and we did do a little better in terms of turnout, but no asshole fans… then again, the fact that we had clearly established our return to ineptitude by that point might have helped.

of this off-season will be to watch how much money both the Sox and Yanks throw at their teams to try to KEEP UP WITH US!!!!

Even better, is we don’t have to add a god damn mother fucking penny to our payroll to beat them next year!!!

I LOVE THIS!

Unless all your players turn into assholes and your fans all become entitled douches.

I’m an Indians fan. While yes, when we play you guys during the regular season, I will want Cleveland to win, I won’t be at the game (or at home) yelling “STRIKE THIS FUCKER OUT” or “Let’s get these assholes”.

Congrats. and WOOT.

Well, I’ll take it under consideration, but maybe while we’re thinking about it, you could just casually drop us a pitcher or two… say, that Garza feller is pretty good….

I hated the Red Sox a loooooong time before they happened to hit the Rockies like a train. Long time. Back when they were still plagued by the curse of the Bambino.

And I really like your team, by the way, and don’t think I’d hate them. Only if they start strutting and getting full of themselves. And even then I’d still be pretty okay with them as long as they didn’t do it too much.

And I’m a woman, BTW.

I agree with rayweaver that it’s mainly the fans who get massively arrogant… hell, the Cubs fans make it impossible to go to Cubs/Rox games, even though the Cubs haven’t won jackshit in a century. As long as you guys don’t do that, I’m cool with it.

And also, don’t need to get so aggressive… I was coming over to make love, not war. I LIKE the Rays, and I’ll be just fine with them being successful. That was the whole POINT of this post.

they are not mutually exclusive. Most people that jump on something without ever having to ride out the depressing times are not humble because whenever they experience the downtimes they move on to something else. It is a fact of sports that some people are so concerned with self-preservation (ego in this case) that they will jump from team-to-team gloating about the highs and never feeling the depressive effects. That is fine, but most people can spot these guys and gals from a mile away and treat them appropriately. This goes for your own fans and those of the opposition.

It’s generally torture punctuated by random moments of brilliance, like most of September and October last year. It felt good to be a Rockies fan then. Hopefully it will sometime again, but one playoff series still proves that we got a long way to go, and I think most long-time fans of teams get that. It’s the poseurs who jump in and make things irritating for the rest of them.

but if he was, it wouldn’t surprise me, since O’Dowd does love him some waiver-wire retreads. Actual good young pitching tends to be beyond his radar screen, or once it gets there, it then sinks to the clutches of Bob Apodaca.