Connecticut razzing

by riverfront on Jul 9, 2008 11:59 AM EDT

This is kind of funny. A Connecticut state rep., in his weekly column, poking fun at the Reds in The Darien (Conn.) Times of all places:

"But this is supposed to be a column about government. And while I am at it, if you get a chance, ask the editor why his favorite team, the Cincinnati Reds (no, I am not going to explain how that happened) is still struggling to reach .500, when the Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers are turning their franchises around? Isn’t it obvious that this would be a much better paper if I did a music review column, and that editor could babble about baseball?"

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There's another Reds' fan here?

Since I’m not that editor, there must be other Reds’ fans here. That’s good to know. It is hard to liver here in the place where the Yankees and Red Sox storm fronts collide. You guys just have to deal with ESPN highlights and FOX Saturday Baseball being all about the Yankees and RedSox. I have to deal with everything being about the Yankees and Red Sox. And I have officially reached the tipping point this season where I now hate the Red Sox more than the Yankees.

The season doesn't start until the Cincinnati Reds take the field! Reclaim The Opener!!

by TheC on Jul 9, 2008 12:20 PM EDT reply actions

Can we make this the thread where we complain about fans of local teams?

Like how a large contingent of fans at DC sporting events will scream “O!” during The Star-Spangled Banner, even though a) the game is not in Baltimore; b) the Orioles are not involved in any way; c) Washington has its own team now; and d) they aren’t even at a baseball game anyway! (Happens all the time at United games. Probably Redskins, Capitals, Wizards, and Mystics games too, but I haven’t been to those. Oh, and the Washington Kastles. That’s right, a professional tennis team [what?] that spells its name that way, and plays in a big community parking lot in an area that was recently used as field for games for the Homeless World Cup.)

by Brendanukkah on Jul 9, 2008 12:42 PM EDT up reply actions

i would like to complain about the fans of my local team...

there are too many cubs fans at the ball park. It’s sickening to go to a reds game and hear a deafening “Let’s Go Cubbies” chant.

So hey, umm....do you guys mind if I have this fruit roll-up?

by chandrathan on Jul 9, 2008 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Yes

You don’t hear it as much as you used to, but the E-A-G-L-E-S chants at Phillies or Sixers games is beyond grating. Is there an equivalent in DC? I hear that the ‘Skins completely dominate the newspapers and talk radio.

The Darien Times can eat a Mystic Pizza.

by ken on Jul 9, 2008 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions

To risk offending the powers that be

The O-H-I-O chants at Bengals games need to fucking stop. This isn’t Columbus, not all of us care about OSU, take that shit somewhere else.

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Jul 9, 2008 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

rec'd

So hey, umm....do you guys mind if I have this fruit roll-up?

by chandrathan on Jul 9, 2008 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions

as a resident of Columbus

im totally with you. the atomosphere of this town on gameday is downright Kafka-esque. i love it being a Buckeyes fan, but the reasonable and mild-mannered gentleman in me is horrified by the spectacle. a few years back when the Buckeyes played the Irish in the Fiesta Bowl i wore a ND shirt for a laugh. when i went on a beer run and forgot to change it, i felt like a death row inmate most feel when he is being escorted to the electric chair. all those eyes staring at me, knowing im going to be killed in a just a few short minutes…

Stephen A. Douglas was a great debater, but Abraham Lincoln was the Great Emancipator.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Jul 9, 2008 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions

which brings up the obvious question...

would you rather be a Domer or a cockroach?

Childhood in South Bend, IN could get a little crazy. My preschool teacher played the victory march on her accordion while we all sang along. The time a SoCal fan drove on a flowerbed image of an interlocking ND was treated with much greater solemnity than the time our Asian neighbors had “Fuck Chinks” burned into their front lawn. And the burning incident was treated with much solemnity.

All the same, I still watch Notre Dame games and have no respect for Boston College. The more things change…

...because there's already someone posing as Jacob Brumfield

by Cy Schourek on Jul 9, 2008 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions

Boston College?

they have a college in Boston now?

Stephen A. Douglas was a great debater, but Abraham Lincoln was the Great Emancipator.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Jul 9, 2008 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions

"I wouldn't worry about it. It's not a big college town."

by Brendanukkah on Jul 9, 2008 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

wait, why no respect for BC of all schools?

by Brian B on Jul 10, 2008 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Rivalry with Notre Dame

They play each other every year. Kind of a Catholic thing.

by Brendanukkah on Jul 10, 2008 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions

I don't think that's what he meant.

It can’t be just the rivalry. I’m from BC and I always hear how ND fans don’t consider it a rivalry . . . a slap in the face in their own pretentious way. Scrabbles must be talking about the time the football team destroyed the locker room one year. Or maybe it’s just the fact that a lot of Boston-area BC fans think the Pats, Sox, Celtics, and BC Eagles are the same team.

I went to the game this past year in South Bend, and after the game all the BC fans were singing Sweet Caroline. WTF? I said something to my friends like, you know, “this isn’t Fenway, idiots.” But they said, no they sing that at the home games too. That’s just wrong. The non-Boston area alums I think are a little pissed about the whole thing.

As much as I grew up hating ND, the campus is the most gracious and welcoming place on the planet on Fall Saturday afternoons. I can yell anything I want at them on TV, but when I’m on their campus I’ve got nothing.

by Brian B on Jul 11, 2008 1:14 AM EDT up reply actions

Red Sox fans are the absolute worst

They still chant “Yankees suck” at Patriots games and at the Patriots’ ticker tape parades. Celtics games and I have heard it at two Bob Dylan concerts in Boston. They don’t even cheer for their team. They cheer against another team. Yankees fans at least cheer for their team.

Boston is a great city, except for the Sawx fans.

by riverfront on Jul 9, 2008 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions

More news from Connecticut

Teens build wiffle ball field, neighbors go apeshit.

It’s not as simple as it sounds – I believe the neighbors do have legitimate complaints – but it’s funny how something so innocent can be turned ugly.

The money quote:

"They think we’re a cult," said Jeff Currivan, 17. "People think we should be home playing ‘Grand Theft Auto.’ "

I want a hamburger. No, a cheeseburger. I want a hot dog. I want a milkshake. I want potato chips...

by Slyde on Jul 10, 2008 9:40 AM EDT reply actions

The boys need to be out playing wwith some skank,

smoking crack. This cult stuff needs to nipped in the ‘bud’.

Lets get some real religion in their lives.
Wiffle ball is for pussies.

"When I got my award, I just wore my usual stuff," Dunn said.
"Was it for the Reds organization or all of baseball?" Bruce said.

by Madville on Jul 10, 2008 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions

That's sad

While I understand there are a lot of issues to consider, some of my fondest childhood memories are of playing baseball in a field with friends where the bases were trees or whatever we could scrounge up. It’s sad to think that at 31, the innocence of the world I grew up in has already vanished.

On a side note, how in the HELL does someone successfully sue for $6.3 million for breaking their leg sledding?

sig lines are for suckas

by jch24 on Jul 10, 2008 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions