Baseball Fans

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There are a lot of "we" comments in reference to the Red Sox here. I didn't realize we had so many Boston transplants at North Texas.

[CMJ]

There are a lot of "we" comments in reference to the Red Sox here. I didn't realize we had so many Boston transplants at North Texas.

I've been a Red Sox and Celtics fan my whole life. The first World Series I remember watching was actually the 1986 one where the Mets prevailed(Buckner, etc). I recall seeing how dejecected the Sox players were, felt really bad for them and sort of adopted them as my team. I grew up in Texas, so it may seem wierd - but I never cared for the Rangers or Mavericks really. I do have some extended family up in New England we used to visit when I was young, so that may be part of it.

My Mom was also a huge Larry Bird fan(going back to when he was at Indiana State) when I was a kid, so I used to watch games with her. She obviously would pull for the Celtics so it sorta passed into me by osmosis. Maybe the fact that I was already a Boston fan in one sport allowed me to shift allegiance to one in another sport easily?

On the other hand I have no devotion to the Patriots or Bruins at all. I have another snake bitten city(that unlike Boston is still snakebit) I followed in those leagues.

Edited October 21, 2008 by CMJ

[JayDub]

There are a lot of "we" comments in reference to the Red Sox here. I didn't realize we had so many Boston transplants at North Texas.

Sox fan since 2001.

[Cerebus]

Sox fan since 2001.

You were 32 years old in 2001. There is no excuse for being a grown man bandwagon fan.

[Cerebus]

Sox fan since 2001.

You were 32 years old in 2001. There is no excuse for being a grown man bandwagon fan.

[Censored by Laurie]

I spent all my summers as a kid in southern Mass...about an hour south of Boston. First place I ever saw a game was Fenway...I remember my first Yankee/Red Sox game was a pitching match-up between crazy Melido Perez and a young up and comer named Aaron Sele...I asked a Yankee fan in Boston Beer Works if he brought a gun with him. Mike Greenwell was my mustacheod over-achieving white guy sports man crash. I was on board when Sox brass said we could let Wade Boggs go b/c Scott Cooper and Tim Naehring would hold down third base for the next 15 years. I thought John Valentin was a sure fire hall of famer after he turned an unassisted triple play.

I also remember a time when the closest thing to an Irishman on the Sox roster was Troy O'Leary.

[JayDub]

You were 32 years old in 2001. There is no excuse for being a grown man bandwagon fan.

I was 19, thank you.

[JayDub]

You were 32 years old in 2001. There is no excuse for being a grown man bandwagon fan.

I was 19, thank you.

[Quoner]

I spent all my summers as a kid in southern Mass...about an hour south of Boston. First place I ever saw a game was Fenway...I remember my first Yankee/Red Sox game was a pitching match-up between crazy Melido Perez and a young up and comer named Aaron Sele...I asked a Yankee fan in Boston Beer Works if he brought a gun with him. Mike Greenwell was my mustacheod over-achieving white guy sports man crash. I was on board when Sox brass said we could let Wade Boggs go b/c Scott Cooper and Tim Naehring would hold down third base for the next 15 years. I thought John Valentin was a sure fire hall of famer after he turned an unassisted triple play.

I also remember a time when the closest thing to an Irishman on the Sox roster was Troy O'Leary.

I've got New England parents and a dad who played football at BC - where he met my mom - but I try to ease up on claiming any of it as much as I used to because liking Boston got so fashionable after 2004. I follow the Bruins as my second hockey Eastern Conference team, but don't feel anything for the other two. I was born after we had moved to Atlanta, so I have a weird Falcons secondary team love as well (and a brother who never stopped liking them and a grandfather who died during the 1998 Super Bowl, making strong associations both ways with them impossible.)

So yeah, go Matt Ryan.