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post #1 of 11
6/18/07 at 2:23pm
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I hate the Red Sox more than I hate the Yankees. Like, a lot more. I was driving through NC, VA, MD and PA yesterday and every time I saw a car with a non-New England state license plate decked out with Red Sox regalia, I felt a wave of Zodlike hate course through my extremities.
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post #2 of 11
6/18/07 at 2:25pm
I'm not trying to defend the Sox, but what makes you hate them so much?
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post #3 of 11
6/18/07 at 6:09pm
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Foremost, the insufferability of the fanbase. A good part of this, I admit, is Simmons. And none of it is guys like you, who follow the team because it's regionally-appropriate (and probably have for some time). I'm just seeing too many fans that I suspect are bandwagon Red Sox nation wannabes. Sure, there are lots of transplants, but not this many.

Apart from that, the Yanks-Sox $200 mil payroll arms race is, for the rest of the sports fan world, an exercise in deciding who to hate less. In the ongoing battle to fight off the WWL telling me that the Yanks and the Sox is the best storyline in sports over and over, I've got to pick a side. Generally, like most people, if all else is equal I'll go with the underdog. Strangely, the Sox are no longer the underdog. I actually want the Yanks to catch them.
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post #4 of 11
6/18/07 at 6:13pm
All valid points, I was just curious. Since 2004 I've lost interest almost completely. I was already losing interest prior to that, seeing the same old Sox-Yanks thing year after year. I can't really be bothered at this point. And as much as I've always hated Yankees fans, Red Sox fans are pretty fucking obnoxious.
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post #5 of 11
6/18/07 at 6:20pm
My annoyance at the Boston fan-base is nothing compared to the wave of nausea and revulsion that sweeps over me with every Yankee victory/A-Rod homerun/D. Jeter reference in a "news" column.

Maybe in a decade or two Boston will catch up, but right now I don't have enough hatred to go around.
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post #6 of 11
6/18/07 at 6:37pm
The Red Sox will first need to win a quarter of the World Series over the next century to ever catch up to what the Yankees have done. Then maybe they'll lose their insanity/self-punishment over the team. Funny thing is that as a Yankee fan I have none of the hatred for them that Red Sox fans seem to have for the Yankees. Don't know of anyone else here that has either.
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post #7 of 11
6/18/07 at 6:54pm
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Originally Posted by donde
The Red Sox will first need to win a quarter of the World Series over the next century to ever catch up to what the Yankees have done. Then maybe they'll lose their insanity/self-punishment over the team. Funny thing is that as a Yankee fan I have none of the hatred for them that Red Sox fans seem to have for the Yankees. Don't know of anyone else here that has either.
Typically, it's the nail that hates the hammer, not vice versa.
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post #8 of 11
6/19/07 at 1:12am
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Originally Posted by Overlord
Typically, it's the nail that hates the hammer, not vice versa.
Great line. Never thought of it that way.
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post #9 of 11
6/19/07 at 5:00pm
I'm allergic to the Atlanta Braves. As a Mets fan, I won't even watch them play the Mets. I get heartburn just seeing the Braves on the scoreboard.
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post #10 of 11
6/19/07 at 5:20pm
As a Yankee fan, I've never had a hate-on for the Red Sox or their fans.

Curt Schilling, on the other hand...
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post #11 of 11
6/20/07 at 2:24am
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Curt Schilling, on the other hand...
That would probably have to do with him being a douche.
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