Now as far as being a red sox fan... if you didn't suffer with us through all of that... if you didn't suffer through late inning losses, end of the season slides, game fucking 7 in 2003 (fuck you fox for cutting back to the game with the fucking homerun already over the fence and saying yankees win.....), etc, etc etc... then you are not a red sox fan.... seriously go put your fucking yankees cap back on you fucking fairweather johnson.... get off our bandwagon... and if I catch you wearing that hat trying to claim you really a sox fan i am going to smack it the fuck off your head and tax you for that shit...
This is what I'm saying though. I'm with you one hundred percent, the red sox have broken my heart a million times, and yet every time they got close I would still get my hopes up just to have my heart broken again. Now whether I want to admit it or not we have a huge bandwagon problem and thats all I was saying. The Yankess are the biggest band wagon team in sports, and now that we are winning we can compete. Every time we play a team like tampa bay and there is almost as many sox hats in the crowd as devil rays, it makes part of me really happy and part of me really sad, because before we started winning we still had lots of fans on the road, but now its crazy. The Sox are an easy team to love and all it took was a little winning to open people's eyes to that. Sports Illustrated did an article about 10 years ago about the most loved sports team in America. They went state to state and figured out which teams in all of sports held the most ground. the Red Sox took 6 states and had the most in any teams in sports. We have always had a very large, very passionate fan base, but lately it has been getting filled with "fairweather johnsons" and it sucks. We will never be the Yankees though, and I am grateful for that.