In an interview with the New York Times' Play magazine, the clown whose mouth is always several yards ahead of his brain says: Red Sox Nation? What a bunch of [expletive] that is. That was a creation of the Red Sox and ESPN, which is filled with Red Sox fans.What Mr. Hankee didn't say was that, two years ago, in an blatantly obvious attempt to be like the Red Sox, the Chokers created and sold "Yankee Universe" t-shirts.
Go anywhere in America and you won't see Red Sox hats and jackets, you'll see Yankee hats and jackets. This is a Yankee country. We're going to put the Yankees back on top and restore the universe to order.
This guy -- a winner of the lucky sperm contest -- is a solid-gold asshole who has no concept of the idea of a professional businessman keeping some of his thoughts to himself. The Hankapalooza Era is going to be non-stop fun. I hope he runs the MFY (into the ground) for the next three decades.
Thanks to Dennis, my supervisor at work, for the image!!! I have a feeling I'll be using it a lot this summer.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of hype involved in the idea of "Red Sox Nation" and last year's presidential race, even though obviously meant in fun, got way too much ink for my liking.
ReplyDeleteBut at this point, I see at least as many Sox caps in San Francisco as Yankee caps. I even heard a Yankee fan in The Bar try to portray the Yankees as underdogs in terms of fan base, although around the same time last fall there was an article which tried to quantify this race which left the Sox in a solid but not particularly close second place.
I think there are still more Yankee fans overall, but any "America's team" notion has been tossed on the heap starting with the 2001 WS. Steinbrenner is indeed a blathering dipshit when he says stuff like this. So the Sox have a hype machine going on and a lot of newer fans -- what smart team would turn them away? Mr. Hankee's just smarting from a loss of Yankee prestige.
I remember a few years ago when the Can. gov't was launching the $2.00 coin. The genius press was speculating on what the common folk would call it --doubloon, 2-piece etc., when there was only one obvious nickname, given the loonie.
ReplyDeleteAnd what name sticks to Hank?
It is amazing how a man that is at the helm of one of America's most scrutinized pro sports teams somehow cannot take 3 seconds to think about what he is saying. Ever time I hear this guy talk I lose some respect for him. Hank just take a lesson in class from the captain of his own baseball team.
ReplyDeleteI hate the moronic RSN cards. I'd rather the team drop the phrase altogether and if fans wanna use it, then they do.
ReplyDeleteGotta love the Chokers trying to leap on a bandwagon that has already worn out its welcome with true fans. What MFY fans will buy a shirt that he knows is a pale imitation of a Red Sox idea?
Ever time I hear this guy talk I lose some respect for him.
ReplyDeleteWait a minnit - you had some respect for him to begin with?
Err... actually no, come to think of it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, that last sentence should have said "Hank should take a lesson in class from his own baseball team's captain."
Fuck NY and everything that came out of that God-forsaken state...
ReplyDeleteExcept for the Mets and Niagara Falls. Those are nice.
Except for the Mets and Niagara Falls. Those are nice.
ReplyDeleteAnd Laura. She's nice too.
I find Hank good for the Red Sox-Yankee rivalry...Just like when his father was saying and doing stupid shit for years.....He's comical and just another yankee to hate.....The front office has been silent for years in the Bronx...he adds a little life to are new found dominace....
ReplyDeleteAnd about the class act the captain is...please save that for a yankee site....trained monkeys aren't full of class they are just trained .......When Derek Jeter says something of relevance let me know......
Agreed on the "Red Sox Nation" cliche. As someone who was a devoted Red Sox fan when it was a very lonely pursuit, I find it redolant of front-runners, come-latelies and "summmer soldiers."
ReplyDeleteBut Hank is full of it. Here in DC, there are 5 Red Sox caps for every Yankee cap. Ask the Orioles whose fans are more numerous, supportive and astute. No contest.
Fuck NY and everything that came out of that God-forsaken state...
ReplyDeleteFuck you too, Colin.
Sorry I've had a shitty week and the last thing I wanna deal with is some pretentious NY fuckwit who thinks he knows better than anyone else how to run a God damn franchise.
ReplyDeleteI'm also tired of listening to that fucking 26 Ring argument, especially from little college/HS prats who weren't around for most of them. I know I wasn't alive in 1918 but I was for 2004/7, so fuck off kids. The future generation of Americans = I'm screwed (and I'm part of it too :( ).
I find Hank good for the Red Sox-Yankee rivalry...Just like when his father was saying and doing stupid shit for years.....He's comical and just another yankee to hate.....The front office has been silent for years in the Bronx...he adds a little life to are new found dominace....
ReplyDelete9Casey is right. Everyone missed Georgie when he was fading away and silent. You know it would have been more fun to watch the Yankees melt down if George had been exploding to the media every other week. You know you all missed that! So now there's another buffoon to laugh at. Enjoy!
I've referred to my self as past of Red Sox Nation for as long as I can remember. However that's because I'm a die-hard, life long Red Sox fan that grew up and still lives in Portland, OR I stopped using the term so much after it became an Official Club because I think the idea of it is stupid.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's why Joy Nation kind of rankles me. Can we think of another term? Jos-ites?
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget that "Red Sox Nation" was first coined by CHB.
ReplyDeleteSorry I've had a shitty week and the last thing I wanna deal with is some pretentious NY fuckwit who thinks he knows better than anyone else how to run a God damn franchise.
ReplyDeleteSo try directing your issues at the fuckwit. You can't be stupid enough to think this man is somehow representative of the entire state of New York "and everything that came out of it".
You've aired this particular bigotry more than once here at JoS. I assure you every time you do, I'll respond to it in kind.
The last thing you want to deal with? Who the fuck is asking YOU to deal with anything? Who the fuck are you to curse out people based on what state they come from?
Fuck you too, Colin.
ReplyDeleteYep. I saw that one coming about 50 miles away.
Let's not forget that "Red Sox Nation" was first coined by CHB.
ReplyDeleteNo, let's totally forget it, and just enjoy the expression. So what if it's been co-opted by the masses. You know it's real, that's all that counts.
Josites? Too religious-y, don't you think?
Yep. I saw that one coming about 50 miles away.
ReplyDeleteIf you didn't, get thee to an optometrist!
Sidebar: I refer to myself as a New Yorker, though I usually add that I was born in Vermont.
ReplyDeleteOK, I over-reacted. It was cumulative. Colin says that shite all the time and I'm sick of it. Sorry for going off.
ReplyDelete(But not for the first fuck you.)
Sidebar: I refer to myself as a New Yorker, though I usually add that I was born in Vermont.
ReplyDeleteI thought maybe you didn't respond because he said "came out of New York", and you didn't actually originate there.
I love Red Sox Nation , just for the reason it irritates the hell out of Yankee fans....Go up to a yankee fan and mention the "nation" and they get that look on their face like they are going to vomit in their mouth.......priceless.....
ReplyDeleteL, you are in mid-season form in February, I like it........:)
Another thing Hank is doing is taking the spotlight of some of his players , by just being the headline....Ya think A-rod isn't happy he's there....
ReplyDeleteL, you are in mid-season form in February, I like it........:)
ReplyDeleteWhy thank you.
I'm like most of the players, I don't need spring training, I work out all year. :)
L-girl said...
ReplyDeleteI'm like most of the players, I don't need spring training, I work out all year. :)
That shows in your excellent use of italics, icons ,and also your uncanny placement of correct punctuation.....
ESPN, which is filled with Red Sox fans
ReplyDeleteEveryone has overlooked this gem.
Like every other MFY fan, Hankee has the same cluelessness to Bristol's chronic Yankee fellatiofest.
MFY fans are also convinced that Buck & McCarver are total Red Sox fans who despise the Yankees -- and the umpires and the league office is against them too.
redsock said...
ReplyDeleteThanks to Dennis, my supervisor at work, for the image!!! I have a feeling I'll be using it a lot this summer.
When I first saw that image ...I thought it was the Planter's Peanut guy
ESPN, which is filled with Red Sox fans
ReplyDeleteEveryone has overlooked this gem.
Not me. I think it's hilarious. Red Sox fans think ESPN loves the Yankees, Yankees fans thinks they love the Red Sox. No one here likes to hear it, but the two sides of the rivalry have a lot in common.
Good times...Another Steinbrenner generation at whom I can cast copious amounts of loathing.
ReplyDeleteI'm a goddam New Yorker, too (upstate)!
ReplyDeleteHooray for upstate New York, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame and the birthplace of the US women's movement - and Zenslinger!
ReplyDeleteJoShovah's Witnesses?
ReplyDeleteBirthplace, L. Now it's San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteAnd I do have to make it to Cooperstown one o' these days.
JoShovah's Witnesses?
ReplyDeleteWe may have a winner. Brilliant!
Birthplace, L. Now it's San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteI know that. :)
That's why I wrote "the birthplace of the US women's movement - and Zenslinger!"
I was trying to get the birthplace in there.
JoShovah's Witnesses?
ReplyDeleteAck!
Gosh, I don't know what Hank's talking about. I went to a Mariners-Red Sox game last year at Safeco and I swear at least one-third of the caps in the stands were Red Sox.
ReplyDeleteTwo world titles in four years.
Jealous much, Hank?
Hank Steinbrenner=Horse Shit.
ReplyDeleteBoth have H.S. initials.
Coincidence? I think not.
Pepe Lepew said...
ReplyDeleteGosh, I don't know what Hank's talking about. I went to a Mariners-Red Sox game last year at Safeco and I swear at least one-third of the caps in the stands were Red Sox.
Just for the sake of your study ......did you go to mariners -yankees game?
Birthplace, L. Now it's San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteI know that. :)
That's why I wrote "the birthplace of the US women's movement - and Zenslinger!"
I was trying to get the birthplace in there.
Oh, my eye picked up from "Home of..." I ought never underestimate you...or your boy Lyndon!
Just for the sake of your study ......did you go to mariners -yankees game?
ReplyDeleteSat Mar 01, 01:44:00 PM
Yuck, who'd want to pay good money to go see the Yankers? They suck!
i'm glad that within months of taking over he's already proven to be a completely brainless moron, forever enshrining himself as someone who deserves to be locked in a small shack, set on fire and dropped out of an airplane while flying over the north atlantic.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the poll ? on espn.com as of 3:38
ReplyDeleteBut, Tim, dropping him in the ocean would deprive us of what I think is going to be a very entertaining summer.
ReplyDeleteDumbo declines, the young arms struggle, Pettitte can't concentrate ... hell, maybe the Jays get hot and settle into second place ... we need Hank.
Silly poll -- though of course I voted!
ReplyDeleteA better question would be: Which is larger?
I said deserves to be...not should be ;-)
ReplyDeleteNo doubt we need him around for many years of these gems.