Comments on: The Big Hurt

By: Yankster

Yankster — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:48:52 +0000

As disgusted as I am by anything sux, and I’m really in a deep hate, there will always be a difference between your guy being one of the first five league MVPs currently active involved in a brand new fresh scandal and having your stars (one of whom doesn’t even play for the team anymore) come up as being part of a years old stale scandal. Fresh scandal is legitimately more emotional, in my opinion, than adding on.

Now, they might show some grace and say, yeah, I shouldn’t have poured it on so thick last time, but I doubt the sux are up showing grace. Not part of the brand.

[5] I also have complete faith in Jeter. that son of B. better not let me down! I want to keep dreaming.

By: Shaun P.

Shaun P. — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:24:22 +0000

[1] [6] I’d take exception to that line too. The vast majority of Sox fans I know – at least the ones who didn’t “magically” become fans sometime in October 2004 – are quite knowledgeable, not only about Red Sox history but the history of the entire game.

No, the real issue is what Joel identifies in [3], and what I called the “Rodney Harrison” treatment yesterday. PED use is only a big deal in vast swaths of Red Sox Nation when its “the other guy” who did it. When its one of their own, well sir/ma’am, let’s just move on, the past is past – and didn’t you know that PEDs don’t really help baseball and football players? Why look at all the scrubs who used and got nowhere!

Rodney Harrison got a mostly free pass on his hGH use from many, many Sox fans and New England media types – sports and otherwise – who later bemoaned how horrible and evil A-Rod was for using PEDs and lying about it. If it had been Peyton Manning, or any big name who played for the 2007 Giants, and not a Patriot, the offender would have been hung in effigy, and we may well have seen mobs with torches and pitchforks in the streets.

This is not true of all Sox/Pats fans – but sanctimony does reign supreme in some quarters of RSN, and certainly in lots of media spaces. Note that there are plenty of hypocritical Yankee fans too – not so much in the media though.

By: jonnystrongleg

jonnystrongleg — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:16:02 +0000

[7] Though it’s not up to me whether RSN gets off easy, I certainly care more about the 2009 pennant race than who has the perceived moral high ground until the next revelation.

let RSN struggle amongst themselves and enjoy first plavce as long as the yanks can hold it.

By: Cru Jones

Cru Jones — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:04:15 +0000

[2] no way RSN gets off that easy…..after all that 2004 crap about “no i can die in peace” and “if only my grandfather could have lived to see this day”, basically the entire RSN orgy, looks incredibly ridiculous now. sox fans are so self-righteous about their team and their history. no longer.

sure, RSN will always have the world series wins, but the joy is gone. forever.

By: jakegr1

jakegr1 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:01:17 +0000

“the problem with the SOX fans is that they only root for the home team and don’t really follow or know anything about the game or its history. Perspective is a word alien to their vocabulary.”

Have you been to the yankees lhblog? Have you read the type of yankee fan that comments there? II find it ironic that you label the entire red sox fan base one way, while ignoring your own backyard.

You might want to look into the word ‘perspective’.

By: a.O

a.O — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:54:37 +0000

I have complete faith in Derek Jeter.

And I sincerely hope Roid Sox fans now have some glimmer of just how obnoxious and hypocritical they are.

By: Simone

Simone — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:43:07 +0000

I have my fingers crossed that Derek Jeter does not test positive or get caught, but not holding my breath.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:33:25 +0000

When A-Rod’s name came up on the 2003 list there was real anger, disgust, vitriol and a nationally televised Peter Gammons mea culpa interview. With Ortiz there is sadness and a resignation that “they all did it.”

Talk about double standards.

By: jonnystrongleg

jonnystrongleg — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:31:00 +0000

my red sox fan brother said he’d rather ortiz got busted AND hit game winning homer yesterday than not get busted AND not hit the homer.

as soon as the yanks dropped the game in the standings last night, this was strctly rear-view mirror stuff.

By: The Mick536

The Mick536 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:21:37 +0000

You cannot believe the tears from the Nation. Living here in VT (my residence for the past ten years), I take more crap about being a Yankee fan than you can imagine. I have compiled a list of comments that serve as icebreakers which I won’t bore or entertain you with, but sufice it to say the dialogue hasn’t been pretty. But today, the Faithful pass me in the street with heads bowed. I want to say something kind, but cannot bring myself to do it because of the abuse I have taken. On the simplest plain, the problem with the SOX fans is that they only root for the home team and don’t really follow or know anything about the game or its history. Perspective is a word alien to their vocabulary.

Off to see Funny People this stormy afternoon. The next rain, we will see The Hurt Locker.