Yankees vs. Redsox

[savethewave]

[quote][i]Originally posted by design_femme[/i]
<br>teehee, right now people are lighting up firecrackers around here, and I hear families and kids cheering in our neighborhood… and I don't even live *in* Boston, I live in the sleepy 'burbs!!!
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I guess that I should be happy for Boston...after all, the last time they won a series, milkmen still used horses, and diarrhea was the number-one cause of death in the US. God, if I hear one more overweight nursing-sow sports radio jagoff use the phrase "the curse of the bambino is lifted," "hell is freezing over," or any other such crap, I'm going to put a roll of his fat into a vise and squeeze until he bursts open like a plastic bag full of Kool-aid under a truck tire.

Boston won. They have a good team, and played a better game than anyone else this year. They got lucky in their wild card slot. Period. Red Sox fans should just bask in the glory of their team's victory, and not bring the Yankees into it. Boston, a city of merely regional importance, did it this year, not New York. That's it. Congratulations. Yankees fans don't lose any sleep over the rivalry. And no, we don't know "what it's like," because we haven't had 86 years' practice at being losers. At the rate of Boston's victories, they'd have to play for 2,236 years to equal the Yankees 26 World Series Championships.

We also don't set our team's city on fire like a bunch of South American soccer fans when our team wins, either. Boston's behavior was bad enough when the Red Sox won the AL championship. What's next? Are these "wicked awesome" knuckleheads going to make Boston look like London in "28 Days Later?"

So, I guess they'll "woo" into a camera, then I hope some of these types injure themselves in a permanent way while climbing onto a hotel sign or jumping off the Green Monster. I hope they get beaten to a pulp by the guy whose car they just flipped over.

To the people who get drunk, slap each other on the back, and laugh, you got the point. It's a freaking GAME. It's not an excuse to make your whole city look like Southie.

[2Nu]

Do I detect just a S l i g h t trace of indignation there STW eh?[;)]

So far, no reports of a 'Detroit' style celebration. [}:)]

Even though I'm not a Sox fan, I am happy for them just the same and felt it was good to give credit where good credit is due.[^]

I also have to read the victory as a good omen and metaphor for the pending outcome this time next week! [8)]

[Otters Walk Among Us]

new yorkers, and yankee fans in particular, are often (and usually unfairly, in my opinion) seen as arrogant pricks, and savethewave's post only serves to strenghten that perception. well done.

read a few pages of this and tell me if you think you "guess you should be happy for Boston:"

http://p086.ezboard.com/fsonsofsamhornb ... 4279.topic

[Quite Life]

[quote][i]Originally posted by savethewave[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by design_femme[/i]
<br>teehee, right now people are lighting up firecrackers around here, and I hear families and kids cheering in our neighborhood… and I don't even live *in* Boston, I live in the sleepy 'burbs!!!
[/quote]

I guess that I should be happy for Boston...after all, the last time they won a series, milkmen still used horses, and diarrhea was the number-one cause of death in the US. God, if I hear one more overweight nursing-sow sports radio jagoff use the phrase "the curse of the bambino is lifted," "hell is freezing over," or any other such crap, I'm going to put a roll of his fat into a vise and squeeze until he bursts open like a plastic bag full of Kool-aid under a truck tire.

Boston won. They have a good team, and played a better game than anyone else this year. They got lucky in their wild card slot. Period. Red Sox fans should just bask in the glory of their team's victory, and not bring the Yankees into it. Boston, a city of merely regional importance, did it this year, not New York. That's it. Congratulations. Yankees fans don't lose any sleep over the rivalry. And no, we don't know "what it's like," because we haven't had 86 years' practice at being losers. At the rate of Boston's victories, they'd have to play for 2,236 years to equal the Yankees 26 World Series Championships.

We also don't set our team's city on fire like a bunch of South American soccer fans when our team wins, either. Boston's behavior was bad enough when the Red Sox won the AL championship. What's next? Are these "wicked awesome" knuckleheads going to make Boston look like London in "28 Days Later?"

So, I guess they'll "woo" into a camera, then I hope some of these types injure themselves in a permanent way while climbing onto a hotel sign or jumping off the Green Monster. I hope they get beaten to a pulp by the guy whose car they just flipped over.

To the people who get drunk, slap each other on the back, and laugh, you got the point. It's a freaking GAME. It's not an excuse to make your whole city look like Southie.

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that was epic!

[savethewave]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Otters Walk Among Us[/i]
<br>new yorkers, and yankee fans in particular, are often (and usually unfairly, in my opinion) seen as arrogant pricks, and savethewave's post only serves to strenghten that perception. well done.

read a few pages of this and tell me if you think you "guess you should be happy for Boston:"
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Then I did MY job. Look at the last paragraph of my entry again, and wipe that smug little smirk off your face.

I read the post. Although it is very sweet, and tugs at the heartstrings, baseball is an f-ing GAME that grown men are paid ridiculous sums of money to play. There is no excuse, none whatsoever, for paid sports radio personalities to all use the same hack phrases or celebrating fans to destroy public and personal property. If it wasn't for their stupid, violent celibration after the Sox won the AL championship, that 21-year-old girl would still be alive. Mayor Menino wanted to close the bars during the Series because he was so worried that Bostonians couldn't behave themselves. Already there are stories of violence and disruption. Over a f-ing GAME. If we want this kind of behavior in NYC, we have to wait for the Puerto Rican Day Parade.

I recently found out that my circulatory disease ISN'T progressing, and that I'm probably going to have a near-normal lifespan, instead of dying in a few years. You think I'm happy about that? You bet. The difference, is that I'm NOT going to celebrate and go set my neighbor's car on fire or get drunk, climb onto my roof, and throw the empty bottles down at people.

The reality for me is that if ALL televized professional sports all went away tomorrow, life would go on. A lot of these tubs of goo fathers that I see plunking their fat asses down in front of the TV might have to actually talk and interact with their families on the weekend.

I AM happy for the fans who celebrate responsibly. But most of that happiness for these fans who have been denied for so long turns to ashes at the sight and sound of what these violent, animal "fans" in Boston are doing to others, in the name of a GAME.

THAT's what I'm griping about. I put the 2,236, milkman, Kool-Aid, and 28 Days Later references in for humorous effect.

[Otters Walk Among Us]

Fine, gripe away. So your anger is directed the very tiny minority of fans that act like idiots, all well and good, they embarrass us as well. You have gripes against the media, I don't blame you, I share them.
Do you think that I, Grunch, Randy and the other Sox fans on this board endorse this behavior and/or don't realize that it is just a game and there are more important things in life?
If not, then what is the purpose of your rant here except to try and throw a damper on our euphoria? Us losers from this small city of merely regional importance are happy today, let us enjoy it, won't you?

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go overturn some cars, it's what we do up here in the sticks. Maybe the Puerto Rican woman in my office will help, since she's probably good at that sort of thing.

[Otters Walk Among Us]

Sorry, folks, for the anger, I should have ignored the rant, for the same reason I stay out of the political and religious discussions.

I think most Sox fans would agree with Trot Nixon, who said that he would be glad to trade the Game 7 win over the Yankees to get the college student back.

[Jimbo]

Trash talk between Yankees and Bo Sox fans is half the fun.
Just to prove that there are no hard feeling on my end towards the Yankee fans out there, I offer up this tee shirt to commemorate the fine post-season play by the 2004 Yankees.

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[b]Feel the love![/b] [;)]

[savethewave]

That T-shirt is hilarious! I wish it was real. I'd buy it in a heartbeat. The only thing I'd add is the person in the back saying "Who's your daddy," while wearing a strap-on.

And Otters, you have nothing to fear from your female Puerto Rican co-worker, but she does if she goes to NYC during the PR parade, because her chance of getting assaulted by gangs of drunken men goes up over 1,000 percent.

[Jimbo]

I'm glad you saw the humor. [;)]

[Quite Life]

So who witness that 17-1 a** kicking of the Redsox over the Yanks was it a week end sweep?

[i_like_lectric_motors]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Quite Life[/i]
<br>So who witness that 17-1 a** kicking of the Redsox over the Yanks was it a week end sweep?
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That was a thing of beauty. Not a sweep but 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

[DayGloJo]

Excuse me, here. I know it's only the end of May but neither of these two baseball teams you've all been discussing have lead the AL East at any time this season. [:D]

Let's Go Orioles!!!!!!!!!!! [^]

DayGloJo
(Who's married to a big-time member of Red Sox Nation)

[DayGloJo]

Wow!![:0] Way to kill a thread! [:D]

Much like the Orioles killed the Red Sox in last night's game 8-1. [;)]

DayGloJo

[xtc-1957]

GO O's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!