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10-12-2009, 07:46 PM
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Single A
Join Date: Oct 12 2009
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Being a Red Sox fan...
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!!
Last edited by dervel; 10-12-2009 at 07:49 PM.
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10-12-2009, 07:52 PM
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Catalyst
Join Date: Aug 02 2006
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
Why dont you come to the dark side...
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Another championship for the best franchise in the history of organized sports. It's a great time to be a Yankee fan.
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10-12-2009, 07:54 PM
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Michigan's F'ing Cold
Join Date: Nov 02 2008
Posts: 16,837
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
Why don't you stop being a douchebag?^
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10-12-2009, 07:55 PM
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Catalyst
Join Date: Aug 02 2006
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
he said keep it civil. GAWD!!
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Another championship for the best franchise in the history of organized sports. It's a great time to be a Yankee fan.
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10-12-2009, 07:57 PM
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Michigan's F'ing Cold
Join Date: Nov 02 2008
Posts: 16,837
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
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Originally Posted by jacksonianmarch
he said keep it civil. GAWD!!
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Curses.
This is not a Yankee fan recruitment camp.
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10-12-2009, 07:58 PM
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Major Leaguer
Join Date: Aug 12 2009
Location: Pennsylvania,USA
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
Welcome to the forum!
Jacksonianmarch, GET LOST!!!  
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10-12-2009, 08:00 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Apr 27 2006
Location: Massachusetts
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
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.
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10-12-2009, 08:03 PM
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Legend
Join Date: Jul 30 2008
Posts: 5,701
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
Regional affiliation. Have never really given a shit about tradition or history in any sport.
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I learned that Jacoby has cojones, among other things.
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10-12-2009, 08:34 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 01 2004
Location: Not Boston
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacoby_Ellsbury
Regional affiliation. Have never really given a shit about tradition or history in any sport.
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That's dumb
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10-12-2009, 08:35 PM
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Legend
Join Date: Jul 30 2008
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
Quote:
Originally Posted by yeszir
That's dumb
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And why is that?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by italstallianion
I learned that Jacoby has cojones, among other things.
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10-12-2009, 08:43 PM
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Catalyst
Join Date: Aug 02 2006
Posts: 21,177
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
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.
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Another championship for the best franchise in the history of organized sports. It's a great time to be a Yankee fan.
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10-12-2009, 08:50 PM
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Legend
Join Date: Oct 02 2004
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
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.
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10-12-2009, 08:58 PM
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Deity
Join Date: Aug 04 2008
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
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.
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Fight the hate.
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10-12-2009, 09:10 PM
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MVP
Join Date: Sep 10 2009
Location: Minnuhsootuh
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
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
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YOUK-A-MANIA'S RUNNIN' WILD BROTHER!!!
Last edited by Emmz; 10-12-2009 at 09:14 PM.
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10-12-2009, 10:06 PM
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Legend
Join Date: Apr 15 2009
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 9,955
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Re: Being a Red Sox fan...
Quote:
Originally Posted by jacksonianmarch
Why dont you become brain dead...
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Fixed that for you Doc.
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