Word: sox
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Apparently the Boston faithful had graduated from their “Yankees suck, Jeter swallows” routine and set their sights on New York catcher Jorge Posada. Though I was tucked away in a back-alley garden restaurant, Red Sox Nation had targeted me, too, as its inebriated agents would on several other occasions during my brief foray into the Great White North...
...teams actually competing right before their eyes. Granted, the Expos are neither popular nor particularly good and their opponents, the Houston Astros, would have been asking quite a bit of their fans to make the trek to the ballpark. But why the disproportionate number of visible Red Sox supporters, besmirching an otherwise splendid five-inning, no-hit effort from Montreal hurler Tony Armas...
...fiery hatred most Red Sox fans openly espouse for their first-place counterparts seemed to not-so-quietly permeate the trip’s smallest detail. Would every aspect of an otherwise wonderful city be ruined for me by this loathsome invasion? The possibility of Notre Dame Cathedral’s crucifix adorned by an oversized Red Sox hat suddenly seemed all too real. An “obligatory” visit to the renowned establishment “Super Sex” was threatened to be derailed by the prospect of a dancer providing a tantalizing performance only...
Perhaps it’s nostalgia or, more likely, the product of obliviousness in my younger days, but Red Sox fans weren’t always this way. Sure, they were never cute or cuddly, and their collective accent has always registered as foreign and plebeian to the New York ear, but those differences never seemed to constitute an unbridgeable...
...close attention to the campaign for a year and a half,” Patterson said. “That may make sense for pundits and for people like me. There’s always those campaign junkies out there—they’re like Red Sox fans. For most citizens, we overtax them. Our campaigns just last too long...