The rings fiasco

[yeszir]

So now the sox head honchos are saying its a no go on the ring ceremony in front of the yankees for the home opener. That's crap. Since when do we need to bend over backwards for a team that has tortured us for years and years? The sox owe this to the fans.

 

At this point, I don't care one ounce for what Afraud and Cashman and Steinbrenner and the like would feel when all of the players are presented their rings. Doing it otherwise would be wrong. I would feel cheated if they were presented before an Orioles game or, god forbid, a D-Rays game.

 

http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=69016

[Gertie]

That's ********, plain and simple. Do you think the Yankees would hesitate for a second to do it in front of the Sox? What's the difference, anyway? Hell, Steinbrenner should be happy; it'll give the Yanks players some motivation. Come on Henry, Lucchino, et al.; you've stood up to Georgie plenty before. Do it again this time when it counts.

[yeszir]

Plus this comes at an ever heightening rivalry between the two teams. If this is an effort to cool tempers on both sides, I don't like it. It's good to have the teams consider each other the enemy. I'm sick and tired of passionate fans and apathetic players.

 

I want to see Carlton Fisk take on the entire Yankees team. I want this to get old school, not necessarily throw-zimmer-to-the-ground intense, but intense enough so that players will dislike each other and actually care about "the rivalry". I also want to see the look on arod's face.

[element1151]

Baseball is a business, you have to think about ratings, not about how your opponent feels.

[Gertie]

TV ratings would be higher if the ring ceremony was during the home opener vs. the Yankees.

[yeszir]

TV ratings would be higher if the ring ceremony was during the home opener vs. the Yankees.

Exactly. Everyone would win if the sox are finally presented with rings during opening day against the yankees. Think about it. All of New England would watch.

[element1151]

TV ratings would be higher if the ring ceremony was during the home opener vs. the Yankees.

 

That was my point.

[element1151]

Think about it. All of New England would watch.

 

All of New England would probably be watching anyway, this would get get more viewers nationwide.

[yeszir]

Oh, I thought you were being a bitch and advocating the other side. Instead you were pointing out how it could only be beneficial to present the rings. Gotcha.

[RedSoxRooter]

What sucks for me is that, unless the rings are presented before an actual game, I won't be able to see it. My MLB TV pass doesn't show "special events" like off-day celebratations.

 

Just do it opening day in front of the Yankees and the whole Nation. It's not like we got the rings because we beat the Yanks - we had to beat the Cardinals to get them.

[sarasoxfan]

what a pathetic thing to evevn consider by red sox management.

As someone here suggested the yankees wouldnt hesitate for a minute and wouldnt even consider the "feelings" of the opposition.

 

That's ridiculous...

 

They apparently have been getting so many complaints that they are consdering just going ahead with the ceremony..

 

 

I say it is fitting the yankees are the opponent, and combined with the biggest choke in the history of baseball this a moment that I have spent my entire life waiting for and I could give two shits whether it's throwing salt in the yankee wounds or not.

 

I say where's the mOrton's.

[sarasoxfan]

I just remebered they had that f*** face bucky dent throw out the first pitch in a playoff game--they have been rubbing our noses in s*** for 80 years..

 

I hate all this political correctness crap..

 

The ceremony is supposed othat date and the fact that it is against the Yankees is a great coincidence.

 

I think it is only fitting..

 

Ratings....schmatings..like every sox fan in the world wont be watching opening day...

 

f*** THE YANKEES...

 

Just to see A-f***s face when our boys get their rings,,,,ahhhh..

[sarasoxfan]

from the new york daily news ...

 

Fans demand Fenway ring-ding

 

FORT MYERS - One of their owners dubbed the Yankees "the Evil Empire." And a few of their giddy players have taken turns making wisecracks about Alex Rodriguez all winter.

But suddenly, have the Red Sox developed a soft spot for their biggest rivals?

 

Baseball sources confirmed a report that the Sox are considering not presenting their players their World Series rings at their home opener April 11 against the Yankees, thereby eliminating the appearance of "rubbing it in."

 

However, an overwhelming Boston backlash still might sway the team to revert to the original Opening Day plan, one person with knowledge of the situation said last night. Either way, the team's first World Series championship banner since 1918 still will be raised that day, with the Yankees in attendance.

 

"I'm sure we'll enjoy our rings whenever that day comes," GM Theo Epstein said.

 

Epstein is expected to meet with owners John Henry and Tom Werner and team president Larry Lucchino in the coming days or weeks to discuss a definitive date for the ring ceremony.

[mosox]

This isn't "rubbing it in", it's a tradition the Sox earned. They certainly don't hold back down in their place, with all the signs of titles and the endless video highlights on the scoreboard as the Sox take BP. I say hand out the rings, raise the flag and make Slappy and the gang stand out there and watch.

[westcoastjagoff]

Political correctness has no place in this case. The yanks have been on top so many times. You tell me one case in which the f***ing Yankees ever changed there ring ceremony plans to keep from offending somebody??? I hope the Sox play the game with there ring on!

[RedSoxRooter]

Political correctness has no place in this case. The yanks have been on top so many times. You tell me one case in which the f***ing Yankees ever changed there ring ceremony plans to keep from offending somebody??? I hope the Sox play the game with there ring on!

John Henry - I guess it was him - posted on SOSH now that the rings won't be done in time for the home opener....

[yeszir]

John Henry - I guess it was him - posted on SOSH now that the rings won't be done in time for the home opener....

But they can still sell similar ones for $3,000 a piece to fans.

[BigPapiEnFuego]

********. If they do that i would be unbelieveably pissed off. In fact, the yankee players should stand on the field during the ceremony facing the sox exactly 2 feet infront of them and watch them get the rings.

[westcoastjagoff]

This is not the time to be modest. We need to gloat, we need to celebrate and most of all we need to put our collective cleats across those punks throats and show them what they didn't get!!!

[Yanksin2010]

I hope they do it. As if the yankees need more motivation.

[Sizzlin22]

I hope they do it. As if the yankees need more motivation.

Soooo thier bloated contracts and the fact that they are getting payed to play baseball wasn't enough motivation?

[Yanksin2010]

Soooo thier bloated contracts and the fact that they are getting payed to play baseball wasn't enough motivation?

They're playing for more than just money now.

[sarasoxfan]

yeah to prove that they aren't the biggest chokers in the history of baseball....

[sarasoxfan]

speaking of rings;you know what has a nice ring to it...

 

Welcome to the 2005 season and the defending World Series Champion Boston Red Sox....

[JethroTull]

Mr. Henry,

 

Far be it for a lifelong fan to tell you how to conduct your business. You've opened up with the World Champion New England Patriots previously; a genius stroke. And I must recognize at least the need to consider appropriateness where this ring ceremony is concerned. You are dignity and grace personified. But delaying the exclaimation point to the historic season in Boston of all places is to force political correctness on a region born not of tepidness and proper decorum, but of fire and brimestone.

 

It is indeed proper and appropriate to award the championship rings at the following home opener; opponent be damned. The mere coincidence that finds the Yankees in the opposing dugout is but icing on the cake for the multitudes in Red Sox Nation. Anything less will be seen not as gentlemanly behavior, but as a franchise still struggling with the fruits of victory. With so much invested in gaining the title, not only the team, but the fans as well have earned this moment. I daresay the message sent in delaying the ceremony would not be one of deservability, but of a lack thereof. Likewise, excuses such as the rings not being ready is not befitting of champions.

 

And Mr. Henry, we deserve these rings. Every single one, and every single moment that comes with it. We have supported this franchise like our fathers before us, and their fathers before them. Mothers and daughters, aunts and uncles, sisters and brothers, friends and family alike; this victory resonates across Red Sox Nation beyond the walls of fabled Fenway Park. To deny this moment is to take the exclaimation point off the victory. It sends the message that the opponent be considered ahead of the loyal following. And pardon me for saying so, but we've waited too damn long for this moment to consider the opponent.

 

For once in our tortured existence, we came out on top. To the victor go the spoils. And part of the spoils is the awarding of the rings at the following home opener. It is not only fitting that the Yankees will be on hand; it is poetic justice. I would think the Yanks to have less respect if Boston cowed away from its earned celebration. The 2005 season is upon us, and soon it will be time to quiet down the din and move on with the new season. But there is no finer way to kick off the new season in front of your fans than to put the final touch on the magnificant season that was 2004.

 

And so in closing Mr. Henry, a simple request. Let the baseball world know that business as usual has changed on Yawkey Way. For we are the defending World Champion Boston Red Sox, and we've waited our entire lives to say so. The final measure of this season for the ages ends with the first pitch at home in the new season. And prior to that pitch, the team gets the coveted rings for all to see. Who better to see them than the very franchise that stood solidly in the way all those years? This is OUR moment, sir. Grady Little is gone, and with him go the inept decisions of the past. Take the moment and give it to us. The team has earned it, the city has earned it, the fans have earned it, and most importantly, YOU have earned it. Yankees be damned ! The Pride of the Red Sox is born.

 

Sincerely, Jethro Tull

[Yanksin2010]

yeah to prove that they aren't the biggest chokers in the history of baseball....

The biggest chokers in the history of baseball are currently the cubs. But don't be sad, you're 86 years of choking is close.

[Soxfan1]

This is f***ing ********. They don't know how long we have waited for this. Buckner, ruth, and all the other s*** we've gone through has been enough pain. We need this and those fags just came last year so they don't know this.

[Sizzlin22]

The biggest chokers in the history of baseball are currently the cubs. But don't be sad, you're 86 years of choking is close.

True but having 36 defensive outs to win a series and not being able to pull it off that thats pretty high on the choker list.

[Yanksin2010]

True but having 36 defensive outs to win a series and not being able to pull it off that thats pretty high on the choker list.

 

not as bad 86 years and how many ever defensive outs that is.

[RedSoxRooter]

not as bad 86 years and how many ever defensive outs that is.

old news. Current news is that the Yankees choked.