10-28-2004, 11:57 PM
I'm really bored with these sports articles. All the writers are Red Sox fans, and they all tell the same story, Oh, my father took me to see my first game at Fenway, and it was when Pudge waved the ball home, and that day me and my father connected to one another on an emotional and physical level. He died seven years ago, and didn't get the chance to see the Sox win the World Series, but I did, and so that makes me wish he were alive to see it.
Does every Red Sox fan has some similiar story about the Red Sox and a relative of theirs sharing some common bond with each other because of the Red Sox? I read the ESPN mailbag; it's nothing but this stuff. I listen to Jim Rome, he drops his entire format to takes nothing but these phonecalls.
It's just, I dunno, they call up with these stories, and they tell them as if it's suppose to be some big surprise that their father died before getting to see the Sox win. But, when you call up, and start talking about seeing the Sox play the Cardinals in the 60's, yeah, I can already assume your dad's dead. There's probably a better chance that there are more relatives of Sox fans who died before seeing another championship, than there are relatives of Yankee fans. I mean, I have to go back to the 19th century to find relatives of mine like that.
I guess that's why these stories are told. But, cmon, I wanna hear stories of riots, and destruction, and burning effegies of Steinbrenner and Babe Ruth
Does every Red Sox fan has some similiar story about the Red Sox and a relative of theirs sharing some common bond with each other because of the Red Sox? I read the ESPN mailbag; it's nothing but this stuff. I listen to Jim Rome, he drops his entire format to takes nothing but these phonecalls.
It's just, I dunno, they call up with these stories, and they tell them as if it's suppose to be some big surprise that their father died before getting to see the Sox win. But, when you call up, and start talking about seeing the Sox play the Cardinals in the 60's, yeah, I can already assume your dad's dead. There's probably a better chance that there are more relatives of Sox fans who died before seeing another championship, than there are relatives of Yankee fans. I mean, I have to go back to the 19th century to find relatives of mine like that.
I guess that's why these stories are told. But, cmon, I wanna hear stories of riots, and destruction, and burning effegies of Steinbrenner and Babe Ruth