Guide to being a fan of Boston sports

[ghostrunner]

The fact that "Fever Pitch" was filmed at Busch while the Red Sox had their pileup is enough to put the DVD behind hydrochloric acid on the list of things I want to touch.

The aggravating thing there is the Cardinals had to give permission for it ahead of time.

[ghostrunner]

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2004-2005: This was the real clincher. Dated a girl from 2003-2005 whose entire family loved the "Sawx". They came from Boston. From the time we got together there was some ribbing back and forth, but it actually got annoying after the World Series. I may have been being sensitive at the time, but her dad kept making sure to rub my nose in the fact that the Sox swept my team every time I saw him. That went on until June of 2005. I actually went down to St. Louis with them to watch the Cards/Sox interleague matchup. I just wanted to watch some baseball, but the guy was a total jerk to me from the time the car left omaha until the time we got back. He was also being a typical loud and obnoxious new englander at Busch and getting into it with basically every cardinals fan sitting in our section. He kept loudly talking about the "inferior" st. louis cardinals and how they were irrelevant because the red sox made them into jokes and how all the "losers" at busch were beating their chests about winning a meaningless june series. It was so embarrasing having to sit with this dude who was getting into shouting matches with dozens of Cardinals fans. He made no friends there. Also, I like ST. Louis in and of itself and he kept walking around talking about how boring it was and how I should come out to the east coast to see what a real city is like. I was so annoyed with him but couldn't tear into him because I was with his daughter. When we got home we basically never spoke again. Just a loud, arrogant, ugly person. His daughter and I broke up a month later. I could have never been a part of that family.

Dude, you're a freakin' saint.

When I lived in North Carolina, the whole "yankee" thing used to annoy me. My family moved down from Indiana, and we heard that a time or two. Never maliciously, just passive aggressively, which is the Southern way. But then over the years, I met some of the Northeasterners who left their beloved metropolises for the better weather in the south, yet they couldn't stop comparing it unfavorably to their hometowns. I grew to understand where the yankee dislike came from.

[Hudler]

Calling someone a "yankee" is a polite way of insulting them for southerners. I've corrected more than one Englishman when they've called me that,after all,I might be from Missouri but I do come from the Little Dixie region of the state.

[OmahaCard79]

The fact that "Fever Pitch" was filmed at Busch while the Red Sox had their pileup is enough to put the DVD behind hydrochloric acid on the list of things I want to touch.

The aggravating thing there is the Cardinals had to give permission for it ahead of time.

Yeah, I kinda liked the plot, but the fact that it came out fresh off the Cardinals loss and actually celebrates that loss was enough to ruin it for me. It's too bad. I can kinda identify with the plot (not to those extremes though), but it's just too painful.

I wonder if the red sox would have given permission to film at fenway if a movie was being made about the cards and they were about to wrap it up in boston?

[Radbird]

I wonder if the red sox would have given permission to film at fenway if a movie was being made about the cards and they were about to wrap it up in boston?

As the Geico therapist would say - "well, that wouldn't make any sense to me..."

[GatewaySnayke]

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3. N-B-A? What's that?

Perhaps someone can elighten me--exactly what is St. Louis missing by NOT having the overhyped, over-produced, no-defense, me-first, dirty-referee, traveling-happy, unwatchable DRECK that is today's NBA??? The sport played by guys named Cousy, Russell, Robertson, Reed, Chamberlain, McCauley, West, Bird, Johnson, and Jabbar ceased to exist about 20 years ago...

This is my first post in this thread (how did I miss it?) and I know Steve was probably maybe sort of being tongue-in-cheek, but St. Louis sports fans have no incentive to watch the NBA. This city is simply not big enough to support four major sports and there is no way people would have the money to buy NBA tickets AND Blues tickets AND Billikens tickets. Plus, the NBA is a really bad joke. It won't be long until "Poker After Dark" is outdrawing the NBA Finals. More on the Celts fans later...

Furthermore, no New England Patriot fan has any GD right to call St. Louis Rams fans on being bandwagoners. That is outright freaking ridiculous. Kudos to the fans in this city for not giving their money to a franchise that employs or employed people like Claude Terrell. Patriots football didn't even EXIST until Parcells stepped into that town and you'll be hard-pressed to find any of them that can actually name who the coach was before Parcells. And the awful truth about Patriots football? Once the Belichick-Brady tandem ceases to be, they will go back to being nothing. Boston is a Red Sox town first and foremost and all the bandwagoners of the current Pats era will also cease to be.

Now, no Boston fan can say about St. Louis fans "The NBA? What's that?" when they weren't even a hot ticket in their heyday! I have it on pretty good authority from a Boston-area resident that the Celtics weren't exactly the big thing we think they were. Besides the huge difference in population, St. Louis and Boston sports fans aren't that different. The baseball teams come first and when the other teams are good, they'll get attention, too.

[MrCrowesGarden]

From a fantasy message board I visit, by a Red Sox fan:

Cards fans should be hoping the Sox win tonight..
This way they won't be the only team to be embarrassed in WS

This is why they can bother me. You're within three innings of winning a World Series, and all you can do is bring up 2004 like a d-bag? Can't you just be happy for the Red Sox?

[clevername]

because the Cards were the first and only team to be swept in the World Series.

[GatewaySnayke]

So, has anyone ordered their Pedroia jersey yet? That guy is the new Mark Prior.

[Popeye_Card]

So, has anyone ordered their Pedroia jersey yet? That guy is the new Mark Prior.

Did you see his postgame interview? He said something to the effect that "whoever didn't believe in us, look at us now!" What? Who didn't believe in the Red Sox? Maybe when they were down 3-1 to the Indians, but that's to be expected about any team down 3-1 in a series. How can the Red Sox possibly play the "disrespected" card?

Keep in mind that I always hate the disrespected thing. I didn't like it when Cardinals fans (and the team) played it last fall. Just enjoy winning people. I don't really see the need to feel that the win justifies anything.

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