Remember when it wasn't cool to be a Sox fan, when bandwagon fans all around the country would stay away from us? I think we may be heading that way again. Like rats, certain "fans" will leave this team and will disappear.
I'm pleased.
Get off my lawn.
What a mess of a September.
This team has just flat out sucked a fat one.
It's on everyone: the players, Tito, Theo, Neil bleeping Diamond, ownership, Aramark, the sausage vendors, the training staff...
And this is the other side of the coin. New Englanders tend to be pessimistic. Complaining about it is fruitless.
This whole "I know how fans should really act" BS needs to be put to sleep.
I could say "well, you don't know what it's really like because you're from MN." But that would be just as retarded.
Thinking that you (not you specifically Emmz) hold the one true way to be a fan is the dumbest thing ever. Everyone needs to get over it.
Pink hats came before 2004. I think they started up after 1999 or so. Pink hats and arguments about "real fans" are just stupid things to complain about. The team is more popular now. If you don't like it, there's the door. That's not going to change for a while. The ownership doesn't give two shits about "real fans" when they are making money hand over fist and why should they? Watch NESN broadcasts of half empty games in the 80s and 90s. The real fans weren't banging the place out. Without the pink hats you complain about, this team would have half the payroll and would be competing with the Jays every year for third place. The whole "I know how to be a real fan" thing is a stupid exercise.
I was calling for Millwood back then but don't remember anyone else speaking up. I'd rather people be honest about who they wanted at the time. Hindsight is 20/20 and I remember everyone blasting the Colon and Garcia pickups and praising the Crawford signing. Personally, I wanted Adam Dunn and would have been run out on rails if I was GM.