When did it become cool to hate the Red Sox? It's the quickest big band wagon to develop in sports history.Are people that jealous and petty? Two World Championships (since fucking 1918 btw) and some bitches actually HATE the Red Sox out of no where!What the fuck?tl;dr - WTF?Picture related and also original content.
no, it's due to the national media's circle-jerk over them the likes of which hasn't been seen since the late 90s with the Yankees.
People want any reason to hate Boston.
>>21964The media is just covering the Champions, that's all. There was a bit of enhanced coverage in 04 because that was some historical shit.That can't be the reason, or every Championship team would be hated.
I hate the Red Sox because the fans are drunken idiots.
almost as fast as it became cool to love the red sox.I swear to god, go out to anywhere in the country and you'll see more people wearing Red Sox gear than Yankee stuff.
IT'S ALL ESPN'S FAULT! Now if you'll excuse me, there's a carton of cigarettes with my name on it.
>>21988Well Hank..or Larry or Billy or Steve Steinbrenner came out and said that no matter where you go in the country you'll always see more Yankees' hats, shirts, coats, and Yankees brand Guido Spray, than the Red Sox. He said that this was a short fad that the Red Sox are popular and that "Yankees' Country" is stronger than "Red Sox Nation."I believe him.
>>21981you just don't understand. there's a difference between covering them and pretending they're the only team in existence. you don't realize it because you live in the bubble where new york and boston are the only cities in existence, but the rest of the country does.
>>21981Bullshit. What about the two years in between when they weren't the Champions? ESPN still covered them like they did the Yankees, In other words acting as if they are the only fucking teams that matter.But along with the fact that ESPN seems to have a huge boner for both the Red Sox and Yankees and basically doesn't care all that much for the other teams, it doesn't help matters that Red Sox fans are a bunch of hooting fuck nuts who won't shut the fuck up. They won the World Series twice in 4 seasons and now the fans thing every fan of every other team should get on their hands and knees and worship the Red Sox.Red Sox (and Boston team fans in general) can go fuck themselves for all I care.
>>21964This man has it right.
>>22002So since we have successful teams at the moment we can't get excited and talk up our teams?Some of us have been around since before 2004, you know.
It became cool after '04 and everyone suddenly because a life long die hard Red Sox fan.
>>22007WHEN THE BRONCOS WON TWO STRAIGHT SUPER BOWLS IN THE 90S AND I DIDN'T HEAR SHIT ABOUT IT
The Yankees are so yesterday and Hank can't stand it.
It became cool to hate the Red Sox when it became apparent that Red Sox fans are self-promoting douchebags.
>>22002Exactly. The play that Anaheim, Florida, Chicago, and St. Louis have gotten is NOTHING compared to the parade ESPN throws when Boston's won it. Every one of these years, the focus has been more toward the disappointment about the fact that New York and Boston haven't won it.
Because Red Sox fans think their championships are somehow more meaningful than everyone else's. WHY CAN'T YOU FEEL HAPPY FOR US? Because for most fans, any team that wins the World Series that isn't their favorite team can go eat a dick, 86 years or no.
I do not care. As long as the Yankees lose World Serieses. Every other team is awesome. Diamondbacks #1 amongst them. They got their shitty twin towers blown up, they got Bush and Giuliani throwing out balls, and they lost to Schilling and Johnson. Even funnier, Schilling stole moar World Serieses, and Johnson threw a couple.Let's get rid of NY.
>>22044also jeter is a big talentless fag of the type that NY loves.
>>220447/10
I don't have an issue with the Red Sox, even if they crushed my Tribe in the ALCS, I have a problem with the fanbase.They're pretentious. They take themselves way to seriously.They're un-loyal bandwagoners at best. I doubt a lot of 'Red Sox Nation' can't even name someone in their bullpen other then Papelbon if they even get that far. They like it because they're hot right now and it's stylish.They think that they're David and the Yankees are Goliath. 'Passion, not Payroll'. Bullshit. Who's number 2 in Payroll with a $130 mil PLUS? Real teams do it with less then 70 mil - Cleveland, Colorado.Media blows their cock.
A. Red Sox fans are incredibly obnoxious andB. Everyone is a bandwagon Red Sox fanHence, hate for the Red Sox
>>22048I hate the fact that the fans think that they're the smartest fans in baseball.
>>22048>Real teams ALMOST do it with less then 70 mil - Cleveland, Colorado.fix'd. I love the Sox, but when I was talking to friends who pride themselves on being Sox Fans (AKA obnoxious about it) I asked what they thought of the Sean Casey and Bartolo Colon pickups.They didn't know who they were. Fuck 'em.
>>22048shut up Clevelander, they are still David as long as Yankees overspend, and plz stop comparing the crappy Indians to Rockies or DBacks, they still spend way moar. Go and ignite yr river, ohiofag.
Red Sox fans have this unhealthy obsession with hating the Yankees. Seriously. They hate the Yankees more than they love their own team.
>>22062Who....and who?
>>22070That's another thing. "ARR WE HATE THE YANKEES!".OH REALLY!?! SO DOES EVERY OTHER FUCKING TEAM IN BASEBALL!! IT ISN'T JUST YOUR THING YOU FAGS
>>22065Red Sox are not David.Devil Rays are David, the MARLINS are fucking David, but not Red Sox.
its actually because they all hate me.
>>22048hey whoa, i understand where youre coming from, but you basically said all sox fans are like pathetic bandwagoners. i promise you we're not. and i also can promise you we know we're basically the Boston Yankees the way we throw money around. It's clear this ownership group is just as high on money as they are with winning, if not more so with money.
>>22065Indians: $61,673,267Rockies: $54,424,000D'backs: $52,067,546Red Sox: $143,526,214>way moar
>>22077Why's that?
>>22081Not saying that all Boston fans are - but a lot of them are.I'd say a majority, even.
>>22077They all hate Lucic
>>22083but give us the payroll of the Yankees v. Red Sox. jerk.
>>22084no fuck the celtics. games used to be so fun to go to, especially listening to the black fans talk about the game. now its all bandwagoners and its fucking boring as hell.
>>22089Fucking Krauts!
>>22089Y DOES THEY HAET ME :(
>>22097ur so tough
KNOCK IT OFF MILAN!
>>22084I am from Boston. I have not cared about the Celtics this season, last season, or any other season. I dislike basketball immensely. I COULD have hopped on the bandwagon, but I didn't.
>>22090nobody fucking cares. Yea, sure the Yankees have the most but the BoSox still have more than anyone else and are catching up to New York. Try winning a pennant with Milwaukee's salary, or Colorado's you fucking New Englander jerk-off.You guys always used to criticize how New York went out an bought championships, and you turn around and what do you do? Just pay millions for Lowell, Ramirez, Papi, Schilling, and pay out your ass just for the rights to talk to a guy from Japan.That's not fair baseball. You guys are just like the fucking Yankees now, you have become what you hate. Try developing a farm system too. Your entire fucking team is made up of trades and free agency. Besides Pedroia you don't have any good home-grown prospect you rich cocksuckers.
>>22108As a life long Celts fan I will say this...after getting the "Big 3" Holy shit....Celtics fans outta the woodwork. I used to get tickets cheap....now I just got ticket for 80 bucks a pop.Sickening.
>>22106sry coach, i'll get back to practice.
>>22116
>>22116LOL YOUNG 1 DOESNT KNOW THE WAYS OF THE BEAR.
>>22112Kevin Youkilis, Jacoby Ellsbury, Manny Delcarmen, Clay Buchholz, and Jed Lowerie would like to have a word with you
people hate the Sox because they're the best team in a broken league that plays a boring sport.
>>22123>boring sportgb2/england
help....
>>22090red sox: $143,526,214yankees: $195,229,045($51,702,831 or 36% higher than boston's)indians: $61,673,267red sox: $143,526,214($81,852,947 or 133% higher than cleveland's)
>>22125I'm not even English, but fuck man, at least people MOVE in soccer.
>>22127OH SHIT WE GOT A MAN DOWN, EVERYONE HUDDLE UP!!
>>22133*VROOOOOOOOOOOM*
>>22138hey guys i slipped on a puck and needed surgery.
>>22143oh how I lol'd
>>22145HAHA TIMMY SLIPPED ON THE BANANA PEAL - JUST AS PLANNED.
>>22151dude thats Manny Fernandez
>>22153haha, i think we just spotted a bandwagoner, who cant even remember the glory games (or should i say game vs NYR) of manny fernandez.
dude it's Manny Fernandez
>>22169
>>22169KICK HIS ASS, SEABASS!
OP Here,Most of you retarded. I've been a fan since birth.>Everyone who isn't wearing a pink hat has been a LIFE LONG RED SOX FAN.You guys just live in shitty towns where it's unthinkable that millions of people could be lifelong fans.
>>22750Congrats, good for you. Too bad the rest of your Nation just jumped on the bandwagon the other year.DKM is still a good band, though. I just skip over Tessie.
>>22753I'm telling you I've been going to games for about 15 years (i'm 25), and there were always alot of serious fans.
>>22763And I'm not telling you there aren't, I'm just saying that since their WS a few years back there has been a fever of fans that have absolutely no idea about baseball, they do it because it's stylish. All cities have them, but Boston has it the worst.Add that to the fact that all Bostonians are fucking jackasses in the first place, and there you have it - why America always has hated the Red Sox.
>>22763the fact that there was EVER a period that fenway couldn't sell out its 33,000 seats for every game proves that there aren't millions of life-long, die-hard fans.
>>22770Large city+33,000 is rather chump for a baseball stadium.Face it, Soxfag, your 'Nation' is full of bangwagon fuckers who think they are Irish. Admit it - you know it's true.
>>22771that was exactly my point. i'm not a soxfag.
>>22772What was your point? That it's even MORE pathetic that the Sox can't sell out 33,000 seats when it has a HUGE city and 33,000 is small as hell?Soxfag, you're diggin' a hole.
>>22773i might be getting trolled here, but i was making the case AGAINST the boston "lol we're all die hard" fans.
>>22776I was commenting on how even more pathetic it was, the Soxfag remark wasn't towards you. The second post you made just confused the hell out of me.
It's 39,000.
>>22782Still rather small for baseball.
>>22785The park was built when the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, what the fuck do you want?
People hate the Red Sox because they copied the slimy tactic of completely overpaying to consolidate all the talent they can that made the Yankees so hated, but unlike Yankees fans hold the delusion that everyone should be happy for Red Sox. Outside of your core fan base and the members of your bandwagon who haven't jumped off yet, nobody gives a shit about your team, and this attitude just throws more fuel on the fire.Also, anybody who really believes in curses needs to be shot.
>>22753DKM is a good band. However, due to the 2004 world series, the movie departed, and general morons overplaying other songs, i have to skip tessie, shipping up to boston, and the state of massachusetts as the fact that it gets played here every 5 fucking minutes. jesus.
>>22829Shipping Up To Boston is a good song, State of Mass. is good, hell, the entire Meanest of Times albums is great outside of the Jailbreak cover.I heard they're played every other song on Boston rock stations, though.
>>22833yeah both songs are awesome but not only are they played every other song on the radio, everytime i try to go out somewhere or even visit someones myspace that song is on there ad eventually it gets hella annoying, which sucks cuz i love DKM.
>>22848yah brah theyre so cash
>>22848I'm in Boston and it's not really played that much.
Because it was fun for all non-New Englanders to make fun for Sox for sucking all those long, painful years. Now that they have good ownership/management/farm system and deep pockets, they BAWWWWW that they're actually a good team now.Also, Yankees suck.
>>22853I never hear those songs unless I'm in a bar downtown, or on a Sox radio/tv broadcast.
>>22782no, 33,000.
>>22782Until 2004 I think (?) it was between 33k and 34k.
>>22853true it has tuned down a bit, at least on the radios.im just glad not alotta spanish people like their music, its so annoying sitting on the orange line (aka the congo ruise) and hearing those spics force us to listen to their shitty music
>>21955Actually, people LIKING the Red Sox is the second biggest bandwagon to develop behind the Cubs. People <3 losers. That being said, I don't specifically hate the Sox, I hate all Boston teams. Boston has a "we're better than you in every way" feel to it, that makes it all the better when shit blows up in their faces. 18-1 lolol.
>>22977Had I known what the outcome of the Super Bowl would be, I would have driven all the way to Boston just to be at a sports bar there when it happened.
>>22977We are, though, is the thing. Also, eat a dick.
Almost every city begins to go through this when A) They're teams start winning and B) Those teams' fans become obnoxious assholes about it (Obviously some of these are bandwagoners, but some diehards are too). It's what Yankeefags were so easy to hate in the 90's into today, many Bostonfags this decade, and so on. There are also cities such as Toronto and Cleveland, who don't win jack shit yet are so easy to hate because well, theyre just as retarded as bandwagoners.tl;dr shit happens, don't get offended by their insults, enjoy glory while it lasts.
>>2298918-1
>>2297718-1 made the entire nation LOL at you fags.
I wish I could just build a huge wall around Boston and fill it with water.
If people loved losers, wouldn't the Pirates be the most popular MLB team in the league? 15 losing seaons in a row, folks.
Just the fact most citizens from that area have such a douche-ass and self pride attitude is annoying, and you can't forget that damn accent.
>>23266Not to mention that every single one of those assholes thinks they're some kind of 3rd generation Irish immigrant.
>>22977please the cowboys are biggest bandwagon in sports the minute they are even remotely in the hunt for a title million of new fans appear out nowhere
The thing is everyone wanted those crying faggots to win in '04 since they hadn't one a damn thing since 1908. Now that they've won another one, the fucking fans parade around like they fucking own the league. Quite honestly now, i wish some of those oldfags wouldve died without seeing that team win another championship. Fuck the Yankees also. Im always happy when someone wins besides those two circle-jerking markets.
People wouldn't hate the Red Sox if their bandwagon fans weren't collosal douchebags.
>>23266But that's not really true. Just because there are loud red sox fans who are assholes doesn't mean that all red sox fans are so. Go fist your mother.
>>23280Learn2math.ITT: Jealousy.
>>23306Your pre-bandwagon fanbase was built on the jealousy of the Yankees.
I"m gonna start rooting for a really fail team so I never become an asshole.Go Pirates.
>>23315No. Hating the yankees was a BONUS to loving the Red Sox.
>>23279thats true, as im a cowboys fan
>>23306no one gives a fuck. we all just know they hadn't one anything in a FUCKload time.