Open "I Hate Red Sox v. Yankees" thread

by BlackDougal on Apr 28, 2007 1:59 PM PDT

If anyone else is enduring 2007 rivalry game no. 2,387 between NY and Bos, share your glorying in the most magicalest game in da uniberse. Just ask Fox announcers, 2 in the stadium and three sitting in the studio hoping nothing happens anywhere else in baseball to take them away from this holy clash.

I lived in NYC for 4 years and adopted the Yankees then (92-95, when they were lame and it wasn't fashionable), so I don't hate them but I am sick to death of seeing them playing the Red Sox.

My list therefore tilts towards the annoyances re the Sox but feel free to tilt back. I won't protest.

The Great Ketchup Sock controversy. Stupid then, stupid and irrelevant now.

"Big Papi". Do we need to hyperventilate over a DH? Where's Ron Blomberg when we need him?

Other overdone nicknames, particularly Dice-K, clearly vomited from the depths of some Beantown marketing firm envisioning those stupid fan signs with drawings of dice on them. One of the alleged commentators actually said "On-deckie Matsui" when the Yankee hitter was in the on deck circle.

All the bellyaching fans, both the Sox annoyers and those Yankees cretins that fill up the Coliseum 3 times per year. Oh for the good old days when A's fans threw cherry bombs instead of batteries, sending Rick Cerone scurrying for cover in the bullpen.

Thrilling tidbits like the fact that Dustin Pedroia played ping pong with Brady Quinn as a segway to talking about the NFL draft. For crap's sake.

Having orgasms over Tim Wakefield's knuckleball. I like knuckleballs, but it's not like he invented the stupid thing. (Note to self: write letter to Sabean begging him to sign Steve Sparks).

MOST ODIOUS: That ridiculous captain C on Mirabelli's jersey (which I actually didn't see today). I know he's a former Giant and don't mind him, but I still wish Ray Bourque and Mark Messier would cross check him and tear that thing off, then start on those NBA poseurs that wear them.

Pick your most odious. I don't think I can bear it anymore.

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Hate is all you need

The fact that Mirabelli has such a rabid fandom makes me scratch my head. Red Sox fans are a weird lot.

Strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they're fascist. Not boring: Emmanuel Burriss. Not fascist: SF Dugout

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Apr 28, 2007 2:34 PM PDT reply actions

Yes, we KNOW you're from B______

There are two places in the U.S. that prompt people who hail from them to constantly remind you that they hail from them: Boston and the Bronx. Apparently being from either area supercedes occupation, personality, hobbies, talents, political/social philosophy, turns-ons, turn-offs, et al as the most important identifying characteristic of said natives. And I have a hunch that those two bloated, beknighted, and utterly tiresome franchises have something to do with it.

For just pennies a day, you too can make a difference in the life of a Giants player...like Kevin Correia.

by VidaWantsYourCar on Apr 28, 2007 5:31 PM PDT reply actions

from someone who lives in nyc 2/3 of the year

it's brooklyn, not the bronx, that draws the insane regionalism. And to be honest, we've got plenty of bay-born pride/arrogance/localist stupidity and it's all good, cuz we deserve it. if you're from San Francisco or New York or Boston you should be fucking proud. And thankful - that you arent from LA

"Sportswriters: a rude and brainless sub-culture of fascist drunks" - hunter s thompson, former sportswriter

by nick @ McCovey Chronicles on Apr 28, 2007 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Re: from someone who lives in nyc 2/3 of the year

no doubt we've got plenty of that pride/arrogance. Consider the Warriors' throwback unis that refer to "The City".

For just pennies a day, you too can make a difference in the life of a Giants player...like Kevin Correia.

by VidaWantsYourCar on Apr 29, 2007 8:46 AM PDT up reply actions

Re: from someone who lives in nyc 2/3 of the year

What arrogance? You don't call it "The City"?

My Adopted San Francisco Giant: Notgardo Alfonzo

by tk on Apr 29, 2007 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions

Re: from someone who lives in nyc 2/3 of the year

Sure, but people from other metro areas also call their city "the city"...they just don't assume their city is THE city.

For just pennies a day, you too can make a difference in the life of a Giants player...like Kevin Correia.

by VidaWantsYourCar on Apr 29, 2007 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions

But ... but

San Francisco -is- THE City.

My Adopted San Francisco Giant: Notgardo Alfonzo

by tk on Apr 30, 2007 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions

Re: Yes, we KNOW you're from B______

Ive never actually met someone here who is proud of being from the Bronx. The Bronx has to be the worst real borough in this city (Staten Island doesn't count).

by Thompson on Apr 29, 2007 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions

"I Hate Red Sox v. anybody" thread

Curt Schilling, David Ortiz, Johnny Damon, Manny Ramirez, George Steinbrenner since he became a parody of himself...

These are a few of my least favorite things.

I don't generally care either way about the Yankees, but if I am being fed Red Sox games on national TV, then I almost regret the invention of television itself during the time that it takes me to realize what I'm watching and punch in the numbers for a new channel. Those few seconds are consistently pure agony.

Coming to you by proxy (I adopted: Dave Righetti!)

by howtheyscored on Apr 29, 2007 12:49 AM PDT reply actions

Which is the better George Steinbrenner though...

The actual one or the one voiced by Larry David?

On another Seinfeld note, there were actually scenes filmed with George Steinbrenner himself during the 7th season. He took Elaine out to dinner after seeing her in Yankee Stadium. It was cut, which was good because the Steinbrenner character as we know him would be dead on Seinfeld, but there was a good parody of it when Elaine turned her back to the camera and voiced-over.

Here's to a good 2007. Or 2008. Or 2009. Or 2010. Or...

by WalrusMan on Apr 29, 2007 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions

Which is the better George Steinbrenner

Seinfeld was one of those shows that I was always able to appreciate, but never able to like. Larry David has a pretty good track record of doing that to me, actually. Surely, Seinfeld was a great show, but it just never hit my buttons...

Coming to you by proxy (I adopted: Dave Righetti!)

by howtheyscored on Apr 29, 2007 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions