Red Sox Nation Grumbles Like an Entitled EmpireBy DAVID MARGOLICK

Published: May 7, 2010

 

The Red Sox are off to a troubled start, and barely a sixth of the way into the season, the Web sites and comment boards in Boston are warning of a long and miserable summer. But to any longtime Sox fan — born before, say, 1990 — it just ain’t so. To us, this year promises to be a cathartic trip down memory lane and, maybe, a return to tradition, and sanity.

 

Online commenters are calling for the release of David Ortiz, whose slugging helped to deliver two World Series titles.

 

Check out the online fury that follows every Sox loss these days: the perfervid denunciations of “Big Floppy,” David Ortiz (D.H. stands for “doesn’t hit”), and Terry “Francoma” and “Nancy” Drew and Marco “Scatterthrow”; the wilting attacks on General Manager Theo Epstein (better known these days as “Boy Genius”); the indignant vows to give up and watch the Bruins or wait for the Patriots (training camp is only 10 weeks away)...

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/sports/b...amp;ref=general

 

 

David Margolick is a contributing editor at Newsweek.

Edited May 9, 201015 yr by caulfield12

First of all, it is inappropriate to post an entire article. If you have an article you like, post an excerpt from it unless it's like 3 paragraphs and you need all the information from it.

 

Secondly...and much more importantly, if you're going to post a large box of text from an article...you MUST include a link to it.

I'm a regular lurker over at Sons of Sam Horn. The b****fest we see here when things aren't going well pails in comparison to what goes on over there when they're in a funk.

Edited May 9, 201015 yr by Jordan4life

Red Cubs fans really are obnoxious though... it's like they think they're the Yankees after 2004.

This new generation of Red Sox fans is ridiculous.

Red Sox fans are a mixture of Cubs fans and Yankees fans. With that in mind, they are without question the most obnoxious, insufferable fans in the sport. Easily.

Edited May 11, 201015 yr by whitesoxfan101

Red Sox fans are a mixture of Cubs fans and Yankees fans. With that in mind, they are without question the most obnoxious, insufferable fans in the sport. Easily.

 

You don't deal with Yankees fans on a daily basis.

Red Sox fans are a mixture of Cubs fans and Yankees fans. With that in mind, they are without question the most obnoxious, insufferable fans in the sport. Easily.

 

Funny you say that. I have described Red Sox fans as the illegitimate child of the Yankees and Cubs fans. Basically, arrogant, whiny, entitled, spoiled children with too much disposable income and a weird idea of true suffering.

 

With the possible exception of ND fans, I struggle to come up with a more annoying fan base in all of sports.