The pox is on both houses, not just one up north

Doug:
I really like Bob Ryan and all but this dumping on Red Sox fans is totally fallacious.

 

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Mike:
Yeah, Ryan's sports knowledge is so deep that he's probably forgotten more about baseball than I'll ever know, but his idea that only Red Sox fan behavior is boorish while all things Yankees fan related are gilded with sang froid is so absurd it's laughable.

 

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Doug:
Seriously, the notion of the noble Yankees fans is about as credible as the primitivist's myth of the North American Indians sitting around smoking peace pipes and getting all lovey dovey with nature.

 

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Mike:
Maybe it's time for Ryan to climb down from the self-centered prism of his lofty press box and actually sit among the great unwashed in The Stadium to get a healthy dose of realism.

 

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Doug:
Absolutely. Then he can discovah the irony implicit in his theory that Yankees fans have "othah things on their minds besides the Red Sox."

 

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Mike:
Yeah, those Yankees fans are just so classy.

 

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Comments

[Bob]

BTW, my new plan for Saturday is to meet my buddy at The Crossroads(basically the corner of Beacon and Mass. Ave.).

1:30 if anybody wants to meet up. We'll probably go to the Baseball Tavern eventually. And the sausage cart outside Gate B of course.

I'll be wearing my Mothra shirt and a shit-eating grin.

Have a great weekend everyone. Especially Mssrs. Schilling, Beckett and Mothra.

[Bob]

H.B., my co-worker right next to me wants to buy a "Let Jim In" shirt, but hates white. Rascist.

Any chance to reverse the Jim-face out of a black shirt?

[h.b.]

Bob,

I don't do the Jim Rice shirt. That's regular reader and commenter da kine and his bro's biz.

Follow the link via the shirt ad and drop him a line with your request.

[The Barmaid Blog]

Uh, thanks for the link, I think. ;-) Good luck to the Sox - and go Yankees!

[Bob]

No way you're getting the last word, barmaid...Let's go Red Sox! (Clap-clap, clap-clap-clap).

[h.b.]

Glad your story was there, Barmaid.

And BTW per your blog post today, didn't think that the incident made you any less of a Yanks fan or of going to game at The Stadium.

Just needed an example that, yes, Yankees fans can be every bit as bad as Red Sox fans. (And as good, too.)

Was actually searching for a story I'd read on a blog last year or the year before about a guy and his girlfriend, both Red Sox fans, attending a game in NY and getting really, really hassled and where the things said to the woman were just horrible.

But I couldn't find that one and found yours instead.

Now this dreaming about Jason Giambi... Ohmyfuckingchrist.

You know the steroid juice creates some unpleasant side effects, er, downtown right?

[da kine]

I can handle that one, Bob: we can't. The shirts are all silk-screen and mass produced. We were originally going to go for a red shirt with a blue Jim, or a black shirt with a white Jim, but they just didn't work. For whatever reason, it's hard to tell who "Jim" is with those color schemes. Shoot me an e-mail for further discussion.

"Let Jim In" has been selling so well (thanks to the intartube-clogging blogad) that we're doing another run, with women's sizes, too. Those should be ready in the near future.

[da kine]

Oh, info -at- kintees.com. I didn't realize my e-mail doesn't show up.

[Bob]

Thanks, da kine. I understand the production contraints. I'm gonna order one anyway. H.B., just got another plain Soxaholix shirt. My last one has too many Sausage and Sirachai stains to be presentable in polite society.

(If BigBri hadn't been put up in a basement hospital by a massive coronary, he would have made a sausage stain joke by now.)

[soxdownunder]

Well, in deference to Mr Ryan's sensibilies can I just say this: good luck to those fine young chaps from the New York (American League) Ball Club over the weekend. I hope the New England weather stays fine for them, that the Boston fans show them generous hospitality and that they all play to their full potential. May the best team win. Perhpas that nice young Alex fellow might stay on track for the all time home run record.

Nah, fuck it, JETER BLOWS!! YANKEES SUCK!! SLAPPY'S A GIRL!! GIAMBI'S A FAT DRUG CHEAT!!! BURY 'EM SOX!!

[The Barmaid Blog]

h.b.: Who cares about any "downtown" side effects? Perhaps you haven't actually read what my Giambi dreams are usually about. :-)

[Red Sox Super Fan]

I couldn't ahgree more. I actually used to sit behind Bob Ryan as a kid. he sat amongst us, and I seem to remember him cheering and getting emotional about the games. Perhaps I was mistaken and he was always like this. Or perhaps he is mistaken about the rivalry being ruined. It exists, and we are all into it. How can it be ruined when the power is so strong?

[soxdownunder]

Oka-jima san
When Papelbon needs relief
Was really awesome.

Oh and my little boy said 'Let's go Red Sox' for the first time during the 8th inning rally.

SWEET!

[Kaz]

When the game mattered,
Dink fly to Alex Cora.
Mister April shines.

[birthofasoxfan97]

Soxdownunder - that is gold! That was some beautiful baseball. Can't wait for tomorrow...what do you bet we have a Saturday strip?

[birthofasoxfan97]

about your kiddo, I mean. Haiku's good too, but nothing beats when your kids are into the game...

[soxdownunder]

bosf97 - THANKS!

[Rob in CT]

"I don't mind being a hero in the dark" -- H. Okajima

I don't mind you being in the glaring lights of Sox-Yanks in Fenway. Well done, Hideki!

And Alex Cora - two nights in a row. Damn, son, you looking for a permanent gig or something? That game had all the drama that is the best of the Rivalry. I was actually jumping up and down in my kitchen when Thopson struck out. My wife thinks I'm an idiot.

SDU - great bit of Haiku! You have the gift.

[Harwich Rich]

8.44 ERA-gotta be some kind of record :D

[Kaz]

I have never experienced the ear-to-ear glee as I have from hoarding schadenfreude by reading the Yankee blog comments tonight.

You have to scroll back through them to find A-Rod's second homer (that Coco dives into the bullpen after). They are smug and brassy, giving imaginary Sox fan readers tons of crap about Coco vs. Damon.

Then to watch them implode and blaim everyone from the ump, to Torre's bullpen management, to the bullpen itself, to Dougie Eyechart, to Torre's lineup management (ultimately removing the bat from Giambi's hands to end the game)....

"worst. game. ever"...
"well now were gonna be 4 games down coming out of this series..."

I feel like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos.

[soxdownunder]

Kaz, that is so-o sick! The 'lamendation' of their women. Oh my..

[Kaz]

It's just fancy words for "...watch A-Rod cry".

[SoxSweepAgain]

WHAT AN ASS! (Ryan).

ASS!!!!

[Janus]

I don't how many of the comments to the lovely Barmaid you read, but I doubt that even the most diehard Yankee fan would say anything in support of those jerks she encountered. (Me, I'm an Astros fan.)

[Meliss]

I am from out of state and the only tickets I could find are Sec. 23 row 10, seats 20 & 21. One says obstructed view. Is anyone familiar with these seats and can you tell me is that ticket directly behind a pole? I called and the ticket sales people couldn't tell me for sure.