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Baseball Musings
September 21, 2005
Nation's Disgrace

Sheriff Sully, a life long Red Sox fans, takes Red Sox Nation to task over their treatment of Foulke and others this year:

When it comes to the Red Sox, I have no ego. I understood that many before me never saw a World Series. And they certainly never saw the humiliation of the Yankees. Nothing can top that. And nothing can take those memories away from me. It’s a shame that so many have already tarnished those memories.

This season should’ve been one long celebration. Standing ovation after standing ovation at Fenway. It should’ve been about just enjoying the buzz and allowing nothing to take our glow away. Sox fans should’ve enjoyed this season as if they just had the best sex of their lives.

Alas, what was 86 years in the making took less than seven months to crumble.

And in the process, obliviously, the majority of Red Sox fans are living their worse nightmare.

They’ve become just like Yankees fans.

This reminds me of an Aimee Mann lyric:

Once you were just our dear friend Ron
Now you look out for number one
Who would’ve guessed that you’d become
What you hated


Posted by David Pinto at 02:41 PM | Fan Rant | TrackBack (0)
Comments

If this is Sully's first time being embarrassed as a Red Sox fan then he must have been living in a bubble or state of denial in the past.

Has he not heard of the racist history? How about the racist taunts to opposing pitchers in the bullpen? How about the "fad" in the 80s of men passing around a blow up sexual doll in the bleachers and pretending to fornicate with it? How about the drunks and foul language at Fenway? It goes on and on...

While I agree with Sully that it's a shame the good vibe didn't continue, to this Red Sox fan, at least, it comes as absolutely no surprise.

There's always been and always will be a neanderthal contingent of Red Sox Nation.

Posted by: Edw. at September 21, 2005 03:00 PM

Just a thought, but if you've just had the best sex of your life, aren't you likely to want some more, and not in ten years' time, but fairly soon?

Posted by: Iain at September 21, 2005 03:17 PM

Yes, you would want to try again, of course. But do you think you will get more of the same by berating your partner at every opportunity?

Posted by: Ben at September 21, 2005 03:23 PM

It is always thus with fans of all sport. The only real difference here is that the some Red Sox fans have lost the safety net that was the [nonsensical] Curse: many were always good at bouncing back from a disappointing season, (for example: razzing the Yanks in '00 and '04 as if the '99 and '03 ALCSs hadn't ruffled a feather), and they are now in the unfamiliar situation of being disappointed after a great winning season. Their reaction is typical of fans of most championship teams: they want their team to keep winning, and they find that the nature of this desire when one is with a front-runner differs from that same desire with an underdog: there is a strange desperation when your team is the king of hill, and a real lack of the free-and-easy rooting that came with not being expected to win it all...even the anger at losing is different: when you're expected to lose, you hate the team that beats you; when you're expected to win, you may yet hate the team that beat you, but resentment of your own creeps in. I fear that this may apply to many members of RSN.

This of course doesn't apply to all of RSN: they are a heterogenous group of folks, and many continue to appreciate the beauty of last season. Baseball is amazing in that its rules apply to the smallest and largest views of the game: a player goes 2-5, and it's a great day; a team makes the playoffs 4 out of 10 years, wins the series once, and it's a successful decade.

Posted by: Dave S. at September 21, 2005 04:26 PM

As an Angels Season Ticket holder, I've had a chance to experience many different visiting fans. I would say the Red Sox fans are the most obnoxious, with Dodger and Yankees fans as almost as bad - based on loudness, and number of fights in the stands.

Posted by: JudyB at September 21, 2005 07:49 PM

I heard an interview on WEEI with Keith Foulke a couple
of months ago, and it was one of the saddest things I've
ever heard. The guys from the station were generally
nice to him, but it seems like Foulke took the most idle,
tangential, throw away speculation that might have been
mentioned for no real reason---much too much to heart.
Foulke is injured, recently had surgery, period. The fact
that anyone is blaming him for anything is a joke, but
it's worse that he seems to take it quite seriously.

Posted by: susan mullen at September 21, 2005 11:21 PM
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