Red Sox Thing

[BostonSucksMyBalls]

Cleveland counts, the rest dont. Maybe Seattle. Milwaukee has the packers, who won in 1996. get the FUCK out of my face with the Cubs and Giants nonsense. San Diego doesnt count bc of the weather and the faggot transplants...

[Dthefritz]

Really, the quality of the fan-base has less to do with the performance of the team than the quality of the fans. Bostonians are front-running douchebags in every sport regardless of how their team performs. How many patriots flags were in cars before 2001? When Mike Bibby called out the Celtics fans in 2008 asking where they had been the previous decade, he was on to something. I doubt the Bruins were packing stadiums before their recent success.
I don't like this "suffering is enobling" strand in sportswriting. Losing does not make better fans. Being knowledgeable and loyal makes better fans and in time the winning and losing will in most cases even out to show who's good.

[Brandon Donovan]

He stood there impassively, handsome as always, looking the same way he always does, like the guy whose at-bat music should be Lady Gaga's "Poker Face."

You know how I know Phil's gay?

ETA:

It's the first Red Sox team without a truly compelling player since 1993 -- when we went 80-82 -- and even then, we had a young Mo Vaughn (29 homers, .915 OPS) and Roger Clemens launching his loathsome "I just got paid, I'm gonna start puttin' on weight, I haven't been introduced to performance-enhancing drugs yet and this will all culminate with me pitchin' hard for three months three years from now, signin' with Toronto, 'roided up (allegedly) and winnin' two straight Cy Youngs, then joinin' the Yankees so I can win myself some cheap rings" stretch in which he was realizing himself as a selfish (word I can't print), only nobody wanted to admit it yet.

Phil's grammar begins to falter as his vag gets sandier, apparently.

[ComplexLitigations]

Cleveland counts, the rest dont. Maybe Seattle. Milwaukee has the packers, who won in 1996. get the FUCK out of my face with the Cubs and Giants nonsense. San Diego doesnt count bc of the weather and the faggot transplants...

I'd count Seattle. They had the Supersonics ripped away from them and the Mariners always suck.

[nasty nova]

Yeah, but they won Super Bowl XL. Warrants mentioning.

[IhateTomBrady]

This column was great. The content itself was horrible but knowing it came from the biggest frontrunner from the biggest front running city made it so great. I bet real Red Sox fans probably want to permanently mute Simmons after stupid shit like this column.

[Bricks]

I wonder if this column was Simpson's response to those who've been on his case about ignoring baseball.

[Montecore's Revenge]

The stuff at the beginning - whatever. The time of game stuff is a big deal, and something has GOT to be done about this. The next generation of potential baseball fans is already thinning. Obviously, some of Simmons' suggestions are implausible, but I agree with the sentiment.

[Booharv]

I will never give up my belief that Simpson single-handedly made MLB like 20% more popular across the board in the 2003-2004 range, and beyond. Faggott Nation would have never hatched. Ppl in other cities wouldnt pretend to like the Cubbies. Other cities like Philthy decided that it was cool to like baseball....and SO ON AND SO ON.

MLB had its run. Now it an go back to being the 2nd (at best) rate sport that it is, and we can stop pretending its more exciting than watching grass grow.

Nationally, it is clearly number 3 behind the NFL and College Football. If NYC was not such a huge baseball town, then I would say it would be a distant 4 behind the NBA. Though, even as Simmons pointed out, there is not one baseball player alive who could ever have generated the interest in a team change like LeBron did. The NBA has WAY more nationally recognized players that MLB.

Among American sports what is basketball worldwide? It has to be number one, right? Baseball is number two, then NFL aka American Football. I would say Basketball is number one from the jersey sales in China plus the Euroleague/European stars and the South American stars (Ginobili, Splitter, Scola etc).

[Seahawks XL Champs]

Yeah, but they won Super Bowl XL. Warrants mentioning.

Good point. Oh, you mean they got FUCKED in Super Bowl 40. Anyway, I assume Nova that this comment was for me so I'll congratulate you.

I mainly object, as others have mentioned, to the St. Louis comments by Simmons. Not only was there never one mention of Cardinals fans suffering, the Rams had won a Super Bowl in the last decade and the Cardinals are in the playoffs every stinkin' year.

This was not the worst article he ever wrote, but it was the most boring. I found myself skipping ahead paragraphs for the first time ever reading his column and never could get back into it. I do root for the Red Sox casually as my brother wrestled at BU from 99-02 during the height of the Pedro era and it was exciting watching him pitch. If I had enough in my heart to have a favorite team in any other sport (the Seahawks take too much out of me) if might be the Red Sox. But, Bill couldn't make them interesting for me today....maybe that was his point though.

[Theny]

Jike- do me some research, take the phils, the sox, and a couple of other teams and provide their tv ratings for the past 5-10 years. My bet is that it will expose Boston and their fans for being the front running douchebags that we know them to be

NESN ratings are down, that's for sure.

As much shit as the Marlins get, their TV ratings are outstanding. Why I have no idea.

[The Long Dick of the Law]

Jike- do me some research, take the phils, the sox, and a couple of other teams and provide their tv ratings for the past 5-10 years. My bet is that it will expose Boston and their fans for being the front running douchebags that we know them to be

NESN ratings are down, that's for sure.

As much shit as the Marlins get, their TV ratings are outstanding. Why I have no idea.

Cubanos love some beisbol. But seriously, I can't go off on this article like I want because it'll be a fucking diatribe. Simba's a fuckhead. Way to write your first baseball article in over a year and only 2nd in probably over 2 years. This guy violates his "5 year grace period for champs" more than Jeremy Green violates toddlers. The one other thing I'll say is holy fuck, really, you're gonna bitch about JD Drew's lack of emotional response? Fuck you, take Melky and McClouth and I'll take JD's bat and arm and glove and robotic response to everything. He's fucking good and not everyone needs their players to react to every play like it's life or death. That's usually not what you want to see in your stars. Magic Johnson talks about how in his first NBA game (IIRC, sometime very early in his career), Kareem hit a game winner at the buzzer and Magic went nuts and Kareem said to him, "Dude it's just one game," and that stuck with him. I don't recall seeing Albert Pujols go insane over every fucking hit or run and he's the best player in baseball. How the player responsible for the hit/run/amazing play reacts doesn't affect how I react or love the game.

In conclusion, Simba is a tool. Go watch bachelors or bachelorettes overreact to fucking roses.

[Dthefritz]

Jike- do me some research, take the phils, the sox, and a couple of other teams and provide their tv ratings for the past 5-10 years. My bet is that it will expose Boston and their fans for being the front running douchebags that we know them to be

NESN ratings are down, that's for sure.

As much shit as the Marlins get, their TV ratings are outstanding. Why I have no idea.

Cubanos love some beisbol. But seriously, I can't go off on this article like I want because it'll be a fucking diatribe. Simba's a fuckhead. Way to write your first baseball article in over a year and only 2nd in probably over 2 years. This guy violates his "5 year grace period for champs" more than Jeremy Green violates toddlers. The one other thing I'll say is holy fuck, really, you're gonna bitch about JD Drew's lack of emotional response? Fuck you, take Melky and McClouth and I'll take JD's bat and arm and glove and robotic response to everything. He's fucking good and not everyone needs their players to react to every play like it's life or death. That's usually not what you want to see in your stars. Magic Johnson talks about how in his first NBA game (IIRC, sometime very early in his career), Kareem hit a game winner at the buzzer and Magic went nuts and Kareem said to him, "Dude it's just one game," and that stuck with him. I don't recall seeing Albert Pujols go insane over every fucking hit or run and he's the best player in baseball. How the player responsible for the hit/run/amazing play reacts doesn't affect how I react or love the game.

In conclusion, Simba is a tool. Go watch bachelors or bachelorettes overreact to fucking roses.

I did think he had a decent point how the chest-pounding KG types make baseball players seem boring by comparison even if it's unfair.

That being said, I remember a JackO podcast where the two of them were talking about how much the Yankees were going to miss Melky Cabrera. For fuck's sake, it's fun to have guys like that on your team, but he's not particularly good at baseball.

[The Long Dick of the Law]

There is nothing fun about Melky Cabrera on your baseball team. Fuck Melky. Fuck him right in his little fucking poo hole. Simba's a fucktard and Melky sucks at baseball.

[BostonSucksMyBalls]

Jike- do me some research, take the phils, the sox, and a couple of other teams and provide their tv ratings for the past 5-10 years. My bet is that it will expose Boston and their fans for being the front running douchebags that we know them to be

are you saying that phillies 'fans' are not frontrunning douches? REALLY? Jike, get that hotties tit out yo mouth and do this research. The Phillies ratings are going to be exactly what PJ is predicting for Bostons.