Mmhmmm...

by jscape2000 on Jul 7, 2008 2:36 PM EDT in News Comment 12 comments

Those Red Sox fans sure are classy. Clearly the most dedicated and devote fanbase in all of professional sports.

They don't just pour mustard on your jersey and make false statements to security to get you thrown out of Fenway park...

They don't just harrass you in bars for rooting for another team...

They beat you up if you're not from the state of Massachuesettes.

Police said Saturday night's incident occurred when [Robert] Correia and others spotted a car with New York license plates leaving Falmouth's fireworks display.

Police said the group accused the man, whose children were in the car, of being a Yankees fan, then beat him and vandalized his car. The man, whose name was not released, was treated at Falmouth Hospital with non-life threatening injuries to his head and body.

That's Red Sox "Nation" for you.

h/t The Star-Ledger

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Wait...

...they pulled the ol’ mustard/falsehoods trick on you, too?

by dzawaki on Jul 7, 2008 4:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

No

Sadly, I’ve never gotten myself up to Fenway, but I’ve heard the story enough times from enough different people to believe it happens regularly.

Happen to you?

"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

by jscape2000 on Jul 7, 2008 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yep,

except it was some mixture of whatever they put on their “Fenway Franks” (yeah, they threw one or two) and beer. They also took my cap. Bastards.

by dzawaki on Jul 9, 2008 9:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

THE MOST DISGUSTING THING I EVER SAW AT A BALLPARK

I went to a spring training game between the Yankees and the Red Sox at the Sox park in Ft Myers, FL. One particularly classy female fan had made a “clever” sign that accused Jeter and A-Rod of, in very “colloquial” terms, shall we say, of having an ongoing homosexual affair. She proudly marched up and down the outfield aisles clad in her sox attire FOR THE WHOLE GAME with this sign held high, to the cheers of many in the crowd.
Now I want to make two points, the first is that the majority of Sox fans are just good baseball fans who love to rib Yankee fans and have a fun conversation about the game they love. But there seems to be an inordinate amount of fans of this team who take this “hostility” to an absurd level.
The second point I want to make is this: I know more than one homosexual male friend of mine who is also a big baseball fan, contrary to the stereotypes we have come to accept. I thought of him that day, and how he might have felt as many many fans shouted and laughed at this sign.

Munson15

by Munson15 on Jul 7, 2008 4:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Bad Baseball Fans Are Everywhere

Every major league team has these kinds of fans, and I wouldn’t be surprised if many of them existed in every ballpark. The mindset is this, “I bought my ticket and I can do whatever the hell I want!”.

I beg to differ, for there is something called “common decency” and “public decorum” that should be applied to this aspect of life, as well as any other aspect of being out in public, no matter if you have paid to be there or not.

Common decency…. the new rebellion. :-)

"We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment." Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human,All Too Human" (1878)

by wgarrett on Jul 7, 2008 7:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Tampa Bay

I was walking out of a most recent Rays game in Tampa Bay vs. the Yankees when some drunkin Rays fan poured all of his beer on me from the upper deck. Some Yankees fans saw this and backed me up by calling a near by usher over and had the guy arrested. People I just want to watch the Yankees play. Rays fans = old Sox fans.

by colts9318rock on Jul 7, 2008 9:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

another reason to simply HATE the Red Sox and their shitty fans

2008 - A New Era. The End of An Era.

by goyankees on Jul 7, 2008 9:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

seriously?

Yeah, because these lunatics represent Red Sox nation, right?

Everyone has lunatic fans. Yourselves included.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/10/04/red_sox_fan_assaulted_in_new_york/

by Charger567 on Jul 8, 2008 2:55 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Charger is right.

The Sox and Yankees and Rays and Orioles and even, yes, the Marlins all have some pretty dumbass fans, some of whom are probably imbalanced beyond extreme fandom for their baseball teams.

It’s awful that it happened, but it’s an incredibly weak argument to make on your part, jscape.

"Are you a real doctor, or a doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor?"

by Allen Chace on Jul 8, 2008 4:44 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I wrote a reply to Charger last night

that got eaten by the system.

My ‘charges’ are, of course, tongue-in-cheek. Anyone who has sat in the bleachers knows that there is a fine line separating die-hards and assholes.

I sat next to a pair of Red Sox fans in the centerfield bleachers of the RJ-Wakefield 1-0 game a couple years ago. We had a ton of fun; we ribbed each other and also talked about our teams strengths and weaknesses. I wish ALL baseball fans were like those Red Sox fans.

What I thought set this particular incident above and beyond was that the guys were no where near a sporting event, nor was the accused Yankee fan saying or doing anything to suggest if he was a Yankee fan. He just had out of state plates. Where I’m from, that just gets you a speeding ticket.

"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

by jscape2000 on Jul 8, 2008 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i went to Sox/Yanks at the Stadium in '01

when Tino hit a salami in the first inning off of Nomo. shortly after that, three Sox fans left their seats from being ribbed by some Yanks fans and one of them stuck around. two innings later, the guy let me and a few of my high school friends move up 15 rows to sit in those seats. he was a die-hard Sox fan with a really annoying Worcester accent, but a good guy to let us sit there.

there are asshole fans everywhere but i’m not going to generalize the whole Sox fanbase.

by Clutch like Leyritz on Jul 8, 2008 11:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs