Word: rabid
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cubs have rabid fans, and people would tune in from across the country because these teams have pull. The Red Sox Nation is thriving right now, reaching far beyond the Northeast. After Game 5 at the Coliseum, the Boston players went back on the field to celebrate with the legions of Sox fans in attendance—in Oakland...
...passionate? Because they are desperate to see their respective teams win. Their “this is the year” attitude is truly a phenomenon. It’s something Yankees fans certainly don’t have, and honestly, I think it makes Red Sox fans more rabid and fervent than their New York counterparts...
...don’t think I really got those Saturday Night Live jokes about Red Sox fans and their rabid hatred for the Yankees until my first seventh inning at Fenway. The team’s playoff ambitions were already dashed, but as the game dragged on and concessionaires pulled the taps on bleacher beer, the faces around me began to harden with purpose. Native Bostonians in every corner of the stadium—from toddlers just learning to mispronounce the Boston “r” to die-hard 40-somethings escaping their wives—pulled together...
Michalik said he has been attacked by rabid gray foxes on his own lawn, and that the construction threatens to exacerbate the animal menace...
...trust the scholarly conclusions of James O. Freedman—who was the President of Dartmouth, the University of Iowa and the American Academy of Sciences—more than the biased, ideologically driven accusations leveled by two rabid anti-Israeli polemicists, whose views I have repeatedly attacked over the years. Finkelstein and Cockburn have a long history of leveling unfounded charges against their ideological opponents. This is the conclusion reached by Freedman after reviewing the relevant materials...