tedylb
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.No excuses. You were the better team. When you beat the best, you become the best. It's a great story when a small market team goes from worst to first in one season.
Now go kick the Phillies' asses.
I'm not too torn up about the loss given the adversity this Sox team faced, I couldn't possibly ask for more of them than what they did, but the Rays can f**k themselves if for no other reason than their fanbase is remarkably annoying and their stadium is 2nd rate shyt. Seriously, f**k Tampa.
I'm not watching the World Series.
*bitterly sits in corner teary eyed*
I'm not too torn up about the loss given the adversity this Sox team faced, I couldn't possibly ask for more of them than what they did, but the Rays can f**k themselves if for no other reason than their fanbase is remarkably annoying and their stadium is 2nd rate shyt. Seriously, f**k Tampa.
Their fanbase is annoying? Why, because they didn't lay down and kiss our butts? Come on BM, given the way Sox fans as a whole have given them zero respect, how do you expect them to act towards us? They outplayed us, they beat us; hats off to them. I swear, some Sox fans act exactly the same way as what we despised for so long: Yankee fans.I'm not too torn up about the loss given the adversity this Sox team faced, I couldn't possibly ask for more of them than what they did, but the Rays can f**k themselves if for no other reason than their fanbase is remarkably annoying and their stadium is 2nd rate shyt. Seriously, f**k Tampa.
Their fanbase is annoying? Why...
Their fanbase is annoying? Why, because they didn't lay down and kiss our butts? Come on BM, given the way Sox fans as a whole have given them zero respect, how do you expect them to act towards us? They outplayed us, they beat us; hats off to them. I swear, some Sox fans act exactly the same way as what we despised for so long: Yankee fans.
Nothing to do w/ laying down or not - the Rays fans are annoying b/c a few months ago they were all Yankee fans. Or Sox fans. (More Yanks fans down there though) People complain about bandwagon fans in Boston, those Rays fans are the definition of bandwagon jumpers.
Wrong. They weren't Yankee fans. Yankee fans came to the stadium over Ray fans. The Ray fans did not support their team, that's not in dispute. But, they did not root for the Yankees, the Sox, or Cubs and then switch alliance. Now, some of those fans (Sox, Yankees, Cubs ) who live down there will root for the Rays as they take on Philly.
People from Tampa have explicitly told me that the Yankees were big down there - partly b/c they have spring training down there. In fact, I was told exactly what I posted - that the Yankees are popular down there. And the cheers you hear for the MFY when they're in town aren't just MFY fans going down to the games, but Tampa Bay residents who root for the MFY. Maybe you know more about the place then I do, but I'm going on what I've heard.
The Tampa Bay fans will stop watching as soon as the Phillies get a couple of games up on them.
Mostly because they didn't show up 'till 1/2 way through this season. For the first 9 1/2 years of their existence you could hear every single word uttered by that goofy heckler guy. Many times he was talking, not even shouting. Now there's all these Rays-fans-for-life all over the place...
Given how bad the previous ownership was and how bad the team was on the field, I can't say that I blame Tampa Bay fans for not supporting their baseball team previously. And it's no different in Boston; how many showed up to watch the Celtics two years ago, or the Pats prior to Bob Kraft taking over?
We can't compare them to the Red Sox. The Sox have been competitive for over forty consecutive years, giving fans realistic hope every season since 1967; the Rays have only been competitive for six months. If the Sox were as bad as Tampa was for the ten previous seasons, the attendance at Fenway would probably be about the same.
When a team wins, attendance usually jumps more the following year than the same year due to increased season ticket sales. If they still have attendance problems next year, then I'll say they should move and their fans don't deserve a team, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until then.