You as a Red Sox fan have only ever known what's it's like to win one. So quit beating your chest as if you've accomplished something monumentous ...
Maybe one day, we deluded Red Sox fans'll find out what it feels like to drop a seven-game series to our top rival when we're up three games to zero and are a mere three outs away from a sweep with the lead and the greatest closer in the world on the mound ...
I'm sure if that ever happens to us, we'll also consider it not very monumentous.
It's beyond unfortunate, it's downright pathetic.
So why's a big-time winner like you wasting your time with us deluded losers?
In 2005, I once saw a Yankee fan on a Red Sox blog say (more or less), "The reason I respect the readers of this blog is because I've never heard one say, 'It's okay if we don't win this year, we won last time.' A true fan knows the team is only as good as its latest accomplishment." A Sox reader replied, "Yeah, and what's great about that is, you never hear Yankee fans mentioning the number of championships they have won. Not a single Yankee fan does this."
So, yeah, history is effing history there, blind swipe.
Here's an idea: no talking until April...when things actually happen.
Torre's a standup guy. I only wish he worked for a boss who wasn't a nutcase.
This BoSox fan in Yankee land would just like to add. . . I've been a Soxaholic for long enough (since pre-'67) to qualify. . . there is something about love of the BoSox that Yankees fans will never comperehend. The most telling thing I can say about living in NY is that, the year when some team (must have been the Y's, but my jaded brain refuses to recall) made the Series but didn't win, there was a discussion about whether or not to have a parade for them - the idea being that it was emabarassing to get to the Series but not to win. Worse than not making the Series at all. [Having a parade a BFD in this town, requiring as it does shutting down most of the financial district to traffic.]
I lived here (Yankee land) in the doldrums of the '80's, when attendance at Ruth's House [whose house? OUR HOUSE!] was so low that they were reduced to giving away tickets, which was how I managed to take my young son to his first ball game as an impoverished single parent. Sox won, BTW, and I think we saw Yaz hit one of his last few HRs. On the way home, waiting for the subway, we were subjected to a young (20-something or less) Yankees fan trying to impress his Dad by chanting "Red Sox suck," as if that would negate the game which had just occurred.
Some of my best friends are Yankee fans.
ReplyDeleteIt's a huge problem in my life.
"... the Yankees own the AL EAST
ReplyDeleteYeah so uh, how's that been working out for ya?
You as a Red Sox fan have only ever known what's it's like to win one. So quit beating your chest as if you've accomplished something monumentous ...
ReplyDeleteMaybe one day, we deluded Red Sox fans'll find out what it feels like to drop a seven-game series to our top rival when we're up three games to zero and are a mere three outs away from a sweep with the lead and the greatest closer in the world on the mound ...
I'm sure if that ever happens to us, we'll also consider it not very monumentous.
It's beyond unfortunate, it's downright pathetic.
So why's a big-time winner like you wasting your time with us deluded losers?
In 2005, I once saw a Yankee fan on a Red Sox blog say (more or less), "The reason I respect the readers of this blog is because I've never heard one say, 'It's okay if we don't win this year, we won last time.' A true fan knows the team is only as good as its latest accomplishment." A Sox reader replied, "Yeah, and what's great about that is, you never hear Yankee fans mentioning the number of championships they have won. Not a single Yankee fan does this."
ReplyDeleteSo, yeah, history is effing history there, blind swipe.
Here's an idea: no talking until April...when things actually happen.
Torre's a standup guy. I only wish he worked for a boss who wasn't a nutcase.
ReplyDeleteThis BoSox fan in Yankee land would just like to add. . . I've been a Soxaholic for long enough (since pre-'67) to qualify. . . there is something about love of the BoSox that Yankees fans will never comperehend. The most telling thing I can say about living in NY is that, the year when some team (must have been the Y's, but my jaded brain refuses to recall) made the Series but didn't win, there was a discussion about whether or not to have a parade for them - the idea being that it was emabarassing to get to the Series but not to win. Worse than not making the Series at all. [Having a parade a BFD in this town, requiring as it does shutting down most of the financial district to traffic.]
I lived here (Yankee land) in the doldrums of the '80's, when attendance at Ruth's House [whose house? OUR HOUSE!] was so low that they were reduced to giving away tickets, which was how I managed to take my young son to his first ball game as an impoverished single parent. Sox won, BTW, and I think we saw Yaz hit one of his last few HRs. On the way home, waiting for the subway, we were subjected to a young (20-something or less) Yankees fan trying to impress his Dad by chanting "Red Sox suck," as if that would negate the game which had just occurred.
In which WE WON.