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Neighborhood: Fenway4 Yawkey Way
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122 reviews for Boston Red Sox
1901 AL charter franchisee, who wins 33 games in the inaugural season?
Cy Young.
Red Sox baseball is replete with legendary names synonymous with baseball itself:
Carl Yastrzemski
Ted Williams
Carlton Fisk
Wade Boggs
Jimmy Collins
Johnny Pesky
Jim Rice
Tom Yawkey
Dennis Eckersley
We'll get 'em next year.
upgraded to two stars on the strength of no more Man-roids Ramirez AND the fact that Jon Papelbon shows no hesitance in calling out his former teammate. That's remarkably refreshing, given the contrast to the NY Yankee's support for the circus-show that is Alex Rodriguez, class-A d-bag and his completely disingenuous "apology" for juicing.
Red Sox - two stars, because the Yankees deserve to monopolize the one-star spot.
(Incidentally, this corresponds with a drop in ratings for the LA Dodgers, too - sparked by fans who instinctively jump to Manny's defense. Presumably, these would tend to be the same people who believe torture justified because not doing so makes America "less safe." They will now accuse fellow LA fans, nevertheless critical of Manny, of making the Dodgers less competitive).
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5/22/2008
1 star because of Dice K and his occasional wildness.
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I love baseball. I have always been a bit of a tomboy and I have wanted to see Fenway Park for a very long time. It is truly one of the last "classic" baseball parks left anywhere. So because my husband had to travel down to Brunswick, GA for work-related training, my brother and I decided to meet up in Boston and go to a Red Sox game. We hadn't seen each other since last Christmas. We managed to get two bleacher tickets via the Red Sox website. We were both looking forward to this game.
Except that it rained. Poured! They didn't call the game, and since we both had traveled a long way, we wanted to see the game. So we tried to not get wet. Then the Red Sox opened up with a 12-run inning and after that, we decided to go back to our hotel bar for a nightcap. That's the trouble when you travel a long distance to see a baseball game--you are really at the mercy of the weather.
The other reviewers are correct. The food and beer selections at Fenway are only so-so. But I did have a Fenway Frank and a Sam Adams. So to sum up, me and my bro had a good evening at Fenway. We tried to make the best of it. I would like to come back when the weather will be better.
Can't wait for 2012 and the rise of Ryan Westmoreland and Casey Kelley.
Bandwagon fans is what comes to mind when I think Red Soxs. Where did all of these Boston hats come from? Did they mass produce them circa 2004.
Also, why do girls feel like they can run their mouths about sports when they can't name anybody on the team besides papelbon or ortiz.
Met a girl with Red Soxs tattoo who didn't even know who the second baseman was. That pretty much sums up this franchise and their fans.
Total douchers
Born and raised a Boston Red Sox fan. As the narrator in the movie "Fever Pitch" said..."One of life's most pathetic creatures, a Red Sox fan". I was "in" the Fever Pitch movie.....3 rows back from Pesky's Pole for that game. Too bad they didn't zoom in when Jimmy Fallon points to it. I'd be more famous. LOL
I grew up 8 mi from Fenway Park. Never made many games, mostly due to being busy with life and watching on TV. My first game was on Tuesday, May 31st, 1977. Red Sox 5, Yankees 1. Have now been to over 200 games at Fenway Park. I also follow the team on the road a couple times a year. I have seen the Red Sox play in 14 other parks as well.
When people suggest I'm a "bandwagon" fan, I ask them where they were on Monday, October 2nd, 1978 at 5:30 pm Eastern time, and what that day was? (Red Sox/Yankees 1 game playoff at Fenway Park, just after the Yankees won 5-4). It was a beautiful day for baseball. I was 11 years old. I still remember everything from that day, and no I wasn't there, was 8 miles away watching from home. My favorite moment (other than the recent World Series wins) was getting David Ortiz's 1st HR ball on April 3rd, 2006 in Arlington, TX. 1st of 54 that year, a Red Sox record.
The current ownership of the Boston Red Sox have done so many great things with the park in the 7 years they have owned the club. I've sat in ALL of their new editions. Fenway was great when they got it, it's even greater now. Love the "Futures at Fenway" doubleheader day in August with their minor league clubs playing at Fenway. This is year #4 of that and I'll be there once again.
For David G. who thinks Red Sox fans are all Bandwagon fans? You obviously have no clue as to what a Red Sox fan is. Sure, many pink hats arrived when it became "cool" to attend a Red Sox game, but those are not the bulk of the fan base. Since you were too much a wuss to mention your Evil Empire fandom, or are you a disgruntled Montreal fan?
Typical Red Sox fan? I don't think there is one. We're all different but we all have one thing in common, love of the game of baseball and the "Olde Town Team"
I expect good things for 2009 and beyond. This ownership team is in it for the long run.
Go Sox!
A quick caveat before I begin Review 300 (and no, it's not about Sparta): when I was very small, I briefly rooted for the New York Mets. This sacrilege may not be atoned by this review, but I'll try (I should point out that this was in the period when I was about 4, during the '86 World Series, and I liked the color blue more than red.) I just wanted to be different. I eventually came around, but that has to be directly addressed before I continue.
Now, onto my review. I remember the times in the 1990s when it absolutely sucked to be a Red Sox fan. Butch Hobson couldn't coach a team over the 2008 Detroit Lions, not to mention the early 1990s baseball machines in Oakland and Toronto. The pitching made puppies cry. The hitting, while led by Mo Vaughn, wasn't cutting it in a league where Joe Carter and Mark McGwire ruled baseball with their mighty blasts. But we stuck there, with those damn losers.
A quick side Red Sox story from this period: I had my heart broken for the first time during one of those Middle School dance-type things. No, it wasn't because some girl didn't want to dance with me (though that did most certainly happen). It was the Sox being trounced by the Indians in the 1995 ALDS. While this was the first of many heartbreaks, it's one of the more memorable. But that was always part of the Sox mystique. We fail. We epic fail. And we were really good at that.
The two years that most directly shaped this, and my love of the Sox though, were 2003 and 2004. I had the opportunity to see the 2003 playoffs at school, as I didn't go home during Columbus Day break. On a weekend/week where the world saw Steve Bartman interfere in a foul ball, and I and some friends saw "Lost in Translation" in Seekonk after getting directions from a man with a double pipe, Game 7 was the ultimate punch in the gut. Grady Little. Aaron Boone. Fail. Epic fail.
But it was 2003 that made 2004 so special. We never saw 2004 coming, particularly after losing A-Rod to the Evil Empire. But then the ALCS happened. Games 1, 2, and 3 were bad. The Yankees were dominant, the Sox had nothing, and Schilling did a number on his ankle. And then Dave Roberts happened. And Papi. And the Bloody Sock. By Game 7, nothing else really mattered, as the Sox had done the impossible, being the first non-hockey team in professional sports to rail off a series win after going down 3-0 in a 7 game series.
I was at UMass at the time. My first semester of grad school sucked, as I was separated from the collegiate world I had known for so long, knowing very few people, and not doing well in work I didn't understand. Simply put, I was suffering.
The Red Sox were my escape, where perseverance would bring about victory, where even the most improbable result was possible. If the Sox could turn around the ALCS, I could turn around my performance in my Foucault class (well, not really).
While the first round of Grad School did not work out, what did work out were those Sox. And despite the fact that the 2004 Series was in the bag, we never took that for granted. Game 4 of the 2004 World Series can best be compared to the night of the 2008 election, primarily the period between Obama winning Ohio and 11 PM EST: You knew it was over, but you would never say it aloud, lest you jinx it. And then it happened. Jubilation. Happiness. The suffering of a disparate and diverse group of individuals destroyed in one utterly insane moment. Whether it was Mientkiewicz catching the ball or CNN calling the election, the moments were more electric than anything I had ever experienced in my entire life. It was over. And the world (or in the case of the Sox, the Nation), were forever changed for it.
Yes, the Sox have changed since then. People have come and gone, the Sox won another World Series, and the team has shifted in its championship outlook (as in, we want championships).
And there are the grating sides. The pink hats, when Rem-Dawg goes a little too far with the self-promotion, the end of Manny period, and the ticket prices/availability at Fenway are all not fun.
I still love it though, because even at its performance low, the Sox can still brighten up a day just by playing. And I'll take that. While I may never be the perfect Red Sox fan, I'm content in just being the best fan I can be, watching the boys in Red rock this city like no other. :)
There have been times that I have questioned whether or not I've *truly* been in love. I have certainly thought it a few more times, but my heart didn't truly swell and I wasn't about to do ANYTHING for them.
When I ponder the loves of my life (plural), I consider...
My boyfriend in high school- Josh- this sk8r boi who was the polar opposite of me but made me laugh. Until he dumped me for a sk8r gurl and left me crying in the hallways of the school.
Mark, who was a pitcher for a college in Boston who I dated on and off (mostly off) for 10 years, and who I will always have a special spot in my heart for, even though he's married now with a baby (because I knew him first).
There's Matt, who I would love dearly if his life wasn't such a clusterflick and wouldn't bring me down. I do love him...just not in THAT way.
When I was watching the Red Sox last night, I knew it was love. My heart would swell when they would come up, and it would ache whenever they were thisclose to getting the plays right or the balls out.
Sure, it's silly to be in love with a baseball team, and a sport as a whole. What can I say? Fenway Park has been the perfect date spot for as long as I can remember. Just me, and the men in uniform.
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7/28/2008
Manny, you're making the rest of the team look bad. Stop being a d-bag, and earn your money.
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There are few things in life that outweigh my love for the Red Sox.
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ok, ok, my son...
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yeah that's about it.
I've been with you since as long as I can remember, through the highs and the lows. I will never leave a game early to beat the crowd. I will always be faithful and defend your honor to the haters out there. Thank you for everything...my first love, my true love...the Red Sox!
Oh, Red Sox. You are no longer the scrappy team of underdogs of yesteryear.
The rabid fans make it almost embarrassing to admit I'm from Boston in the first place. And the overenthusiasm bleeds unnecessarily into other situations (for example, people yelling "Yankees suck!!" at every sports event, not limited to baseball).
I think the worst part about it is my grandmother can't even go to games anymore, the fans are literally too vicious for her sensibilities. It breaks my heart a bit, since she has been going to games at Fenway since she was a kid and absolutely loves baseball.
Overrated ball club? Check.
Overpaid players? Check.
Bandwagon fans? Check.
ANNOYING bandwagon fans? Check, check, and oh - CHECK.
News flash: anyone living ouside of Boston hates this team with a passion.
The Sox are the new Yankees. Suck on that one.
Like most New Englanders, I was thrust into the role of a Boston Red Sox fan the instant I was born. Irish ethnicity, father from Concord MA, mother from northern CT.
Nothing in the world can give me the same ups and downs as the Red Sox. They make me smile uncontrollably at times (Remember when the whole team cold-shouldered Kevin Youkilis after his first big league homerun?) Then there are those moments that I want to cry and I end up vomiting in my trashcan (2003 ALCS much?)
Yeah, the tickets may be ridiculously expensive and the influx of 'pink hats' has become a bit annoying. But none of that is really important though. The important part is that I love the Boston Red Sox, regardless of 86 years of misery or 2 championships in 4 years.
As the 115th review for my beloved Sox, there's not a whole lot I can say that hasn't been said a bajillion times before. But as my 100th review crept up *yahooey 100!*, how fitting for me to review a team I've loved for as long as I can remember, during their 100-year anniversary. You just gotta love the Sox.
If you're from Boston (New England, really), love for the Sox is pretty much a religion. They're the team to root for blindly, be crushed when they get slammed, be psyched when they win big.
I guess I have my Papa to thank for my Sox-love. His "C'mon, score, you bunch of BUMS!!" and "HOT DOG!!!" with every hit/ home run/ grand slam was so passionate, it always made me chuckle. The forever rivalry with the Yankees just sucks you in. "Curse of the Bambino", and the 86-year drought makes it all seem more magical. And as corny as it may sound, there's just something in the air when you walk into Fenway Park. It's like all that history and legacy is all around you.
Maybe it's that I was born in '75, too. *Born to be a Sox fan, right?* Goooooo SOX!!!
If there's such a thing as Heaven, I know exactly what you'll find there:
John Henry, Tom Werner, Larry Lucchino and Theo Epstein stuck in a virtual waiting room for all eternity, constantly refreshing brower windows, switching between Firefox, IE and Netscape and rebooting after freezes and crashes.
Maybe once every one thousand years, one of them will be allowed to leave the room and go to a Sox game, but only after paying $500 for a sweaty bleacher seat in the 102 degree heat in July.
After leaving their $75 parking spot, of course.
Go $ox.
My 300th review is dedicated to my beloved Red Sox. If you know absolutely ANYTHING about me, then you know it's appropriate.
I was born in the year of the Buckner, so it's destiny that I became a Red Sox fan obviously.
My first game was with my Dad when I was in the 2nd grade. I don't remember specifics, but I remember it was one of the best times of my life!
Fast forward to around 2002-2003. That's when the Red Sox started to grow even more. I watched the entirety of the 2003 season. And when that @#(%&#$%@ Boone hit that god forsaken home run, I cried, I yelled, I wanted to kill someone (namely Boone, Pedro, and Little, all in that order). I was completely heartbroken. But I was also hooked. Although, I refused to buy a pink hat and it's a good thing I don't smoke because every time I see one I want to light it on fire.
2004 - The year that finally came. I was so excited to go to a few games that season. And I watched every.single.payoff.game. I agonized with the rest of the people in my dorm (it was my freshman year of college) and the first 3 games were terrifying and exhilarating. The next 4 games were a blur. The World Series even more so. I was one of the thousands of thousands that joined in the celebration 86 years waiting. No more asking, Is this the year?
2005-2006- Yes they sucked big time, but as a true Red Sox fan, you should expect no less. Some of those pink hat fans fell off the bandwagon, and who cares, because we don't need them
2007 - Holy crap. No one saw that coming. Tell any Red Sox fan if they thought the Red Sox would win not one but TWO World Series Championships in the span of 4 years and they would have thought you were speaking another language.
My favorite part of the Red Sox is that ever year there is a pulse to the team. I hate when the Red Sox get compared to the Yankees, because they aren't anything like the Yankees. Whether it was Cowboy Up, or the Idiots, or the crazy Pap dance, there's a character to the Red Sox that I don't see in any other team. This team cares about each other and their fans like no other team I've ever seen. Call them money grubbing assholes, call them just another one of those teams that will pay top dollar for anyone. But then look at their farm system and look at the heart that these players have, and you just know it's genuine. Say what you want about the Red Sox, but I love them no matter what!
Go Red Sox!!
I like baseball, but I LOVE the Boston Red Sox.
If you grow up in New England, you are immersed in it from day one. You don't even realize it, but it seeps into your every poor. If and when you leave the Commonwealth, it hits you in the face just how much a thing like a baseball team, a place like Fenway or an experience like a game can hold for you.
I love the Red Sox and I can't wait to get home and watch games with my friends and family.
0 Stars if it was possible. Not only do they have the biggest loud mouth fans, they are the new kings of buying championships.
Like a previous reviewer, I think they are definitely the most obnoxious bunch--hard to believe someone worse than the Yankee fan, but it's true. They can take Manny Ramirez and his home run poses and stickem up their asses.
Red Sox = Boston's version of the New York Yankees.
A year ago I would have given them 3, maybe 4 stars.
And then they won the world series.
And then all I hear is how great they are nonstop for 2 months. About how the Red Sox are America's team. Sorry to burst Bostonians' bubbles, but everybody hates the Sox almost as much as they hate the Yankees.
Stars will be replaced when Sox fans start to admit that the team is only good because they spend tons of money to buy talent rather than build it.
True love lasts a lifetime, and I will always love the Sox!!!!!
For my 600th review, I would like to pause and write an homage to my home-town team, the Boston Red Sox, World Series Champions 2007.
Living in Chicago, I have the distinct pleasure of avoiding all of the hype associated with the Sox. While many who live in the hub can't avoid the coverage, here it is all too easy to ignore the joy that is the Sox - at least in the regular season.
I too was raised a Red Sox fan, though I believe my family took me to only 1 game while I was growing up. My fandom evolved into fanaticism when I went to grad school in Chicago, where the team to root for was the Cubs. The Cubs? Seriously, the Cubs. I dug my heels in, found a few other die-hard Sox fans, and began following the Sox with a fervor that I can only rationalize as an act of rebellion and a distraction from the grind that was school.
In 2004 I had the luck to be working for a company that had offices in every baseball city in the country. I saw the Sox play the Mariners (and lose) in Seattle. And I managed to wrangle a ticket for World Series game #3 in St. Louis. I high fived with the strangers in front of me every time the Sox scored. The Cardinals fans (who escorted me to the game) were demoralized and crushed. I never saw them again.
Sox Fans now have a bad reputation that is neither deserved nor fair. As a Sox fan in a Cubs/White Sox office (2005 wasn't a bad year at work...jeans day almost daily in October....) I do my best to maintain a low profile. There are no Sox banners hanging from my cube, obnoxious emails to my department crowing my team's victory. Oh no. That's bad form.
Instead I have a small refrigerator magnet that I hang next to my name plate. Easily ignored, it signals to other Sox fans in the office that one of their own works there.
I'll always be one of the Faithful.
You could do a lot better than going with this business. Don't let the customer loyalty fool you -- they've failed to deliver over 90% of the time. Their competitors are a little bit further up the road, but the higher reliability makes going that extra distance a no-brainer.
These guys do get an extra star for the nice building in which they conduct business, but buyer beware, as their product is the most expensive in the country, and over the long term among the least reliable. You'd do well to shop elsewhere.
5 stars for the team AND the fans. I always lived in two-team cities (NY, SF), but I love that Boston has one baseball team and the enthusiasm behind it. I grew up a Mets fan which means I hate the Yankees which means I like the Red Sox.
Go Sox and boo to the killjoys who come here to criticize the team and its fans.
Signing the top import players, humiliating the Yankees in the first month, running away from the pack, having players who sound like breakfast cereal, advertising Dunkin Donuts in Kanji, making the playoffs, drunken river-dancing pitchers, coming back in the ALCS, converting me and my mum into baseball fans, sweeping the World Series, flipping over cars, parading through town on duck boats, a million people on the streets, and getting free tacos at my local taco bell with Ellsbury serving.
Pretty good stuff for a newbie to Boston.
THIS HAPPENS EVERY YEAR, RIGHT?
I suppose some congratulations are in order. You bandwagon jerks have finally done it. Life-long Sox fan here who can barely stomach going to games or watching on TV. If I may quote the movie Crash, "You embarrass me, you embarrass yourselves."
I probably go to 15-20 Sox games a year. Take the Green Line in, and every time (legitimately every single time this year), someone dressed head to toe in Red Sox garb asks me what stop to get off for Fenway. Sometimes I get it more than once. Good grief. On Opening Day this year the woman sitting next to me spent 2 innings pontificating that it was a disgrace that they didn't retire Trot Nixon's number. And she was serious. Retire Trot Nixon's number! Dwight Evans would have vomited for an hour had he heard that idiot's lengthy diatribe.
Also, the lack of availability/high price of tickets makes it such that most people can only get to Fenway once or twice a year. So, of course, they treat it like they have tickets to a Jimmy Buffet concert, and get properly smashed to celebrate the occasion. I last went to the Tuesday game against the DRays, and the 6 people surrounding me (in pretty nice seats, mind you), were all over 45 years old and all so drunk they could barely stand up. On a Tuesday night. Against Tampa Bay.
The road games are even worse. They're practically home games now, replete with grown men and women bringing "Hey Don and Jerry, I'm a jerk, put me on TV" signs. Doing "Yankees Suck" chants in Arizona b/c that's what they think real Boston fans do. And BTW, does someone give Jerry Remy 20 bucks every time he complains about traveling? Yeah, life is tough, Jerry. Those chartered flights and first class hotels would be too much hassle for anyone.
I could go on forever. The fans, goaded by the WEEI morons, turning on Damon for spurning a "take this offer and shove it" contract offer from the Sox to accept 12 million more from the Yankees, like we all would have stayed in Boston in that circumstance. Anyone wonder why Johnny isn't playing much CF for NY? Probably b/c he played his heart out here for 4 years, played hurt, and isn't the same. I was at that game when he returned and it made me sick. Booing an all-star like Damon and cheering a stiff like Doug Mirabelli like it was the Beatles debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. I can guarantee they'll all turn on Manny after his contract runs out, after 8 hall of fame years.
These clowns may chant "Yankees Suck", but the Sox have become just as bad as the Yankees, and the true fans know it. Here's hoping for some mediocre seasons and/or people embracing another team, anything to return the team back to the real baseball fans.
One name, Julio Lugo.
Until he goes we are only a 4 star team!
My 200th review and Opening Day were on a crash course for destiny.
I grew up in New York. I come from a family that consists of nothing but die hard Yankees fans. I grew up watching them every day. Season tickets on the third base line.
Then how is it that this girl is one of the biggest Sox fans you'll meet? Because they suck you in. There is always some sort of drama, be it good or bad, but that enamors you to the team and keeps you on your seat waiting for what will happen next. For my time and money there is no better show in town. (Sometimes I refer to it as the Big Papi Show) Red Sox fans are a different breed of baseball fans that not even Yankees fans can compare to. They know their players inside and out, they know baseball inside and out. (Ok, well, maybe they don't understand NL baseball that much) I appreciate that. They are hopelessly romantic though, almost to the point of being irrational (THEY SOLD OUTFIELD SOD TO FANS AND PEOPLE BOUGHT IT!), but you know what? I love them even more for it.
I find it strange that Yelp lets you review sports teams. The Red Sox are now so enormously popular you have to be living under a rock to not know a little bit about the team.
I've been a big Red Sox fan since growing up in Massachusetts in the 1980's. I followed Dwight Evans, Marty Barrett, Wade Boggs, and the rest of the gang when I was a kid.
I resent how, even in DC, there's Red Sox fans everywhere. I want to ask these "fans", where were they 10 years ago? I was a fan before it was fashionable.
The Red Sox are a New England institution. Summer is listening to the Sox on the radio while driving to the Cape.
The Red Sox just have a totally different feel to them compared to the teams of the 80's and 90's. Now the team is more well-rounded and not just built on scoring a lot of runs.
Even though I don't live in New England anymore, I still watch the Red Sox through the MLB.TV service.
I was going to give the Red Sox 5 stars, because I think they are a part of what makes the Yankees so great and vice-versa. Without the rivalry and hatred, things wouldn't be as much fun.
But then I went to review the Yankees and all I saw were Red Sox and Mets fans giving them one star and saying stuff like, "Go Red Sox! We love Big Papi!"
So there you go. That's why Red Sox fans are the most pathetic, annoying, clueless fans in baseball. Congrats on sucking so bad that you've made people hate you more than they hate Yankee fans now. Even your own fans hate most of you.
The Red Sox can suck an egg.
Thank you for giving everyone the perfect example of fat, middle aged, never had a prime, miserable, made too many bad choices sports fan that everyone hates. Now I know it's not just me.
It's just a game people. Think those players give a damn about you?
Get some real idols like the rare (nonexistent) Boston politician that isn't on the take or the firefighter that saves people's lives and doesn't go on tv about it.
The fact that the city bases so much pride on an institution that wrongfully uses taxpayer dollars, clogs streets, starts fights and, yes, even kills people, is really telling.
Go SOX!
I didnt think it would be so deeply soul-satysfying to see how mediocre the yankees perform.
Let me preface what follows by saying first and foremost that I love the Sox. I grew up watching them on TV with my grandfather and the first time I got to go to Fenway was one of the best memories of my life. I cried when they won the world series, something I had waited for my whole life.
I am angry at the Sox now, however.
I recently moved back to Boston after many years. I was extremely excited about the start of baseball season this year because I would actually be able to watch the Sox play throughout the Summer, rather than having to be satisfied with seeing only the handful of games that they played against the A's (I lived in SF). I then discovered that the decision was made to yank TV coverage of the games and to show them ONLY on cable. Not even just basic cable mind you, which wouldn't be so horrible, but the $50/month, donate-my-first-born-for-the-privilege-of-watching -the-F'ing-American-pastime comcast package. Their spokesperson said that they wanted to end the era of "giving everybody free tickets" by broadcasting the games. I must say, thats a load of greedy bull-$#*%.
True, for the past few years, the TV coverage had been limited to only the Friday night games, but at least that was something. At least the multi-millionaire aristocrats who run the Sox franchise were gracious enough to throw a bone to all the old folks on fixed incomes and the kids in the projects who couldn't afford cable, but still loved their team (and, as one journalist pointed out, who probably need the Sox more than anyone else). Now they've taken even that away to try to force such folks into making the decision between groceries and keeping the comcast bill up to date. I hear they pay good money for a pint of blood, maybe that's a solution? Seems to me like the message here is clear: poor people aren't welcome to be Red Sox fans anymore.
It's almost enough to make me a Yankee fan.
How can you grow up in the Boston area and not like the Red Sox?? Well, aside from their ticketing policies, but that's a whole different story. Fenway is so much fun to go to and they're just a fun team to root for all round. And YES, I have been a fan since before 2004 (back into the Duquette days)...I threw my remote at the TV when Boone hit that homer in 2003. Sports bring out a violent side of me. And NO, I do not wear pink Red Sox apparel. No, no, NO unless you are a five year old girl.
As for the Sox being the new Yankees, come on. Do John Henry and co. sign random ex-Yankees just for the hell of it (Bellhorn, Embree, etc.), make his players shave their facial hair and be clean-cut and tidy (it's BASEBALL for crying out loud, I work in a professional environment and people have beards!), and blame every damn thing that goes wrong on the GM/manager/whomever happens to be standing nearby?? I very much enjoy the rivalry between the Yankees and Sox (and thus can't stand the Yankees), but the only thing I really genuinely dislike and disrespect about the Yankees is Steinbrenner.
As for the Sox buying all their talent, Manny's been around since Duquette, Ortiz was nowhere even REMOTELY close to the player he is today when he signed, and Papelbon, Pedroia, Ellsbury, Youkilis, Buchholz, Lester, Delcarmen....do I really need to say any more? The Sox sign Daisuke and all of a sudden they buy all their players (and ok, Drew was a bad idea). The Sox win and all of a sudden they're sell outs, just like anything else...
I'll admit to the Patriots having some questionable stuff going on, but the Sox? Nah....they're my team. :)
Oh the Red Sox. 86 years of suffering, 4 years of kick-assness. How do I feel about thee?
As a fan of the Oakland Athletics I really hate to say nice things about the current champs and the team that really is dominating baseball 2008 but I can't help it. The Red Sox are NOT the new Yankees. I still hate the Yankees way more than I could hate the Sox. Here are a few reasons why:
-Seeing Sox Gear On Everyone: The red and blue looks good on you Boston, everyone wears a Red Sox shirt in this town and you guys look good in them, cool confident, it works.
-Fenway Park: Fenway is right in the middle of this town and it's like the beating heart of Boston in the summertime. There's something magical about paying $50 on stubhub for a really uncomfortable seat in the third to last row out in the right field grandstand and watching the Sox clobber their opponent to death.
-Wally: Maybe it's because I just saw WALL-E but I really enjoyed seeing Sox fans clamour over your big green mascot and yell his name.
-Manny and Big Papi: Sure, they are overpayed superstars but they get the job done and they smile and Manny has a whole lot hair.
So yeah, I can't really like the Sox but I can't hate them either. Just destroy the rest of the AL (Yankees, Rays, Angels, Twins) for the A's and we'll gladly get together in October. Great!
Not going back until after a few years of back-to-back sub-.500 seasons.
Place is full of wealthy, drunk, pink-hat wearing trend-followers. "Did you hear, Buffy? It's totally chic to be a Sox fan these days!" "I know Chad, we should totally go to games. It's the place to get seen!"
Piss off. I'll be at minor league games for a few summers, with the remaining "baseball" fans.
I love the Red Sox and i love the number 4. and you should too. Why, you ask? take a gander:
* the Red Sox swept FOUR games against the yankees in the year two thousand FOUR
* the Red Sox hit FOUR home runs in a row against the yankees
* manny wears number twenty FOUR
* ortiz wears number thirty FOUR
need i go on? and i think i may need a life after this.
Boston Red Sox!!
Oh How I Love Thee...Let me count the ways:
-Fenway franks, at fenway paaaak super-cede all others, its worth the 10 bucks.
-Any beer whether pissaa warm or skunked, tastes good while watching a sox game.
-You break our hearts, but you always redeem
-The fans are wicked, wicked, I mean wicked awesome
-Big Papi is the freakin bomb!
-The Yankees are just miserable....
-We swept you last weekend and we will do it again
-I have found a reason to love, Thank you.
If they won the World Series every year, they would be the Yankees, and that means that we would be in New York, and we would be Yankees fans...and that just sucks.
Boston IS baseball. All the time. Not just when they are good. Take it from a Detroit transplant that used to be lured to Comerica park for the baseball game included free with your purchase of tickets to the post game fireworks show...
Why is this even a category on Yelp? How can you really rate your local sports team. haha.
I love taking my younger cousins who are DIE HARD Sox fans to games. Sitting in the old chairs in Fenway reminds me of those little things that made me so happy when I was a kid too. (awww, nostalgia). At any rate I think it's an important thing to do...and thank God for eBay and cheap tickets...haha.
I grew up in Boston rooting for the home team. Year after painful year. It was the Red Sox who shattered my childhood innocence and taught me the world wasn't a fair place where evil was vanquished and the 'two lived happily ever after' always.
Things have obviously changed significantly since then and arguably I have become less cynical. Well, at least from March to October.
In recent years my passion for the Red Sox has only increased under the ownership of John Henry. I now work for a non-profit which is partnered with the Red Sox.
The Boston Red Sox have always been a model of philanthropy in professional sports in the United States. Under John Henry the amount of effort and money the Red Sox have invested in the community has only increased with the addition of the Red Sox foundation. The team currently has four philanthropic arms where most teams only have one or none. In Boston we take this level of community involvement and generosity for granted but it is more the exception than the rule.
Sure you may not care much for sports, but the generosity the Red Sox have shown speaks highly of the kind of people working there and the culture of the organization.
HA HA HA. I just wanted to see if you could even review the Red Sox, but then, this is Boston, how can you not?
Before I get all sports geeky, I have a friend who works for Fenway High School, and the Red Sox organization has been incredibly charitable with them, and I think that kind of rocks. I don't know enough about sports to know how common community involvement or philanthropy are with other teams, but I think it's neat that they put money into Boston's educational system. Plus I think it's cool how players past and present like Williams, Garciaparra, Damon, Schilling, Beckett, Youk, etc also get into the community/charity spirit. Growing up in NY, I don't ever remember hearing the Yankees doing anything like that.
I however hold a giant grudge against the Sox for breaking the curse when I was living in England. Every day my husband and I would come home from work, go to bed at 5pm and then wake up at 1 or 2 am to watch the playoffs. It was ridiculous of us to do, but we were die hard enough to screw our sleep schedules and incur mockery from our coworkers when we'd go to our respective jobs all red eyed and exhausted.
I hate the pink t-shirt batallion though, you make the rest of us female sports fans look goofy.
