Globe calls Red Sox "The Beatles of Baseball"

by matt21oc on Apr 2, 2007 9:26 PM EDT Comment 9 comments

Hilarious. Read the Article and think of the 7-1 beating Kansas City gave to resident asshole Kurt Schilling and the Sox.

"Opening Day fever: As anticipation bubbles near and far, Sox set to bow in."

By Dan Shaughnessy, Globe Staff | April 2, 2007

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Red Sox are the baseball Beatles. They are Elvis. They are American Idols. Also Dominican Idols and Japanese Idols.

They are national cover boys and top draws of ESPN and Fox. At this hour they have more star power than any American sports team (yes, even more than the Yankees), and they are gaining on Club Steinbrenner with the second-highest payroll in all of baseball, a whopping $145.7 million.

Sometimes it's hard to remember the Red Sox finished in third place last season, failing to make the playoffs for the first time since 2002.

Read on here: http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/04/02/opening_day_fever/

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What do you expect?

The Boston Globe owns the Red Sox. Shaughnessy is all about the hyperbole. I think I threw up in my mouth at least three times reading that drivel.

by tiyuri on Apr 2, 2007 10:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

He must be bipolar

Shaughnessy flip-flops almost daily in his columns. It seems like he goes for bashing the Sox to polishing their knobs then back to bashing several times a week.

Fear the Evil Empire

by pfistyunc on Apr 3, 2007 7:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs