Tired of Red Sox Fans in Oakland

Dear Red Sox Fans,

If you're gonna come to the game fine. Sit there and if your precious BoSox make a good move clap. That's fine, but respect our house and dont chant obnoxiuosly. Don't make A's fans turn to Raiders fans and kick you out. ok? good.

Thank you,

A's fan

p.s. If you're not from New England than stop pretending and jump off the bandwagon.

p.p.s. Just because you have family in New England does not mean you are from there and that is no reason to be a Red Sox fan.

There isn't anything more annoying than a current-day Red Sox fan. This comes from a native New Englander who grew up devoted to the team. I watched Bucky Dent's homer in '78 from a hospital bed waiting for my tonsils to be removed (the doctor joined me).

It used to be you loved the Sox because of the hope that they could win. They never did, so you loved them more. It was an inherited character flaw based on geography and long winters.

Now it's cool to love them because they win. It's also a way for carpetbaggers to reminisce about Boston. I say to them, if you like it so much, go back. You'll be closer to Fenway and its ridiculous ticket prices.

On Saturday, the Sox/Yanks game was televised nationally (of course). I watched the first half before I had to take my dog out. In the park is a guy with a Sox hat and a "World Series" hoodie. I had to ask him, "How can you not be watching the game?" He gave me a blank look. I'm not sure he even knew the game was on.

Unfortunately, a lot know where the games are the next four days. Give em hell.

I have ever had involved Red Sox fans.  I happened to be in Orange County so I decided to see the Red Sox play the Angels.  At the time I didn't hate the Sox (2002) almost as much as I hate the Yankee's and the Angels.  I sat in the nosebleeds with my wife and daughter and was completely surrounded by Sox fans.  One group directly behind me were young males who proceeded to get ripped during the game.  One dude actually smuggled in alcohol in a catheter bag taped to his ankle.  By the fifth inning they were falling all over everybody.  One of the idiots actually urinated in a bottle with kids around.  Final straw.  I thought I was going to have to toss one of the idiots off the third deck, which wouldn't have been all that difficult.  After an exchange of unpleasantries I let them know that now would be a good time to leave before the cops with uniforms on showed up.  A night in the kiddie pervert section of the Orange county jail might not be to their liking.  That prospect seemed to penetrate their alcohol soaked stupidity and they scampered off to the sound of jeers from the other fans in the area.  All the other encounters with Red Sox fan's haven't been as pleasant.  I don't mind watching them get beat in the stands at all.  As a matter of policy I always tell Oakland PD that the Red Sox fans are repsonsible for all altercations in my immidiate area.

Last year I went to a Red Sox / Angels game at Anaheim Stadium.  I got off the train and was walking through the parking lot when I saw a group of Sox fans having a few beers.  I went over to them to wish their team well that night, and they could see by my gear that I was an A's fan.

Well, they offered up a few beers, and we hung out and talked for about 20 minutes before I had to go and try to hook up with a mate of mine who was driving up from San Diego.

Anyway, these people were very normal, very nice, knowledgeable and respectful.  A few of them were from Boston but now lived in SoCal and a few others were still living in Boston but were following their team on a west coast swing.

Every team - even the A's - has a few loutish thug obnoxious asshole fans.  I suspect the majority of fans of any team are not that much different from all of us, they just have a different allegience

Cheers

holla.

I can empathize to an extent. I'm starting to dislike going to Red Sox-A's games because of the crappy fans that go to it on both sides. On the A's side, it's regrettable but it seems a lot of diehard A's fans give the Red Sox series a miss and you get your higher than average proportion of Raiduh loving meatheads. Causing trouble isn't really in my nature (I usually go alone anyway, so it's not like I have a posse) and by the fact my cap has a B on it, I'm good for one in your face fuck you per year from some drunk twit in a Randy Moss jersey. Honestly, it's enough to make a man pull out his Patriots flag and run around the plaza front row with it (still the ultimate coup de grace in Red Sox-A's sparring). Tonight a couple of drunk assholes made a point of harrassing every Sox fan they saw and poured beer on an eight year old kid's head. Guys screaming fuck you when Papi went deep just isn't something that should be heard in a ballpark (at best, it's uncreative and lame). There's no question in my mind it's a two way street when it comes to the verbal taunting and abuse.

But god damn I hate the fucking pink hat crowd. When I started going in the early 90s you used to get maybe 3-4,000 in a 30,000 crowd and you pretty much stopped everybody you saw in a Red Sox hat and exchanged pleasantries because it was a fairly rare sight seeing one. Now I know from personal experience that there has been a flood of New Englanders into the region in the last few years - there's pretty much been a flood of everybody - because of financial, tech, biotech jobs, etc etc etc.

But dude, five years ago it was the same couple thousand. Where the hell were these people?  Now to be fair, it wasn't just 04. For me there was at least twice as many people during the 03 series and just as many for the playoffs, especially since people fly in from all over and make it a holiday in San Francisco and whatnot. And in late 06 when the Red Sox were falling apart there was still a really good number of Red Sox fans, way more than I expected personally.

But for sure 05 is when you saw a flood of newbs.

It's hard to tell who is who, really. I know some people who went to Boston for college and moved right out of Boston who are great fans; I know some people who grew up in Dorchester who are meatheads I wouldn't want to talk baseball with for five minutes. I myself am the son of Connecticut natives who grew up Red Sox fans and went to school in Boston; I was in a Red Sox onesie as an infant (by the way - cram it 15andlovinit). I met a really cool guy who has been a Red Sox fan for 40 years and grew up in Wyoming of all places.

but Red Sox fans are starting to drive me crazy. Before 2004, they were basically dominated by Yankees fans and it was like "ok, whatev". Now they all just sit around and are like "Oh, we're the best, Beckett's the best pitcher in the majors" and I just sit there and go "Uh, Haren? Uh, Peavy?" I'm SICK of it! And, to top it off, they're like "Oh, we suffered sooo much, and now we get to play Moneyball with millions..." they think their organization is so smart, but they're inconsistent and cheap and Theo's just a lucky bastard and the fans are annoying beyond anything... ok, maybe hate is the proper word...

Yankee fans tend to be the most arrogant and jaded.

Red Sox fans tend to be the most belligerent and fanatical.

And Giants fans...well, they usually fall into one of two camps: indifferent or deluded.