trying to crank out as much $$$ as they can from the 2nd smallest stadium in baseball. Also when any team wins the bandwagon usually follows, it was the same when the Yankees were winning in the 90's, same with the Bulls of the 90's as well. It's just goes with the territory. It's like when you deal with the devil to you live forever he puts you in a coma.

    one last funny story in December of 04 I was at the gym and this guy actually complained and said "the red sox will never win unless they start playing small ball" to which I couldnt help but respond "didn't they just win the world series?"
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  • Stone Is GodStone Is God Posts: 1,331
    thossy wrote:
    Been a season ticket holder at fenway since i got out of school in 2000, you want an easy way to tell if a sox fan is bandwagon or not, ask them what year they started playing Sweet Caroline in the 8th, if they say anything other than 2003 they are on the bandwagon. Ah the good ol days when they didnt play that song at that time and that stupid Tessie as well.

    Nothing drives me more crazy than the people that want to do the wave when it's a close game in an important situation.

    I agree on the Red Sox Nation stuff as well, I used to use the term back in the day but once the Red Sox actually ran with it and started selling it, that name now turns my stomach. Crazy me, i thought watching the games was proof that i was a fan, didn't need a stupid ID card.

    I will give these owners a lot of credit though, they are trying to crank out as much $$$ as they can from the 2nd smallest stadium in baseball. Also when any team wins the bandwagon usually follows, it was the same when the Yankees were winning in the 90's, same with the Bulls of the 90's as well. It's just goes with the territory. It's like when you deal with the devil to you live forever he puts you in a coma.

    one last funny story in December of 04 I was at the gym and this guy actually complained and said "the red sox will never win unless they start playing small ball" to which I couldnt help but respond "didn't they just win the world series?"

    Two words to explain it all: Fever Pitch

    Jimmy Fallon as a Red Sox fan makes me want to gauge my eyes out.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    thossy wrote:
    Been a season ticket holder at fenway since i got out of school in 2000, you want an easy way to tell if a sox fan is bandwagon or not, ask them what year they started playing Sweet Caroline in the 8th, if they say anything other than 2003 they are on the bandwagon. Ah the good ol days when they didnt play that song at that time and that stupid Tessie as well.

    Nothing drives me more crazy than the people that want to do the wave when it's a close game in an important situation.

    I agree on the Red Sox Nation stuff as well, I used to use the term back in the day but once the Red Sox actually ran with it and started selling it, that name now turns my stomach. Crazy me, i thought watching the games was proof that i was a fan, didn't need a stupid ID card.

    I will give these owners a lot of credit though, they are trying to crank out as much $$$ as they can from the 2nd smallest stadium in baseball. Also when any team wins the bandwagon usually follows, it was the same when the Yankees were winning in the 90's, same with the Bulls of the 90's as well. It's just goes with the territory. It's like when you deal with the devil to you live forever he puts you in a coma.

    one last funny story in December of 04 I was at the gym and this guy actually complained and said "the red sox will never win unless they start playing small ball" to which I couldnt help but respond "didn't they just win the world series?"

    Most long time fans don't buy into this RS stuff, I certainly don't. However it is a great marketing tool to bring as many dollars apossible to keep this payroll afloat.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • thossythossy Posts: 59
    Stone Is God wrote:
    Two words to explain it all: Fever Pitch

    Jimmy Fallon as a Red Sox fan makes me want to gauge my eyes out.


    actually Jimmy Fallon getting to be on the field after the Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years makes me want to drive my car into a wall.
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  • Stone Is GodStone Is God Posts: 1,331
    thossy wrote:
    actually Jimmy Fallon getting to be on the field after the Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years makes me want to drive my car into a wall.

    and then have the gas tank explode to finish it off.

    I really didn't want to see that after they won. I think everyone I was with asked what the fuck they were doing there.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • brainofjbbrainofjb Boston Posts: 381
    smithnic wrote:
    I would say "band-wagon jumpers"

    Did you see all these Red Sox nation BS before they won in 2004? Could any of them name all the numbers retired in their haloed Fenway Park? And the Celtics?? HA!! That freaking cracks me up! Every band-wagon jumper fan of the suddenly good Celtics is so full of crap. Were you a fan when they lost 18 in a row?


    Not all Boston Fans are the same

    I can say that I have been a Celts fan since I was a kid.
    I went to more games when they sucked. I cant get tickets now becuz of some of the "jumpers" and it is sad because this season means so much to me.
    I want this championship so bad!
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  • brainofjbbrainofjb Boston Posts: 381
    just to add one more thing

    Funny how things work...
    I could have went to tonights game but I sprained my ankle on Saturday and have to walk with Crutches.
    The seats were in the balcony.. FIGURES..

    O WELL
    GO CELTS!!!
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  • gregkitefangregkitefan Posts: 1,116
    I will admit that the Pats are the most hated team in sports.

    The Yankees are the still the most hated team in baseball.

    Alex Rodriguez.
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