That column was hilariously bad. It started out alright, arguing that it was inappropriate to combine nationalism and sports. But everything became unhinged when Dynamo began his anecdote about the “insufferable” Sox fans at a O’s-Sox game.

“As a joke, me and my friends started chanting “SCOOOOOORE-BOOOOOARD”. We didn’t care about the game but if there’s one thing I love, it’s ironic chants at a ball game. It also genuinely pissed off some of the Red Sox fans near us as an added bonus. An inning later or so, another Red Sox solo home run and the score is now tied. So what did the idiot Red Sox fans do? Throw the ‘score-board’ chant back in our faces. This is so dumb it defies comprehension. The score is tied, so the chant can be used neither seriously nor in irony.”

So Ken Dynamo was at this game to hang out with his buddies and mock / anger the people who actually care about events on the field? And then he has the gall to accuse those fans of stupidity?

This column has essentially nothing to do with the Mets, the Sox, sports nationalism, or baseball for that matter. It is about a moron who antagonizes others and then accuses them of idiocy.

As a precursor to this I will say that this guy really has no right to comment on the status of the Red Sox nation since he admits he has no ties to either the Sox or the Orioles. I appreciate the fact that he is willing to take in a baseball game at a different stadium just for the love of the sport, but as far as putting down Red Sox nation when he admits himself that the same exact thing would happen if the Mets were performing at the level the Sox have over the past 4-5 years is ridiculous. He would be right in the middle of a Mets Nation if it happened and there’s a good chance he may sound as stupid as some of these Red Sox fans he is putting down.

Now in his defense. It can get a little obnoxious going to see the Orioles play the Sox since they are the closest AL team I have and I get surrounded by loads of Sox fans that really just have no concept of the team or the game in general. It bothers me because it gives people like me, who quietly sit there and keep score of these games, a bad name. My brother, an Orioles fan, constantly puts the fans down and I have no defense for them because for the most part he’s right. These people really don’t know who they’re cheering for half the time.

I was at the game the night before Manny hit his 500th and there were tons of Sox fans, some probably from Boston, others obviously fans that just jumped on the bandwagon and were there just to be obnoxious. One moment that sticks out in particular was a conversation I had with a “fan” who was trying to downplay the possibility that Manny could be hitting his 500th homerun (on his birthday mind you) and say that it’s just not a big deal anymore because so many people hit 500. I couldn’t believe this and had to correct him and say that 500 homeruns will still be a big deal, especially when you looked at the field, and at the current time, no other player in either starting line up will come close to reaching that mark, next closest would be Papi, and he won’t reach it because of such a late start to his power surge in his career. 24 people of the thousands that have taken the field, have done that in the history of the sport, it’s a massive deal, and here’s this guy making the Red Sox fans look ignorant because he doesn’t understand how big of a deal it is or simply because he wants to seem like he’s above cheering for such a “minute” event.

Another example came later in the game when Craig Hansen came in the game in extra innings and a fan behind me started cheering because he thought they were bringing in Papelbon. They were just there to party and cheer whenever something good happened, but when it started getting late and going to the 12th or 13th inning they were the ones that were heading for the door because their buzz was starting to wear off. How, as an honest true fan, can you leave a game in extra innings without knowing the outcome of your teams game. They just came for the party that is Red Sox nation, and that’s a fact that we all need to live with now. Our team being the fun, good team that it is, is going to have a following of people that don’t actually care about the sport because they just want to be part of something that is bigger than them and have a reason to be loud and get drunk. It sucks for the real fans who have to put up with it, but if the real fans are acting just as bad and obnoxious there’s nothing we can do about it. One fan even tried yelling at Melvin Mora for smelling like cabbage just to get a laugh from the rest of the fans around him.

This is just a fact that we all need to live with, and a fact that that Mets blogger needs to understand, and that is this would most certainly happen with his team if they actually got their act together and played well, especially because of who they are. If the next few years it came down to the Mets/Yankees (thankfully it doens’t look like that is happening for a while) they would be dealing with the same exact epidemic that we are, and that is, people jumping on the bandwagon just to feel like they belong to something, whether we want them to or not. But as long as theres respectable fans that can sit and talk with other fans (even fans of the opposing team) and have intellectual conversation about the sport we shouldn’t let the bad apples ruin it for us. That’s my little spiel, and that being said, the Mets, Yankees, and their fans can go live on top of a mountain where they won’t bother anyone ever again.

Turns out “go redsox go” actually hates the Sox: http://gometsdiebraves.blogspot.com/2008/06/shut-up-red-sox-fans.html

Better yet, he TRIED to piss us off and he couldn’t.