Red Sox fans suck: boo Alex Rodriguez milestone.

Last night in Boston Red Sox fans booed Alex Rodriguez when he stepped from the dugout to pinch hit in the 8th inning with the Yankees and Red Sox tied 2-2.  Rodriguez smashed a dramatic home run to both win the game for the Yankees and also reach an historic milestone.  Rodriguez tied Willie Mays at 660 career home runs.  Mays accomplished this with almost 1,000 more at bats, a fact lost on everyone one else in this galaxy.

Red Sox fans then displayed the monumental poor taste, lack of sportsmanship and hypocrisy to boo Rodriguez as he quickly circled the bases.  Were they just being playful or mean spirited representatives of all baseball fans.  Or are they just too dumb to know why they did it?  Who boos a milestone, even by a player of your arch rival?  Who does that?

Boston Whiteskins Wednesday, October 30, 2013

I have long maintained that there are probably more black people on the teams than in the stands at a Red Sox game in Fenway Park in Boston, MA...

Boston was the last of the 16 major league teams to have a black player: Pumpsie Green July 21, 1959...

Red Sox nation is insulated and isolated geographically, culturally and racially.
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Red Sox and Cardinal precedents. Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Do the same people attend each game in Fenway Park?  See figures below for 2013, 1975, 1967 and my previous post: Boston Whiteskins...

1918 World Series (4-2): Boston Red Sox (75-51) over Chicago Cubs (84-45) ...

The Red Sox won game six at Fenway Park before 15,238 fans...

Ruth would set single season home run records in each of the next three seasons:
1919 29 Red Sox home park: Fenway Park
1920 54 Yankees home park: Polo Grounds
1921 59 Yankees home park: Polo Grounds.

Thus was born the "Curse of the Bambino", the transfer of Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees.  In 1927 Ruth broke his own record for the final time with 60 home runs playing his home games in Yankee Stadium.
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Red Sox nation, the Evil Empire. Thursday, October 31, 2013

2013 Major Baseball League (MBL) tournament ... games 6 and 7 being scheduled in Fenway Park Boston ...

The media is all over the fact that this is the first time since 1918 that Boston can celebrate at home.  Actually, that circumstance was enjoyed by only 38,447 members of Red Sox nation, one more than in game 2 and two more than in game 1.  Presumably this would be the usual tight knit group of white people...

And lest we forget the Ryan Dempster and Alex Rodriguez incident:

Monday, August 19, 2013  Coward Ryan Dempster should be suspended 211 games for deliberately hitting Alex Rodriguez.

To their disgrace nearly all the Red Sox fans in Fenway Park cheered this vigilante act.  A pitcher deliberately hitting a batter is much worse than a batter using steroids.  And these Boston hypocrites ignore the fact that the best player on the two Boston championship teams this millennium was Manny Ramirez, the only Hall of Fame caliber player to serve suspensions for using banned performance enhancing drugs (PED).  Not to mention David Ortiz who is still a member of the Red Sox.  All of Boston should be ashamed.  Last night a representative sample of its population became the ugly mob.  I've long thought that the two baseball teams combined, including coaches, had more black people than were in the stands for a typical baseball game at Fenway Park.  Check for yourself the next time you watch a game there on TV.  When the Red Sox took the field last night the closest player to a person of color was Shane Victorino.  That must have been comforting to the most parochial narrow minded fans among the 28 cities that have MBL teams.
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With the Yankees determined to get their team payroll under the $189 million cap in 2014, Boston may well have the highest AC payroll next season.  Red Sox nation, the destroyer of worlds in three of the last ten seasons, will truly be the Evil Empire.
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In 2014 the Red Sox honored players from their 2004 championship team, featuring Manny Ramirez.  Red Sox fans cheered him wildly.  Irony abounds.

Maybe Red Sox fans are grumpy about stuff like:
- Ted Williams son having his father's corpse frozen
- Wade Boggs getting hit number 3,000 for Tampa
- Roger Clemens getting win number 300 for the Yankees
- guilt over being the evil empire.

One of my long time statements: I never met a Met fan who knew what he was talking about or a Boston fan of any sport.

So what are the origins of the Red Sox fans hating Rodriguez?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Rodriguez

Following the 2003 season, Texas set out to move Rodriguez and his expensive contract. The Rangers initially agreed to a trade with the Boston Red Sox, but the Major League Baseball Players Association vetoed the deal because it called for a voluntary reduction in salary by Rodriguez.
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Rodriguez agreed to reduce his salary to become a Red Sox player and then the Red Sox fans hated him when that was blocked and Rodriguez was subsequently traded to the rival Yankees.  Red Sox fans are dumb.

Compound that with the apparently still raging hysteria about performance enhancing drugs (PED) and the result is what happened last night.  Some perspective is in order.  Recent disgraceful events in Baltimore prompted the Orioles to play a game a few days ago but bar fans from attending.  The Times ran an article on this type of sports thing and most examples involved soccer, a truly mindless team sport.

Oh, and to drive home that point about the at bat discrepancy: who had the advantage?

Rk	Player	AB	HR	From	To	Age	G	PA	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	SH	SF	GDP	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	Pos	Tm
1	Babe Ruth	8399	714	1914	1935	19-40	2504	10622	2174	2873	506	136	2214	2062		1330	43	113		2	123	117	.342	.474	.690	1.164	971/H83	BOS-NYY-BSN
2	Barry Bonds	9847	762	1986	2007	21-42	2986	12606	2227	2935	601	77	1996	2558	688	1539	106	4	91	165	514	141	.298	.444	.607	1.051	*78H/D9	PIT-SFG
3	Alex Rodriguez	9888	660	1994	2015	18-39	2589	11429	1933	2956	523	30	1983	1255	93	2098	169	16	101	241	322	76	.299	.384	.558	.942	65D/H3	SEA-TEX-NYY
4	Willie Mays	10881	660	1951	1973	20-42	2992	12496	2062	3283	523	140	1903	1464	192	1526	44	13	91	251	338	103	.302	.384	.557	.941	*8H/39675	NYG-SFG-NYM
5	Hank Aaron	12364	755	1954	1976	20-42	3298	13941	2174	3771	624	98	2297	1402	293	1383	32	21	121	328	240	73	.305	.374	.555	.928	*9783DH/45	MLN-ATL-MIL

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Would Red Sox fans have booed hit number 3,000 by Rodriguez?  A-Rod has 2,956 Hits so we might know soon how that milestone is treated.  I'm guessing more favorably, home or road, even in Boston.  We Americans are whacky when it comes to home runs.

I hate defending the likes of Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez.  Both can be engaging but both are liars and Bonds is mean spirited, which Rodriguez is not.  When Bonds broke the season home run record I thought: I don't like this guy but I've got to hand it to him.  What he did was amazing.

That should have been the reaction of Red Sox fans last night when Rodriguez hit a home run that should have quieted the crowd.  Just sit there in silence but don't boo.  Take it like a reasonable baseball fan.  Then, maybe, give the guy his due and applaud.  Soft, admiring applause would have been in order.  A-Rod overcame your rough treatment in this game situation and hit a milestone home run too.  Deal with it with some sense of sportsmanship and self respect.