Re: OK, who's giving up on the Sox?


"Bob-Nob" <bobnob15@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns99B25628ED94Bbobnob15aolcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CalC venit, vidit, et dixit:
Ken wrote:

Pussies.

Rah Rah now go to your cheerleading practice. For the money they
spent and the ticket prices they charge fans this collapse is a
disgrace.

(1) For the money they spent (second-most in baseball), they
have the third-best record in baseball (and only a game behind
the best record). That sounds pretty appropriate to me. It
doesn't matter whether a team wins its games early or late.
If they'd won the first 100 games in a row, then lost the
next 62, it wouldn't be any different from losing the first
62 in a row, then winning the last 100. The postseason starts
0-0, and there's no evidence that I'm aware of that a team's
record in September has much if any significance on a team's
performance in October.

(2) So if they lowered the price of tickets, you'd be okay
with "the collapse?" I call baloney. If you are so disgusted
by the team, you should be thankful that the ticket prices
are high enough so as to discouarge you from going to games
and being disgusted in person.

I'll root for them until the last out of the first round
of the playoffs when the seasons over.

Why? If you are so certain that they won't make it out
of the first round, save yourself some anguish and stop
watching now. I'm totally serious. What's the point in
watching if it's a foregone conclusion? (But if you don't
think it's absolutely positively definite that they're
going to lose, why suggest here that you think it is?)


Simple answer...it's more fun to bitch and whine...and look like he's smarter than everyone else. To *prove* HE'S not a sucker. Funny thing is...you won't hear a peep from him if the Red Sox actually win. CalC and his ilk are reverse fair weather fans. They vanish when they are proved wrong.

It's kind of sad in a way. They're so afraid of investing themselves emotionally, for fear of getting *hurt* I can only guess, that they cheat themselves of the full enjoyment of success when it happens. It's the overcoming of adversity that makes the winning so much sweeter. If it's easy, it doesn't have the same impact.

As a huge Celtic fan through the Bird Era, I know what it can be like when it's almost TOO easy. However, they lost enough in the post-season to keep THAT interesting. But in the regular season, it became damn near boring...no real challenge. That's the closest experience I've had to the feeling Yankee fans must have at times. Though the Patriots are getting there. You need good competition to make it interesting. Frontrunners just don't get to enjoy it as mach as the real *die-hards*...and I ain't talkin' about Bruce Willis.

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