Tired of hearing about the Red Sox?!

by SoCal As Fan on Apr 12, 2005 4:13 PM PDT

Is anyone else out there tired of everything Red Sox? I want to hear about everyone, but it seems all ESPN and CBS can do is cover the Red Sox (or Yankees). Well this guy over at ESPN Page 2, feels the same way. Here is a funny article about how overexposed the Red Sox have become. Here are 86 reasons to hate the Red Sox.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=schoenfield/050412

Numbers 9 and 11 bring back painful memories.

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AMEN

by hoyos on Apr 12, 2005 4:40 PM PDT reply actions

#43

"Fever Pitch"

athleticsnation.com, 164

by ArakSOT on Apr 12, 2005 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Good stuff, Maynard.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. - Will Rogers

by McFood on Apr 12, 2005 4:44 PM PDT reply actions

"We're starting to dislike the Red Sox"

I think most of us "started" to dislike them about 100 years ago. The New York Red Sox of Boston.

"No rational purpose exists" - Judge Richard Kramer

by Parklife on Apr 12, 2005 5:00 PM PDT reply actions

What's funny

Is even the Sports Guy (artest formally known as the Boston Sport Guy, Writer for Jimmy Kimmel and now just Bill Simmons), is sick of all the whoopla around the Sox. He has mentioned it in every article he has written about them this year. I mean, let's get real here, they actually filmed an entire day with Johnny Damon when he did Good Morning America, Regis and Kathy errr Kelly errr whoever, and also had Queer Eye for the Idiot, and then ran the show. What a fricken joke. Dammon the author....the talk show freak...the reality show freak....there is allot of talk coming out of Boston that he will be gone by July as the Sox try to lose the "idiots" logo, but why stop there...I mean they still have Man Ram, and Kevin Milllllllar on the team....will the idiot mantage ever end? Doesn't seem like they are too keyed on the season, still living in the past, least they will never have to pay for another drink in a Boston tavern ever again.

Here's to hoping the love fest goes crashing in flames.

(PS Sorry for the semi coherent rant...)

"Not the fucking ducks again." Tony S.

by rook on Apr 12, 2005 5:09 PM PDT reply actions

the icing on the cake

will be when they fail to even make the post season.

los angelheim whoevers of the wherenows?

by JMC @ Athletics Nation on Apr 12, 2005 5:10 PM PDT reply actions

Great Article

except for the part at the beginning when he says better the sox than the yankees (to win the series). I see no difference between the two teams. The 2004 Sox had the highest team salary of any team to win the series. Plus, the curse was a part of baseball lore. I sure do miss it.

I'm the guy with the Carney Lansford jersey

by gojohn10 on Apr 12, 2005 5:35 PM PDT reply actions

Cave Man

Damon. Ugh. Don't care where he played before, enough with Encino Man.

It's quirky and fun to see/read reports of Barry Zito's off-field singing and whatnot, with Damon it's grating in that East Coast way.

He's in a far, far better place now... for him.

And for us!

by Dan_Honolulu on Apr 12, 2005 8:35 PM PDT reply actions

great...except

he forgot to put one of my top 3 reasons for hating the sox: mirabelli and others spelling out "l-i-l-l-y" and standing on the top step of the dugout in game 3 of the 2003 alds...real classy, guys

are you sayin' jesus christ can't hit a curveball?

by andyc on Apr 12, 2005 9:20 PM PDT reply actions

L-I-L-L-Y: that's my #1 reason!

the derek lowe crotch grab was nothing compared to spelling out lilly...

does anyone know of a photo of that incident?

by xbhaskarx on Apr 12, 2005 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions

lilly?explain plz?

can someone explain to me about the lilly incident? i dont seem to know what ur talking about sry...

gojohn10, u bring up a good point.i think the red sox lose a bit of their mystique now that theyre not "cursed". that was a part of baseball and now its gone. also they used so much money they pretty much bought the WS.man...great minds think alike huh? and plus we got the same name , wierd...

by OakT0wnB0rNnRaZed on Apr 13, 2005 12:25 AM PDT reply actions

the lilly incident

during the infamous game 3 of the 2003 alds, ted lilly was pitching a masterful game (1er in 7ip i believe)...all game long, red sox fans were chanting "lil-ly! lil-ly!"--all part of the game, if you ask me...however, about 4 red sox players (i know doug mirabelli is one, don't know about the others) stood on the top step of their dugout and had "l-i-l-l-y" spelled out across the backs of their warm-up jackets (of course, the infinite wisdom that is tim mccarver thought it was hilarious)

my take on it: i don't care if the fans are doing it...i would do it if all the oakland fans were chanting "ped-ro!"...but the players don't need to do something classless like that. that's something a little league team would do.

are you sayin' jesus christ can't hit a curveball?

by andyc on Apr 13, 2005 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions

#s 72, 73, and 74...

...could have been written about any team's fan base and still have contained truth. I see it from various posters - on a rotating basis it seems - every time I visit here, too! Hell, even I get in on that some of that action at times.

Now, excuse me while I go flog myself. [Not meant as a self-gratification reference]

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by LowcountryJoe on Apr 13, 2005 6:17 AM PDT reply actions