Shockingly, there's a Sox site out there that says the Rays don't deserve their trip to the World Series and that's why you should root for the Phillies. I love this kind of stuff after a team loses. Nothing brings out the true class of a fan base like this.From the post:
The Rays? Let's just say they haven't exactly earned this as yet. That shiny new team merchandise you saw those 15 year old kids and 70 year old Grandparents wearing at 'the Trop' (can you believe they are going to hold series games at that monstrosity?) will be on show again. Endless shots of spotty faced Tampa teens sporting brand new Rays caps with the silver MLB merchandise label still shining bright on them, yeah that's a fan base alright.
Ah, yes, because nobody bought shiny new Red Sox caps after they won in 2004, right? And why do the Rays not deserve to win even if you think their fans aren't legit?
Oh, there's more:
At the end of the day, when all is said and done, I am not prepared to live in a world where people like BJ Upton, Jamie Navarro, Matt Garza or the arrogant, ignorant Aussie Grant Balfour are king. Maddon, Pena and Crawford certainly come across as classy guys, however those mentioned initially have a little bit of learning to do before they come across as anything but punk, spoilt, brash NBA star types.
For starters, "at the end of the day" and "when all is said and done" are hoary, cliches used by mouth-breathers. You used both meaningless space-fillers to start your sentance because you think it made your sound more worldly. You're a shitty writer. Now, as to your assertion in that paragraph... well, seriously? You're "not prepared" to live in that world? Well, you might want to get prepared.
And a Sox fan -- a fan of guys like Jonathan Papelbon -- claming the Rays players are "arrogant" is kind of laughable. And they have "a little bit of learning to do"? They won the division from your precious Sox this season, took 10 of 18 against the Sox in the regular season, held off the two regular winners of the AL East all season and then just beat the Sox in seven games, under intense pressure at the end... to get there. What more do they have to do to gain your respect?
Thing is, I imagine this kind of Sox blogger is the exception rather than the norm. From the short perusing I've done, most of them seem like you'd expect a vanquished team's fans to be -- disappointed, but not upset at their team or at losing to a good club like the Rays. So I don't think this guy is the norm or represents all Sox fans -- I just noticed the link to him on Deadspin and thought it was worth pointing out how pouty he was being.
[UPDATE: Yikes, just read this one, too.
Oh and as for the World Series, I'm throwing my support behind the Phillies... here's hoping the Phils give the Rays some unholy hell. Especially that punk-ass Carl Crawford, who you know is just an injury away from boosting car stereos.
Wow, that's not racist or anything.]
5 comments:
Here's the fact- you get yourself in the down 3-1 scenario too many times, it's going to eventually sting you...The Sox are almost too nonchalant at times...but this series is a case in which the better team won. I give them props for digging in and gutting it out. The Rays looked like their world had come to an end at the end of game 6, but they came back and won it in 7. Hats off.
The good news is, the Yankees still didn't make the playoffs.
Those are easy...In all seriousness though, they Yankees are young...they'll be fine in a few years.
Sorry, I can't even stop it.
red sox are the worst people in the world. The are BY FAR the most arrogant fan base in sports. They passed up Yankee fans, which I once thought was impossible. How they could claim the Rays are arrogant is beside me.
I being a Red Sox fan and season ticket holder(since '00), do not agree with anything that the Red Sox blogger talks about other than the Bandwagon fans.A team that still at the beginning of the series had more sox fans than rays fans in their own stadium. I'll give props to all the true rays fans who stuck it out since Boggs and Crimedog but seriously I think most of central florida just found out they had a baseball team. The Sox blogger is just a bitter fan, honestly IMO it was a great series we were able to come back and actually make it a good 7 games. These 2 teams were inarguably the best in baseball and if ever possible they should have just kicked the Phils out and Sox vs. Rays for another 7 games.
Been living here in the Tampa Bay area for almost 9 years, the Rays franchise is now ONLY in their 13th year and for them to overcome the incredibly STUPID, BLUNDERING, FOOLISH ownership of Vince Namoli and all his very bad moves is a major miracle. Do you think any fanbase can put up with ten years of such idiocy (IU football fans exempt)? HELL NO!!!
Growing up a Cardinal fan in Cub country I realized when I got here "Hey, this is the home team, gotta go with them good or bad" and though the Trop is out of the way and not the best place to watch a game, I have been to 4-5 games a year; having said that, the bandwagon isn't BIG ENOUGH!
The Red Sox are a very good team and they will be right back next year and I look forward to that. Right now though, the Rays will take on the Phillies and just like in the NFL (2002) and NHL (2004), Tampa Bay will take care of Philadelphia AGAIN.
Yay Phillies! Yay!
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