10-03-2005, 12:39 AM
Minionman,Oct 2 2005, 03:42 PM Wrote:I've actually been kind of paying attention this year, thanks partially to my roommate's T.V. habits and the white sox getting in. That's who I'm rooting for. I was hoping Cleveland would get in as well, they would have been the backup team. Hoping the Red Sox and Yankees get beat. Haven't been paying attention to National legue, not sure what's happening there.
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I'm disappointed that there won't be a deciding game on monday between the Yanks and the Sox to determine who wins the division. The Yankees were given the honor for their superior in-division play. When the Red Sox won last year all I wanted out of the team this year was to take the division.
The fact is the Red Sox aren't the team they were a year ago. There is no Pedro, Schilling can't find a solid groove, there is no Nomar or Cabrera, no Derek Lowe, Keith Faulke has been flaky after a solid August. Not to mention Edgar "Errors" Renteria or slumping Manny Ramirez.
In respect to the general opinion about Sox Fans:
I was born 200 yards from Fenway at Beth Israel Hospital and spent my life growing up in towns just outside of Boston. My family and I have always been very loyal Red Sox fans. To be honest I don't fully understand the recent hate focused on Sox fans.
I was present at Kenmore Square during Yankees game 4, Yankees game 5, Yankees game 7 and Cardinals game 4. There were incredible crowds gathered, and in all honesty a lot of positive energy in the air. This wasn't a scenario where people were flipping over cars (like Mich. state fans are known to do), people were dancing, jumping, chanting and hugging eachother. The heavy police presence was well known, and the natural friction eventually erupted when it got late. As a witness amongst many other present friends we've all concluding in sum once the police said "get out" people walked away and "got out." *
* I won't get into the argument about whether police shot first before giving fair warnings or about the few boneheads that were there to pick a fight with the police. On the whole the masses by the thousands left when they were supposed to without trouble.
Being at BU for my third year now, its the first year I have heard more "[explative] the Red Sox" than "[explative] the Yankees." And I don't really understand it. In truth, Sox fans will always be rabid fans and will always rub some people the wrong way, and I am not trying to argue against that. But for the first time I've actually seen people more relaxed than they've ever been about the Red Sox. This isn't the 2003 playoffs when the Yankees won on a walk off homer. The Yankees fans can and have said plenty of things to me about how good they are, and they are indeed a great team. But each time I've always walked away with a smile, because I know we finally took it home last year. I know this isn't an isolated feeling from the rest of the Red Sox fans.
So why is this year so different than the others? Why is there so much open hate for the Sox and their fans?
Cheers,
Munk