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The Bandwagon
You cannot even safely punch a guy wearing a "B" cap on the street anymore... he doesn't know what it stands for, he just knows that it is trendy. Do you know what they call a star whose time in the spotlight has faded? They call him a B-List celebrity. That is what the B is for... Bandwagon. And even the hardcore fans squabble about the pink hats and Fever Pitch tourists who don't know who Grady Little is.
1918
Goddamn it I miss shouting that simple, catch-all retort.
2004 ALDS Umpiring
Umpire Jerry Meals had season seats in Fenway and squeezed a Bartolo Colon masterpiece in game 2 down to a 3-K affair... Can you say Black Sox please? Had it been the reverse and Bahstin's 9 suffered such a potentially felonious defrauding, there would have been congressional hearings called.
Ben Affleck
Ha! I will take "no celebrity spokesperson in the stands" over that.
ESPN Fawning
It started off as their Jeter-love having a dark side and now they lead off every episode of SportsCenter with a Kevin Youkilis skull-waxing update (next razor swipe scheduled for Wednesday!). Massachusetts, have you no shame?
Theo Epstein Worship
Funny how every team with a budget near Theo's wins 90+ games a year when they stay healthy, but somehow this makes the golden child alone a genius. Billy Beane needs to sue for superlatives copyright infringement.
George Mitchell
A member of the Red Sox Board of Directors investigates steroid use in baseball and finds everyone was terrible except the men on his very own team. After everyone had been sullied and the game forever tarnished, once everyone was sick and tired of it all, oh then... then comes Manny and Papi and of course, all the Nation can do is whine that everyone else did it. A gross manipulation of the evidence to protect the corporate brand.
...and speaking "The Nation"... THE NATION
No marketing scheme, be it a Rally Monkey, thundersticks, dollar hot dog Wednesdays... no marketing scheme is as lame as one that attempts to mimic National Socialism in the name of selling jerseys, hats and teeshirts. If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, "The Nation" is the tacky souvenir shop at the train depot of that final refuge.
Dan Shaughnessy
Seriously... get a haircut you puffy girly man. Mike Lupica is J.D. Salinger standing next to this clown.
Yankee Syndrome Blindness
The more the Red Sox have won this decade, the more the team and their fans have morphed into a mimickry of Yankees fans - arrogant, spoiled by success, oblivious to 28 other teams in the league, and self-assured they are "baseball-educated" when they don't even know the history of Pumpsie Green breaking Mister Yawkey's apartheid. They have become the thing that they hate most - Red Sox Nation has become the A-Rod of baseball fans: Chumps who assume that they are to be adored by all for their inherent (virtue?), when in reality they are blinded by the arrogance of lucking into a good run.
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Yankee Syndrome Blindness
They are bigger douche bags. Winning has made them ugly, and turned them into the very thing they hate.
hauldog - October 6, 2009
#11
They have owned us, for various reasons, in the playoffs.
They’ve beaten us when we were the better team and they’ve beaten us when they were the better team. Clearly, we are the better team this year and it way past the time when this needs to made clear to all the Red Sox sycophants out there.
Match Day 5 - October 6, 2009
2004 & 2007
i think they were the better team
SCHalo - October 6, 2009
Match
my bad…i shouldn’t try to post and talk on the phone at the same time. ignore my reply.
SCHalo - October 6, 2009
I've got a 6mo old whose usually on me when I'm typing.
I know where you’re comin’ from.
Match Day 5 - October 6, 2009
I am study all match of these teams and and on phone to my all friends all time
highlandhalo - October 6, 2009
most luminous
princeton11loveshalos - October 6, 2009
How's their resistance power?
Clutch - October 6, 2009
CHURN BABY CHURN
Rev Halo’s Inferno
CHURN BABY CHURN
Beat those Sux Fans Down !
Dono Romantico - October 6, 2009
OT: MLB Premium comes with Postseason
AWESOME
Slyintine - October 6, 2009
TBS hot corner sucks.
Can I get a TV feed
hauldog - October 6, 2009
New seating signs proposed for the BIG A...
3rd Echelon - October 6, 2009
And then mount them next to the toilets.
Downing Rules - October 6, 2009
Mount them next to Anaheim Stadium jail
highlandhalo - October 7, 2009
some reasons I hate'm (in no order)
1. They had a video of their rivalry against the yankees on the video board (on repeat) during the 2007 WORLD F’N SERIES with the star wars music and everything. From what I remembered they weren’t playing in the yankees in the world series, but i might be wrong…HA! Talk about leaving a sickening feeling in your mouth. For those of you who want to know why i went – if you were offered world series tickets wouldn’t you go – no matter who played?
2. They don’t wear the team colors to games. Remember the sea of red in 02 and in 08 (well red and white), they hardly wear their team colors.
3. They feel they are too good for rally towels-maybe they would have worked in those 86 years.
4. Perdroia looks like “that” guy in college and h.s. who thought he was too good for everyne
5. Steriods – complaining that everyone was attacking them (see Mitchell report as Rev Halofan gave above)
6. The bandwagon. Did a great one in 2005 playoffs to a yankees fan. She was living on my floor wearing a jeter jersey. I asked her who the 2nd basemen was – she didn’t know.
7. ESPN, TBS, and FOX – granted i know more people would watch a red sox game and drive up advertising prices, but for once i would like to see a game besides whoever is playing the Red Sox, Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers. (Heck the ALCS Champs only got coverage against them)
8. The Curse – like the guy on NBC to Brady – stop wearing a skirt. I don’t see Cubs fans complaining about a curse – only tv says it.
9. Yankee haters – look in the mirror
That is only a few
Halos in DE - October 6, 2009
Here are some pictures and tell me it is the red sox colors
Just to show a few.
Halos in DE - October 6, 2009
YEAH.......
Burn down Fenway!!!!!!!!!
norcaliangelsfan - October 6, 2009
I disagree with that.
MidwayCityLivestock - October 8, 2009
I just don't like the
“my dad once went to Boston for business and bought me a hat so I followed the Red Sox”
or
“my great uncle lives in Pawtucket, so I like the Red Sox.”
or the absolute worst
“yeah… my family is from rhode island/connecticut/vermont/new hampshire/maine so i follow the Red Sox/Yankees/Mets (depending on the year)”
and those are actually excuses I’ve heard from 3 different people (connecticut being the state).
BruinHalo - October 6, 2009
Yeah I know some Connecticut people. All but 1 are Yankee fans. The 1 is a Sux fan.
Monkeyspanked - October 6, 2009
Or I caught a connection in Logan
hauldog - October 6, 2009
I think we know where I stand!
YOUKLIS is the biggest baby in baseball. I could hate the Red Sux just for having him on their team. Let alone the tons of other reasons.
Monkeyspanked - October 6, 2009
Papelbon cant stand him
neither can i stand Beckett and Pedroia
Angels_48 - October 6, 2009
I hate all of them
But I would have Beckett and Pedroia on the Angels. They would fit in.
highlandhalo - October 7, 2009
Angel Diaspora
As an angels fan from North OC going to college in Massachusetts, I gotta say, I love this list, my freshman year here was 07 Angels 0 Sox 3, then Sophomore in 08 Angels 1 Sox 3, I hope this year its something different but I gotta say. This list is amazing.
I was at the Fenway game where the umps forgot how to call strikes and all I remember thinking is how easy it is to be a Red Sox fan. They all still feel like they are the underdogs of 04 the team that usurped the Goliath Yankees and did it the clean way. They shudder at the notion of Ortiz and Manny and the rest of that team being on steroids even though even Bill Simmons has written that it is quite probable they were. They mock the Angels for being commercialized and using cheesy gimmicks like the rally monkey when there are 10 vendors in a 2 block radius around fenway selling hats that range in color from purple to green to pink. They pride themselves on history, just not the racist parts of it, which they might know of but choose to ignore. They idolize about Ted Williams without realizing that he was absolutely crazy. They comment that the yankees bought championships but did it themselves.
It makes me sad they beat the Yankees in 04 despite rooting for them.
God I hate Boston…..
ItCouldHappen - October 6, 2009
You have succinctly stated why I despise the sux.
halofolife - October 6, 2009
man
why did u go to school in mass. I would have gone crazy if i made that decision.
princeton11loveshalos - October 6, 2009
To paraphrase Ian Faith: Boston's not a big college town.
Brew Angel - October 6, 2009
I'd have loved to have been able to go to college in Mass.
Four words:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
red floyd - October 6, 2009
i have friends at MIT
Cal Tech sounds nice to me too.
PS. I suck at science
princeton11loveshalos - October 6, 2009
I'd have loved to have been able to go to MIT, too.
Because that would mean that I would have been smart enough to qualify for CalTech, which is where I would have chosen.
Stirrups - October 6, 2009
Ted Williams was a nutjob
But let’s not forget the service that he did for our country as a fighter pilot not only in World War II but also in Korea.
Plus apparently his frozen head has been beaten to shit in some cryo-lab somewhere.
Let’s let the Williams hatred go please.
highlandhalo - October 7, 2009
ESPN is just mad that they aren't on the West Coast.
even though they have a station in L.A. now. They are mad because there are just to many things to do here and I guess the east coast is just bland. In the words of the famous poet Tupac “California knows how to party.”
SenorChuckles - October 6, 2009
Thnaks Rev
This pretty much sums it up.
I’d also like to add the analysts’ contiuously telling us how smart Varitek is and how he is singularly responsible for any success enjoyed by Red Sox pitchers (without mentioning that he is batting .134 and throws out only 8% of would be base stealers)
Ajax - October 6, 2009
but he handles the "staff" so well..........
you cant put a price on that.
norcaliangelsfan - October 6, 2009
Zing!!!
halofolife - October 6, 2009
mathis cough cough
what!?!?!?!
princeton11loveshalos - October 6, 2009
I was going in a different direction with "staff"
if you’re picking up what Im putting down. ;-)
norcaliangelsfan - October 6, 2009
Eeeww...
Clutch - October 6, 2009
wow
i can’t believe i didnt catch that. I love it
princeton11loveshalos - October 6, 2009
He also frames his pitchers' balls quite nicely
Gorbachav5 - October 6, 2009
framesfondlesHigz - October 6, 2009
sorry, i couldn’t help it
Higz - October 6, 2009
I love Bill Simmons
but his Sox will burn!
Scotty G - October 6, 2009
F Simmons
If I see him at the Big A I will “accidentally” spill a beer on him.
hauldog - October 6, 2009
heh heh just found this on 20 rules for being a true fan by Simmons
To Paraphrase: Just because you rooted for a team that won a championship, it doesn’t give you the right to turn into a pompous, insufferable schmuck. Remember this."
ItCouldHappen - October 6, 2009
Nice
Evidently they don’t read him in Boston. Evidently he forgot this also
hauldog - October 6, 2009
I don't need 10 reasons to hate them
just one.
RexTookMyStash - October 6, 2009
sphincter lips!
i laughed out loud
RexTookMyStash - October 6, 2009
It's hard to pick which one is the bigger clown
JoseGuillenSux - October 6, 2009
Dan Shaughnessy, clown.
Ass-Clown.
(Of course, we have beat writers who wear toupee’s or think kidnapping is a good leadoff into a sports column…who’s counting though.)
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - October 6, 2009
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - October 6, 2009
Papelbum is quite a materpiece isn't he?
HALO N BRIMSTONE - October 6, 2009
I dont hate Ortiz
he seems like a good natured, light hearted guy. He really showed his class after the Angels-Sux series in mid april. The rest can all go to hell.
anaheim angels - October 6, 2009
Not to mention
The magical bat he gave Vlad during the derby. Can’t hate Papi after that.
BruinHalo - October 6, 2009 via mobile
Plus he called out the blues for their pro-Sux calls.
red floyd - October 6, 2009
I am a Papi fan in ways
That steroid thing tainted it a bit and was disappointing, but he’s otherwise a classy class-act so far as I can see.
Clutch - October 6, 2009
I agree
His stock went up quite a bit when he asked to visit with Adenhart’s father after the accident. Pretty classy.
WiHaloFan - October 7, 2009
It's so easy to hate a team full of admitted cheaters:
ManRam, Big Poopi and Bronson; what a bunch of pariahs.
HALO N BRIMSTONE - October 6, 2009
1986.....the year I started hating these Bozos .
Ed@northridge - October 6, 2009
yo forgot the one i hate the most
Beckett
princeton11loveshalos - October 6, 2009
A brief Boston Red Sox history lesson.
1. The last team to allow African American players.
2. Originally attributed their miserable World Series drought to a “curse”
3. Broke said “curse” by shoving HGH needles in their asses.
Climb on board the bandwagon, tools. I wouldn’t want anything to do with this history.
Teixeira Who? - October 6, 2009
Top ten things I hate about the Red Sox list is too easy
I’d like to see an Angels fan draw up a 10 things to like about the Red Sox list. I tried…couldn’t get to 1.
linkbruin - October 6, 2009
i gotta say
1. Fenway is a beautiful park
2. They provide the angels with somewhat of a rivalry since no one in the AL west can
3. I like some of their guys, i mean Dusty and Jacoby might wreck was but I like their style as far as 1 and 2 hitters go
4. While in retrospect it was quite overrated watching them beat the yankees in 04 was pretty epic in the eyes of sports fans
5. a. Without them there would most likely be even more Yankees fans since New England would most likely root for a New York team
or b. Could have been Expos fans meaning the Expos might have had enough money to keep guerrero in 03 (total stretch I know).
Well I got 5…..
ItCouldHappen - October 6, 2009
counter points
1. Fenway seats suck. Not a very comfortable stadium for the average man.
2. Texas was more competitive this year and made it tougher this year.
3. I really don’t like any of their players. I mean maybe Martinez but thats because he’s new.
4. I mean I was rooting for them in 04 but then they turned into that kid in school who used to be unpopular and was your friend. But then your friend became popular and a douche who thinks he owns the school.
5. As much as I don’t like the yankees, they are not as annoying as red sox fans. I got my daily dosage of both and trust me I would prefer a yankee fan
princeton11loveshalos - October 6, 2009
counterpoints accepted
I was writing from my own personal experiences, i mean all of those are obviously certain aspects that not everyone has to like, but i like them and think they are valid
ItCouldHappen - October 6, 2009
Other counters
1. The park does have a great history and really does feel encapsulated in another time. However, the sight lines are awful, and they have the highest percentage of obstructed seats in the MLB.
2. I always like to think of the A’s as a rival.
3. I like David Ortiz for what he represents outside baseball (great person, friendly, seems like a fun guy) rather than what he represents playing the game (never plays the field, steroids). Pedroia bugs the shit out of me.
4. I’ll admit it: I pulled for them to beat the Yankees in ‘03 and ’04.
5. All the Yankee fans I’ve met knew the game and respected the Angels. There’s still the token d-bag just walking around in a NY hat, but I still prefer them to Sawx fans. This seemed the opposite in the late ’90s though.
linkbruin - October 7, 2009
Agreed on preferring the Yankees fan
highlandhalo - October 7, 2009
Say what you will about national socialism, Rev
But at least it’s an ethos.
RallyMonkey5 - October 7, 2009
You need a reason to hate them?
red floyd - October 7, 2009
LA - BOSOX
Who cares ? Are we still in the sixth grade ??? It’s just a friggin game played by overpaid shrunken testicle steroid using babies
TEDW - October 7, 2009
dont ever call baseball "just a friggin game"
Sorbo182 - October 7, 2009
Hey, if I were an Angels fan I'd hate the Red Sox, too
LOSERS
DMID - October 7, 2009
I thought trolls were just imaginary creatures
Thanks for clearing that up
linkbruin - October 7, 2009
You went through the trouble of creating an account...
just to post that?
That’s the best you got??
WiHaloFan - October 7, 2009
It's rare that
Godwin’s Law is violated by the lead editor of a blog.
0157H7 - October 7, 2009
I wanted a Godwin shoutout
took you
brownshirtsinbreds long enough.Rev Halofan - October 7, 2009
We should ask mattwelch
WIkipedia tells me that Reason magazine did an article about Godwin’s Law in 2005 thus making him the Godwin’s Law authority.
BruinHalo - October 9, 2009
Another Reason
Only way I’ll be able to watch tonight is if I start drinking right now. LOL Signed “Waaaay too nervous in Huntington Beach!!”
NJinHB - October 8, 2009
I have 3 more reasons...
1) Papelbon
2) Beckett
3) Schilling
whats the deal with Boston picthers? why do they have so many self-absorbed douches???
2pintsofbooze - October 9, 2009
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