Thanks for letting me know that I'm not a true New Englander because I don't like your baseball team. I didn't know that was a requirement. Yeah, did you miss the memo on that one? I thought your state motto was "Live Free or Die", not "I Live To Unzip Paul O'Neill's Fly". I guess you're a big Laker fan too, right? I kid. Of course I made a bit of an overstatement. You're as New England as anyone else. But that doesn't change the fact that your family is a band of traitors when it comes to hardball... Their every thought with regards to baseball revolves more around the Yankees than it does with the Sox. A truly ignorant comment. Yes, Sox fans obsess over the Yankees, but it's only a smaller part of the much, much larger Sox obsession. For the last couple of months, when baseball is supposedly in the offseason, Red Sox fans have been agonizing over questions like "Who is going to play short this year -- Alex Gonzales, Julio Lugo or Dustin Pedroia?!" "Should we trade Andy Marte or hang onto him?" "Who do you like better, Papelbon, Lester or Manny Delcarmen?" Seriously, we talk about this stuff almost every day. Trust me, you probably wouldn't understand. (See, I'm qualifying my statements now.)
Venice-Thank you but it's not Paul O'neils fly it's Derek Jeter's lol. I love living here I love most Redsox fans too. We have a ton of fun giving each other crap. As for the Lakers I don't watch baketball. I watch football though and no I don't like the patriots. I think maybe I was just raised to be a shit starter.
Yeah, that seems apparent. Gotta love NH people though - you guys are stubborn and don't take sh*t from anybody!
Their every thought with regards to baseball revolves more around the Yankees than it does with the Sox. A truly ignorant comment. First off, it was meant to be sarcastic. I think I actually DO understand true Red Sox fans think more about their own team. I'd still tend to be a bit embarrassed if a team in my favorite team's organization went to the stupid lengths of trying to rid little kids' leagues of their main rival's name. If the people running the leagues don't see a big problem with it, or can't seem to find a solution should they know it's a problem, then they aren't too bright.
Good, then we agree. (As a sarcastic individual myself, I've learned that it doesn't always come across in the written word.) When Yankee fans are taking your words at face value, you've gotta expect a retort... I think you are misunderstanding the motives of the Lowell Spinners, who are just trying to drum up publicity, effectively I might add. I sincerely doubt they're on a hell-bent quest to rid New England of the Yankees. As our friend jtrluva demonstrates, there are Yankee-lovers everywhere. As long as they buy up all the marquee talent and win more often than they lose, that'll never change. Frankly, I couldn't care less what the little leagues do, but if I had been assigned to the Yankees as a kid, I'd have gladly traded for a Lowell uni.
From Webster: Main Entry: 1Yankee Pronunciation: 'ya[ng]-kE Function: noun Etymology: origin unknown 1 a : a native or inhabitant of New England... And here I thought Red Sox fans were tortured by a championship drought...
Venice I hope you weren't meaning to say that I'm a bandwagon fan. The Yanks will always be my favorite team even if they were in last place. If I was a bandwagon fan I'd be a sox fan right after the dramatic way they won it all in 2004.
the red sox win 1 world series in a century. Well, 5, but who's counting? Well, it is one in a century, the current century, but, as the man said why let facts get in the way of a good point......*smiling large*
Oh, if we're talking About the current century, I believe the Sox lead the Yankees 1 to 0 (the century starting in 2001, not 2000).
(grinning) Always manipulating those numbers to suite your argument, eh, yerfatma?
