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vor
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Username: Vor
Post Number: 29
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 10:58 am: |     |
Who did you root for in the 1986 World Series?
Because of my obnoxious Met fan in-laws (only obnoxious about the Mets - whew ) I rooted for the Red Sox, I learned my lesson. |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 769
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 11:16 am: | |
I wanted to root for the Mets...or make that, see the Mets do well, but realizing that the '86 Mets fans were possibly more obnoxious than the '86 Mets team, I was pulling for the Red Sux. I most likely did not watch most of the games, but did see the game where Bill Buckner made history. |
ronzio
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Username: Ronzio
Post Number: 38
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 12:02 pm: | |
I was thirteen years old. Deeply resentful of the Mets getting all of the press and that they had the audacity to be better than my Yankees.
And as a Yankee fan, I of course couldn't root for the Red Sox. So I simply ignored the whole thing. Pretended there was no World Series. Watched football.
What can I say, I was a sore sport... |
vermontgolfer
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Username: Vermontgolfer
Post Number: 99
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 1:03 pm: | |
And Yankee fans aren't obnoxious?
At least us Met fans don't have to worry about getting upset by the Twinkies. |
John Holl
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Username: Jgh
Post Number: 116
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 1:12 pm: | |
As a Yankee fan, I was rooting for them both to lose. |
bella
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Username: Bella
Post Number: 355
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 1:30 pm: | |
I was staring 7th grade & was shocked to find out that friends of the family were Mets fans. I had never even entertained the notion that someone would pick the Mets as 'their' team. I just ignored the whole thing. |
Chalmers
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Username: Chalmers
Post Number: 15
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 3:00 pm: | |
After what passes for thoughtful deliberation in a 15-year-old, I pulled for the Red Sox on the theory that I wouldn't have to deal with a bunch of gloating Red Sox fans at school if they won.
At our high school's football game the morning of Game 6, a Met fan friend told me he was going to the game and I kept joking how he'd get to see the Red Sox celebrate in person. My prediction looked pretty good for awhile.
In retrospect, I'm glad the Red Sox lost because as long as the "curse" lasts, there's a reason to bring up the 1978 pennant race and all of the great personalities on both teams. |
Redsox
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Username: Redsox
Post Number: 329
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 5:41 pm: | |
du-uh, the sox maybe?
i hope that obnoxious old lady sitting behind the plate at shea stadium,
you know the one who was rolling here arms(to distract the boston pitchers)is not with us anymore.
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Barbara
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Username: Blh
Post Number: 189
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 3, 2003 - 9:33 pm: | |
My American League allegiance won out -- and while I didn't root out loud I did hope the Sox would beat them. My son is hiding his face in shame as I write this (literally). |
parkbench87
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Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 324
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, October 6, 2003 - 8:49 am: | |
Hank,
The 86 Mets and their fans Obnoxious? Come On!!!!!
The Yankees and their fans personify the word Obnoxious. They corner the market on Obnoxious. They own the rights to Obnoxious.
You get my point right? |
ashear
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Username: Ashear
Post Number: 714
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 9:40 am: | |
As far as the market for obnoxious goes, Manny Ramirez pretty much cornered it last night. One minute the guy can't buy a hit the next he's the king of the world. Get a grip. (Though the A's fan who taunted Jackson after the colision with Damon gave him a run for his money for asshole of the game). |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 772
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 9:45 am: | |
If Manny had even a sliver of personal character, he'd have been in pinstripes by now. As it is, the story around Boston is that they want to get rid of him, despite being the best RBI producer of his era. |
duncanrogers
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 830
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 9:57 am: | |
Yea.. but Manny joined the ranks of athletes with no respect for the game they play last night. While i was thrilled to see the Sox advance (being from Boston originally) I was disgusted at the posing and pointing. He joins Shockey of the Giants and Tyson of the ring in the not-so-hallowed halls of people WHO JUST DONT GET IT. Like Steve Lyons said during the broadcast.. you have to act like you have been there before.
www.freshwater-films.com |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 773
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 10:17 am: | |
But I do feel sorry for Derek Lowe..he does this incredibly awkward celebratory arm and foot motion thing (I couldn't quite call it a "victory dance"...it didn't resemble dancing that I've ever seen)..and the A's blast him for making obscene gestures toward their dugout. Either I missed the obscene gesture or it was a case of a player and team not knowing how to celebrate a big victory since, well, they haven't been in that situation all that much historically. Lowe doesn't seem to be of the same fabric as Ramirez. |
Redsox
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Username: Redsox
Post Number: 332
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 2:36 pm: | |
oh, and steve "psycho" lyons is without sin...
come on dunc, don't forget your roots-
remember all those rich sh*thead BU students we had to put up with....
jeter's a homo, mickey rivers still has the clap, thurmond is dead....
and let's have a rousing chorus...
yankees s*ck, yankees s*ck, yankees s*ck |
duncanrogers
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 833
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 3:24 pm: | |
Now now now.. I never said that about Lyons. Lord knows who forgets his dropping drawers at first base. I merely said I agree with him. There are levels of sportsmanship.
Believe me when I tell you that I have never forgotten my roots. I remember rich sh*thead students from BU, BC (where I worked), Harvard, MIT, Smith, Emerson, all the rest of em.
I have no problem with someone running the bases pumping his fist or what not, the exuberance that Kirk Gibson displayed as he rounded first headed for second in game one 1988 reminds us all that the players are still just kids at heart. Standing in the batters box watching your ball travel out of the park is cheap, arrogant showmanship. Is it any wonder there is taunting in little league baseball. Look at the behaviour of their role models. I guess I expect too much from the game and wish it would retain its civility. But alas, as demonstrated by the Oakland knuckleheads in the stands after Damon went down.. it is endemic.
Sigh
The one constant through all the years,Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
www.freshwater-films.com |
algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1263
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 3:26 pm: | |
Red Sox fan chiming in ... Meriden, NH |
Redsox
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Username: Redsox
Post Number: 333
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 6:28 pm: | |
ahoy all stations and ships at sea...
the redsox nation is on the rise....
the evil hun steinbrenner and his band of prison pinstriped bronxites shall be vanquished...
all victory to the mighty redsox |
Chris Dickson
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Username: Ironman
Post Number: 817
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 7:05 pm: | |
Red Sox in four. Yes, a sweep. You heard it here first ...
Big Train
Horn-Infused Funkification!
www.bigtraintracks.com |
ashear
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Username: Ashear
Post Number: 716
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 9:33 pm: | |
Umm, excuse me, but who is going to pitch these games. They have one great pitcher, one good pitcher and, well that's about it. Assuming the Yanks pitching keeps going the way its been going I'd say Yanks in 5. Don't you Redsox fans ever learn. It shoudl say "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" over the gates the fans walk into at Fenway. |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 775
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 10:41 pm: | |
Dickson isn't a Red Sux fan..he's (yet another) bitter Mets fan who fortunately has better taste in music than in baseball teams. Chris, will Big Train be doing a horn-laden r&b version of "Meet the Mets" soon? |
ml1
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Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1307
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 11:28 pm: | |
Bitter or not, if you aren't a Yankee fan, you GOTTA be rooting for the Cubs and Red Sox. |
swato
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Username: Swato
Post Number: 104
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 3:02 pm: | |
Lets Go Yankees!!!! |
Redsox
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Username: Redsox
Post Number: 335
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 6:04 pm: | |
yo swato,
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jmpires/redsox.html |
Chris Dickson
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Username: Ironman
Post Number: 819
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 11:39 pm: | |
Game One! In the book ...
Big Train
Horn-Infused Funkification!
www.bigtraintracks.com |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 776
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 9:09 am: | |
Careful there, Chris..you don't want to alienate any of your Big Train fanbase who happen to be Yankee fans.
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duncanrogers
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 841
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 9:18 am: | |
7th inning, Wakefield walks two batters on nine pitches and suddenly I am right back in Boston, throat clenching, heart sinking awaiting the typical outcome. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
www.freshwater-films.com |
Chris Dickson
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Username: Ironman
Post Number: 820
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 9:22 am: | |
Hank:
People come to our shows with many different kinds of beliefs; We like that, we welcome all. There have been a lot of questions raised recently about the forthrightness of our great game. This playing with the truth has been a part of both the Yankee and Red Sox administrations in the past and it is always wrong, never more so than when the World Series is at stake. The question of whether we were mislead into the ALCS isn't a Yankee or Red Sox or American League or National League question, it's an American one. Protecting the game that we ask our sons and daughters to play is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from your manager is our job as fans. It's the American way. So may the game will out. Play ball ...
Big Train
Horn-Infused Funkification!
www.bigtraintracks.com |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2250
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 9:24 am: | |
Now do that hang-upside-down-on-the-mike-stand trick. |
ml1
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Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1309
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 9:35 am: | |
ooh, my abs are hurting just thinking about it... |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 779
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 9:36 am: | |
Chris,
I thought the questions raised between the Yankees and Red Sux was one of coaching methodologies and philosophies...new methods versus older traditional methods of coaching players. Do you coach so that you win more games giving you a higher winning percentage..or do you coach to create a more well-rounded team..or is a blended coaching program what is best? Should players be drilled in signs from the third base coach over and over? What if a player just doesn't get the signs? Is there some form of intervention..extra coaching sessions, new coaching methodology, etc..to help that player get it? And what if a player does get it immediately...how does a coaching staff then challenge that player to continue to grow in baseball smarts and perform to the best and highest level they can? And are signs unfair to players of certain backgrounds? And why do players have to get signs from the third base coach who is obviously on the left side of the field? Why cant the first base coach who stands firmly on the right side give signs? Does the wearing of team uniforms denote some sort of affiliation we should be concerned with? And does a team need playbooks to learn signs or can they learn from handouts? No wonder people get crazy over all this stuff. |
Chris Dickson
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Username: Ironman
Post Number: 822
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 9:46 am: | |
Take two and hit to right ... Any questions?
Big Train
Horn-Infused Funkification!
www.bigtraintracks.com |
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