A Note to the Boston Red Sox

[ChefChiTown]

Far as the fair weather bullshit goes you can suck a dick. I've been a Red Sox fan since the Don Baylor,Dwight Evans,and Jim Rice days. I love how the fair weather card comes out soon as somebody supports a team.

You're 28 years old, according to the information underneath your avatar. Oh, and as for your "fair weather fan" status, let me just say this...

You mentioned being a fan since the Don Baylor/Dwight Evans/Jim Rice days (I don't believe you)...

Don Baylor - Played a mere 1 1/2 seasons with the Red Sox. Final season with the Red Sox was in 1987. You were only 6 or 7 years old at the time.

Dwight Evans - Final season with the Red Sox was in 1990. I might, MIIIIIIIIIIIGHT give you credit for being a "fan" at that point, considering you were a whole 9 or 10 years old.

Jim Rice - Final season with the Red Sox was in 1989. You were only 8 or 9 years old.

I can name names from my favorite team all day too, but that doesn't mean I was a true fan back when they played.

I'm 26 years old (soon to be 27 on Halloween) and my favorite team is the Chicago White Sox. Carlton Fisk, Eddie Collins, Joe Jackson, Pants Rowland, Luke Appling, Ray Schalk...

Look at me everyone!!! I've been a fan of the Chicago White Sox even before my conception!!! I'm such a true fan, YEEEEEEAH!!!

Let me ask you this...

If you are a true, TRUE, Red Sox fan...what comes to your mind when I mention the #27?

 

[Galactic]

I bet that's the same exact thing little kids say to you when you show up at the park with promises of candy and stories.

Only if I show up with no candy, and just stories.

They really just want the candy.

Ass master.

 

[Galactic]

I can't see a salary cap making a difference, the Red Sox train their own players through their own schools, instead of buying in big names or grabbing up and comers, which is what could be argued in the case of the Rays (whatever happened to the Devil? Poor chap gets the worst press.......).

Never mind, the Cubbies will have even more fans next year, and in sixty or seventy years so will the Rockies. :1orglaugh :wave2:

Touche. But in all honesty, we have an awesome fan base here in Colorado. Every sport does well here as far as fans.

Rockies fans are getting frustrated because it seems as though the ownership is willing to change NOTHING in the way they conduct the business of the team, and improving for the next year, or next few. We will spend crazy amounts of money on one guy, maybe two, and hope they carry the team.

So what they have been saying lately is they will build a team from the farm system, from the ground up if you will, grow the talent, cheaply, hang on to them, and hopefully contend that way.

No one here really believed it would work. And then last year happened. And yes, it was a blown call in the playoff game. My brother and I were at that game, and yes, he never, well, whatever.....

My point being, say what you will, as others here have referred to them as flash in the pan, lucky, etc., and while I will admit there is a lot of truth in that, we did go on an amazing fuckin' run. Like it or not, for a while there, we excelled in every single aspect of the game. We were the Cinderella story, the kids that came from nowhere, and were poised on the brink of being immortalized in the baseball cannon.

Sorry, that ran on a little long, but my overall point being, my friend across the pond, is if we have more fans in the next 60 or 70 years, we're going to need a whole lot more room.

 

[HeyFellas]

I seem to be out of my depth here, as you are all die hard team fans, and I'm just a baseball fan who likes the team that happens to be on Sunday Night Baseball, which is pretty much the only feature we get over here. But I'll stick by my statement, a salary cap won't make a difference, like it has not done in many other sports.

And I wouldn't call myself a fair-weather fan, as I've rooted for the Cubbies for the last few years too, likewise the Maple Leafs and Packers, not too many wins in any of them. :wave2:

 

[Yankeefan21325]

I seem to be out of my depth here, as you are all die hard team fans, and I'm just a baseball fan who likes the team that happens to be on Sunday Night Baseball, which is pretty much the only feature we get over here. But I'll stick by my statement, a salary cap won't make a difference, like it has not done in many other sports.

And I wouldn't call myself a fair-weather fan, as I've rooted for the Cubbies for the last few years too, likewise the Maple Leafs and Packers, not too many wins in any of them. :wave2:

You do realise that the Packers made the NFC championship game last year, and almost the Superbowl, correct? Not to mention that throughout the summer ESPN had Boston on Sunday night baseball roughly 3 out of every 6 weeks.

 

[Galactic]

I seem to be out of my depth here, as you are all die hard team fans, and I'm just a baseball fan who likes the team that happens to be on Sunday Night Baseball, which is pretty much the only feature we get over here. But I'll stick by my statement, a salary cap won't make a difference, like it has not done in many other sports.

And I wouldn't call myself a fair-weather fan, as I've rooted for the Cubbies for the last few years too, likewise the Maple Leafs and Packers, not too many wins in any of them. :wave2:

Hey man, just glad to hear there are baseball fans over there too.....it's the greatest game.


Except for Boston.

 

[BOOTSY]

The good news is that I am also a die-hard Rays fan and have been following them since their inception. I was at the Trop when they beat the Twins to clinch their first playoff spot and was also at Game 1.

Yeah, our fans may be a little odd with the cowbells and mohawks, but at least we have an identity.
QUOTE]

Rays fans have an identity alright...all 4 of them. COME ON! You guys were in a pennant race and couldn't even fill the stadium against the Yankees and filled the last series with the sox because there were 17,000 Sox fans there.
I knew it wouldn't take long for all the "IVE-BEEN-A-RAYS-FAN-ALL-ALONG" johnny come latelys to hit the forums.

Red Sox in 4 or 5
:thefinger

 

[bodie54]

Greetings, HeyFellas.

Good to hear from a British baseball fan :thumbsup:

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

Go Red Sox!

 

[Dean Henneberg]

Damn it. Why couldn't the Cubs have won it all this year?

:rofl:

 

[Galactic]

:rofl:

Laugh all you want, it will happen someday. Someday. Hopefully. Sooner, rather than later.

Damn it.

 

[Dean Henneberg]

Laugh all you want, it will happen someday. Someday. Hopefully. Sooner, rather than later.

Damn it.

Even Bill Murray was asking questions last night on the SNL special.

 

[HeyFellas]

Hey man, just glad to hear there are baseball fans over there too.....it's the greatest game.

Greetings, HeyFellas.

Good to hear from a British baseball fan :thumbsup:

:hatsoff: :thumbsup: :wave2:

 

[Galactic]

Even Bill Murray was asking questions last night on the SNL special.

Forget the economic crisis.....I want to hear answers as to what the candidates would do to ensure a Cubs pennant!

 

[DukeLaCrosse]

and the sox win again

 

[Galactic]

and the sox win again

I GUARANTEE a Rays' win tonight.




God I hope I'm right.

 

[Galactic]

I GUARANTEE a Rays' win tonight.




God I hope I'm right.

AND I WAS RIGHT!


barely.

 

[DukeLaCrosse]

and the sox win again

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

How gay is the "Red Sox Nation" as well. Let them get beat out of the World Series one year, and then everyone will forget them like all the Yankees bandwagoners did with my team, I'm glad we lost most of that crowd.

If it were not for the rest of the crowd you would be Tampa Bay so would the Red Sox. Large market teams with a true and long history are galvanizing in MLB fandom and draw a large audience overall, i dont need to tell you that. Look at the Knicks, The unfortuanate most NBA valuable team and NY fad that the rest nation could care less about.

 

[Galactic]

and the sox win again

They will not.......they CANNOT.........keep this crap up.


Go Rays!