I blame Sweet Caroline
Maxim has a preseason feature called Why Baseball Won’t Suck in 2009, and one of the reasons why, they say, is because it’s now okay to hate the Beantowners:
Against all odds, the past few years have seen the Red Sox finally beat out the Yanks not only in the standings but as baseball’s most loathsome team. And they’re only getting worse. If owner John Henry’s whining wasn’t bad enough, in the past year Theo Epstein & Co. pulled in a raft of Curt Schilling lookalikes, slamming the door on the era when talented, mercurial nonwhite stars carried the Sox and bewildered the Fenway faithful.
Hmmm. I always thought Chicago was the home of the Pale Hose.
Then again, accusations of racism were made against Tom Yawkey, too.
hatless in hattiesburg »
19 March 2009 · 11:04 pm
In all the ballgames I’ve been to, Red Sox fans are certainly the most obnoxious I’ve had the misfortune to be around. Several years ago, my family had seats a few rows in front of four loud, lewd, and drunken louts from beantown. When management finally threw them out (around the sixth inning), the three surrounding sections applauded.