Yanks VS Braves

[humpyd]

Anybody going to be going down this week?

[JTrainDavis]

I'm rooting for the Yanks to spite the jackass who flamed the Yankee fan for asking about tickets to this series. And i'm a life long Sox fan
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[Vercingetorix]

Originally Posted by JTrainDavis

I'm rooting for the Yanks to spite the jackass who flamed the Yankee fan for asking about tickets to this series. And i'm a life long Sox fan
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That jackass would be me. I didn't flame him for asking about tickets to the game; I flamed him for being a frontrunner.

If he didn't want people to give him crap for being a frontrunner, then maybe he shouldn't have got up one morning and decided that he's suddenly a die-hard fan of a team with two dozen championships. That's just as awesome as all these American guys you see walking around Brit pubs wearing Man United jerseys, or someone who goes to one hockey game and decides he's suddenly a huge Red Wings fan. Guys like that deserve to be flamed.

[JTrainDavis]

go drink a few more cold ones in your basement and remind your cat just how hard core of a fan you are.
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[Vercingetorix]

Originally Posted by JTrainDavis

go drink a few more cold ones in your basement and remind your cat just how hard core of a fan you are.
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As a guy who somehow roots for both the Boston Red Sox and the New York Rangers, I can see how hearing someone else being berated for jumping on the bandwagon might cut a little close to home.

[JTrainDavis]

Originally Posted by Vercingetorix

As a guy who somehow roots for both the Boston Red Sox and the New York Rangers, I can see how hearing someone else being berated for jumping on the bandwagon might cut a little close to home.

I just don't undrstand your hatred for all the northeastern teams and their fans, as if the innferiority of Atlanta clubs has rotted your brain. It's okay to be bitter, Verc, a lack of history will do that to a city's clubs.
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[Vercingetorix]

I have no problem at all with northeastern teams or fans. In fact, I generally respect northern pro fans than I do southern guys, because in general, Boston guys root for all the Boston teams, NY guys for NY teams, even to the point where Yankees fans usually root for the Rangers, and Mets fans for the Islanders), Chicago guys for the Chicago teams, Cleveland guys for the Cleveland teams, and so forth. It's not like southern pro fans, who just pick and choose whoever they want -- and what a shock that nobody ever picks the Pittsburgh Pirates or the Cleveland Browns, right?

The Brits call guys like that "glory hunters," which is probably describes those guys better than "frontrunners." Just pull on that ballcap and suddenly all of those championships and all that tradition is yours, baby: "We won! Where can I order my championship shirt?"

[JTrainDavis]

Well, there are exceptions, i go to a half dozen Sox games per season, and about as many Ranger games on Broadway. Many of my friends (and my wife) are the same with yankees and celtics
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[Vercingetorix]

I don't care what someone's allegiances are as long as they are honestly acquired and consistently held. You're [not you, but in general] a Celtics fan because you're from New England? Great. You're a southern guy who roots for the C's (and the Sox, and the Patriots, and the Bruins) because your dad was from Boston? That's not just fine, that's pretty damn cool. But you're just some southern guy who roots for the Celtics because.........you liked Larry Bird, maybe? That's fine when you're 12 years old, I guess, but it seems pretty weak when you're a grown man. Especially when your other two teams just happen to be the Steelers and the [St. Louis] Cardinals, for example. Or the Cowboys and the Mets. Or whatever. "I have the right to root for whatever teams I want!" these guys always claim, and you know Oprah would have their backs about it -- but other fans also have the right to make fun of them for frontrunning, too. After all, nobody ever discovers a sudden passion for the Minnesota Twins.