Being a Red Sox fan...

[dervel]

Hi!I am a european who only recently found out how great sport baseball is.The 2009 season is the first one I watched in regular basis and got really familiar with the sport.

I ve heard that the best way to learn a new sport is become a fan of one team and follow it all year long.So I started watching the sox, learned a few things about its history and really liked the team.I don't really mind losing the ALDS-I am not the kind of person that wants to win every time.

Now the season for Boston is over I would like to ask you to give me some more reasons to be a red sox fan.

Why are you a red sox fan?What's so special about this team for you?

Thanks in advance for every answer, I 'd aprreciated it if we kept it civil!!

[jacksonianmarch]

Why dont you come to the dark side...

 

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[Dipre]

Why don't you stop being a douchebag?^

[jacksonianmarch]

he said keep it civil. GAWD!!

[Dipre]

he said keep it civil. GAWD!!

 

Curses.

 

This is not a Yankee fan recruitment camp.

[Christian Snyder]

Welcome to the forum!

 

Jacksonianmarch, GET LOST!!!

[Cocos Disciples]

I'm a Sox fan by birth, but a number of factors made me even more of a fan: the rich history, as you mentioned, and the park, to name a few.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Regional affiliation. Have never really given a s*** about tradition or history in any sport.

[yeszir]

Regional affiliation. Have never really given a s*** about tradition or history in any sport.

 

That's dumb

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

That's dumb

And why is that?

[jacksonianmarch]

because regional affiliation could theoretically put you in yankee or met territory. I was born into a Mets family but rebelled because I was a Strawberry fan and when he left after the 1990 season, I hated the Mets for it (I was 9). I was always a big Cal Ripken fan, but I just didnt like the Orioles, ever. So, I just watched the games for a season before becoming a yankee fan thanks to Don Mattingly. Being a 1B myself, I liked him and wanted to be like him. So, thats how I became a Yankee fan. I always thought they were terrible seeing as the Mets won a WS in 86 and went to one in 88 while the yankees did nothing in the 80s. Then, as I got older, I learned about their history and it confirmed my choice.

[yankees228]

I don't think there are any good or bad reasons for becoming a fan of team, although rooting for a team just because they're good is probably not a good idea. Both of my parents were big Yankee fans, and I got into it at a very early age.

 

And Jacko, thanks to someone we'll be seeing on TV soon, the Yanks did not make the World Series in 1988.

[Dojji]

Honestly I'm a baseball fan first, Red Sox fan second. I love the story quality of games, especially dramatic games. And I always followed the Sox as well as opportunity allowed. But I'm good with any team, any day (except for the Yankees of course!)

 

I learned to love the Sox back in the early 90's when they had some good teams but all we could get out where I grew up is over-air broadcasts, and there was a hill in the way of the tower that carried the Sox games. So I listened to the Sox on the radio, and when I wanted to watch baseball on TV, there was a signal from New Brunswick that would carry Expos games.

 

Yes, that's right, I was at one point in my life a hybrid Sox/Expos fan. It was in the days of good Expos players like Dennis Martinez, Andres Galarraga and Tim Raines, so I guess there was some justification. I always thought the uniforms were a bit strange of course, but this was the late 80's and early 90's, so theirs wasn't the only odd uniform out there.

 

I'm over it now, but, it about killed me when they left Montreal. There's a small, vindictive part of me that is glad the Nationals suck.

[Emmz]

I'm a hybrid Twins/Sox fan, but I consider myself sports fan first, Red Sox fan second, all other sports and teams third.

 

PS: Whatever you do, don't listen to Jacko

[Spudboy]

Why dont you become brain dead...

 

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Fixed that for you Doc.

[BOSOX11]

I fell in love with baseball as a youngster, just before the Dodgers came to L.A. I can't begin to recall all the Sunday doubleheaders I attended at old Wrigley Field, watching the PCL Los Angeles Angels, led by Steve Bilko, beat up on the rest of the league. My Dad and older brother were (Ugh!) Yankee fans and my Mom lived and died for her Angels. It took a pack of baseball cards, with Frank Malzone the top card under that slab of pink bubblegum, to make me a Red Sox fan. It was never easy being a Red Sox fan in L.A., but it has always been worth the abuse. Worth every second.

[Dipre]

I fell in love with baseball as a youngster' date=' just before the Dodgers came to L.A. I can't begin to recall all the Sunday doubleheaders I attended at old Wrigley Field, watching the PCL Los Angeles Angels, led by Steve Bilko, beat up on the rest of the league. My Dad and older brother were (Ugh!) Yankee fans and my Mom lived and died for her Angels. It took a pack of baseball cards, with Frank Malzone the top card under that slab of pink bubblegum, to make me a Red Sox fan. It was never easy being a Red Sox fan in L.A., but it has always been worth the abuse. Worth every second.[/quote']

 

You must have really enjoyed 2004 huh?

[Dojji]

You must have really enjoyed 2004 huh?

 

And 1986.

 

And 2007.

 

And 2008.

[Dipre]

And 1986.

 

And 2007.

 

And 2008.

 

Jesus Christ.

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

because regional affiliation could theoretically put you in yankee or met territory. I was born into a Mets family but rebelled because I was a Strawberry fan and when he left after the 1990 season' date=' I hated the Mets for it (I was 9). I was always a big Cal Ripken fan, but I just didnt like the Orioles, ever. So, I just watched the games for a season before becoming a yankee fan thanks to Don Mattingly. Being a 1B myself, I liked him and wanted to be like him. So, thats how I became a Yankee fan. I always thought they were terrible seeing as the Mets won a WS in 86 and went to one in 88 while the yankees did nothing in the 80s. Then, as I got older, I learned about their history and it confirmed my choice.[/quote']

 

Why should I care about history that I didn't experience?

[BOSOX11]

You must have really enjoyed 2004 huh?

 

I can now die a happy man.

[Dipre]

I can now die a happy man.

 

I got so drunk that night i didn't show up for work or school the other day.

 

I called my boss and told her: "I'm calling in sick, but in reality, i'm hammered 'cause the Sox won"

 

Why did i do this?

 

She's a diehard Sox fan, and she was pretty hungover too.

[witty_alias]

My Dad always went to Boston for work and would always bring us back Sox stuff. I was in little league and just learning the game so I latched on and never looked back.

[italstallianion]

Why dont you come to the dark side...

 

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Because he has a f***** brain.

[FourFriends1679]

For me, this is a hereditary mental disorder. It just runs in my family. Especially in the men. My grandfathers all had it. All of my Uncles have it, and my father has it. So, sadly, I inherited the gene as well. There was little hope for me, I guess. LOL. (Somehow I managed to give it my wife. Not sure how that works!)

 

My father was at the Bucky Dent game in '78. (I still have the ticket in my Baseball Card Album to proove it!) I came into it in '86, living in Connecticut, going to school with a bunch of Mets and Yankee fans. Yeah... Schiraldi, Stanley and Buckner (not to mention Johnny Mac) REALLY let me down that year. (In a one-minute time span I went from literally jumping with joy at the prospect of bragging rights, to utter depsair and dreading the ribbing I'd be getting the next day!) LOL.

 

DW and I had a bottle of Champagne for 2004, and I DID NOT, WOULD NOT, open it until Menkavich (not even going to try!) stepped on first and the ump called out. Even three games up, I wasn't going to risk it! Hey - WE just came back from 0-3, who's to say the Cards couldn't do it, just to spite us?

 

I'm just really glad about the current ownership and managment team though. They really know what they're doing and really want to win. FINALLY, for the first time since the 1910's, I really think the teams is really in good hands. (And YES, I'm including the Tom Yawkee era in that statement!)

[TheMino007]

My parents got my into it. I remember I was about 3 or 4, it had to of been 1993, and the Sox where playing the Twins. I remember that was the first game I ever saw on TV. My mom basically forced me to watch Red Sox games hahah. My favorite team without a doubt was the 1999 Red Sox. Why? I have no idea. Just loved that team even though it was a year after my boy Mo departed for Anaheim. I'll always remember him hitting bombs to RF, CF, over the Green Monster and watching the ball clear the net and seeing the Citgo sign light up in the background, oh and his DUI and Foxy Lady visits too lol

[soxfan17881]

First, my juvenile attempts at humor - Here's to you, jacko...

 

There is truth and meaning behind that logo...

 

http://spieles.com/images/NYpussy.jpg

[soxfan17881]

But seriously...

 

I, like BOSOX11, am no where near Boston (though not nearly as far away as LA) Living in central PA, I grew up a Phillies fan. Mike Schmidt and Lefty were my heroes. My father too, was a Phillies fan.

 

One day, he gave me a Boston baseball cap. "I know it's not a Phillies cap," he said, "But you have tons of those. Boston is good to root for, too." When I asked why, he said, "Because Boston is full of good Irish lads (he was very proud of his Irish heritage) and because it pisses off those sons-a-bitchin' Yankee fans!"

 

So, I wore the cap, a bit more and more through my teens, and I began to familiarize myself with the Red Sox here and there. College came and baseball was lost for me, for awhile that is. I began to get reacquainted with it in the late 90's and, for reasons unknown to me, I began to follow Boston and not Philly. Now, being a Boston fan in Central Pennsylvania in the late 90's meant that I'd see occasional stuff on ESPN and then later the playoffs. I really began to pay a lot of attention when Pedro was dealing and then then Manny arrived. By the time we got to 2004, I was hooked.

 

As for the "why"? Well, as my late father said, it really pisses off the Yankee fans around me. But there's just something about the those blinding white unis with the candy apple red "Red Sox" on the front. They've always seemed to have personality, too. Not always as much as those '04 guys, but never, ever the automatons that the Yankees field - the same haircuts, not smiling.

 

They have a "working class" feel for me. I know it's an illusion - they're all overpaid - but Boston is history and grit and lager. The Red Sox are Teddy Ballgame, Yaz, Fisk, the Royal Rooters, Tessie, and the Green Monstah! NY is crime, crowds, apple-tinis, and ridiculous red, white, and blue top hats. The Yankees are prima donnas, tantrums, bought-and-paid dominance, and STEINBRENNER.

 

When someone asks me why I root for the Red Sox and I need a short answer I simply say, "They picked me, I didn't pick them."

[redsoxmaniac19]

First, my juvenile attempts at humor - Here's to you, jacko...

 

There is truth and meaning behind that logo...

 

http://spieles.com/images/NYpussy.jpg

Really? I never even thought about this! When I looked at the logo, I didn't suspect ANYTHING! You have keen eyes, my friend. Maybe this will end up on the news in a week or two.