Sorry we won in '04?
by nesnlover on Oct 8, 2008 3:51 PM EDT
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... As a representative of Red Sox Nation, versed in both failure and faith, I say you dodged a bullet: Should you ever win a World Series, next year or five years from now, what you win will never be as meaningful as what you lose. May I find myself squeezed into a seat on a trans-Atlantic flight beside David Ortiz if you think I'm being heedlessly provocative — butsome days I wish the Red Sox had not won that World Series in 2004. Your relationship is never the same. It's like dating the homeliest girl in town and watching her become Scarlett Johansson. Sounds wonderful, but consider:
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From Red Sox fan to Cubs Fans: Winning isn't always a good thing
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Ugh. That analogy is Simmons-lite.
Bill has a lot to answer for.
"no1 has time to read your long comments, are you writing a book?"
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
I am enjoying the love we call Red Sox nation and the WS victories, because some day we will not be a great team. The Cubs have never had that love a WS victory.
The more the merrier
I know its blasphemy, but I enjoyed the 07 WS much more than the 04. No offense to the 04 team, love them, but last year was SWEET!!!
We need as many WS victories as possible…whats the line from Almost Famous…
“You got to get what you can, when you can, while you can….”
So no I am much happier the Sox won in 04 and i get happier each time we win another W
This is insane.
It’s completely preposterous. It’s quite possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.
Honestly, I think every team should have its taste of the World Series. My 2008 WS winner preferences:
1) Red Sox (duh)
2) Chicago Cubs
3) Tampa Bay Rays
Obviously I want the Sox to place first. But I’d also like to have seen the Cubs bust their “curse.” And I wouldn’t mind seeing Andrew Friedman’s very well constructed team win it all.
The only people who root for loses and curses are SPORTSWRITERS. 99% of Fans want to relish victories, bandwagoners and sellouts be damned.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
If not the Red Sox
Well my dad is an SF Giants fan
and their misery is underrated
So I’d like to see the Giants win
Then I’d root for Cleveland because that city could use a hug
F Tampa… they can’t even fill their stadium up.
I’d rather see cities like Seattle (who also has underrated misery)
Cincinnati (a sleeping giant of baseball fandom)
and Kansas City
by SullyBaseball on Oct 10, 2008 2:23 AM EDT up reply actions
Giants fans just suffer from poor ownership decisions (thanks for Zito and destruction of the farm!!!!1) and being in a shitty, wind tunnel stadium, for 40 some odd years.
Oh well. The farm system has quickly showed some life and is well stocked with prospects. I look forward to 2010 and beyond with the Giants.
I don’t want another expansion team winning it all before the Giants, so screw the Rays. I’ve been living in SF for most of my life, but was born in Mass, so of course I’ll be rooting for the Sox to do it again.
Sergio Romo will gladly hand you a bench to sit on / GIANTSPACE™ / Adopted brother of the AnVil
by SoFa King Mike on Oct 10, 2008 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions
He's probably a Yankee fan
Yankee fans miss the drought more than anything
They NEED the 19-18 chant to feel superior
If 2004 happened with a dull ALCS with the Twins and an anti climactic World Series, it still would have been the watershed moment of our lives.
But the fact that it included an epic Yankees collapse makes it… well it makes it overwhelming
And anyone who would go through the woe is me pre 2004 mindset is a lunatic
WE’RE THE BAD GUYS!!!
EMBRACE IT
I voted he's full of shit but there should have been more options
Let me start of by saying that there is NO way any sane Red Sox fan could in any way regret the Sox not winning in 2004. The Red Sox World Series title after 86 painful years came in about as perfect a situation as any: after a heart wrenching ALCS Game 7 loss to the Wankee in 2003, we became the first team ever to advance to the WS after being down 0-3 and to none other than our hated rivals. 2004 will forever live on in Red Sox hearts as THE Year.
However one thing I personally don’t like about the modern day Red Sox is not the team but part of its fan base…too many Red Sox fans are bandwagon fans who jumped on the ship between ’05 and ’07 and most of those alongside plenty of “old school” fans have started to adopt the mentality that a year without a World Series title is a waisted year, something reminiscent of Yankee fans. Personally, as a die hard Red Sox fan from birth onwards my goal for the modern day Red Sox is to reach the playoffs every year. to ask anything more, in my opinion, is both bigoted and unrepresentative of the heart and soul of Red Sox Nation.
Forever Red Sox, screw all those pink-hatted babes, 'got no family, 'got no friends, 'got no life--RED SOX I LIVE FOR THIS.
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