Red Sux fans are insane.....

by td32 on Jul 3, 2008 11:08 AM EDT

I went to the game last night, and I gotta say it was unbelievable. Probably a 70/30 split for Rays fans. Everyone knows that there are bad fans for every team, but Red Sox fans absolutely atrocious. They come to someone else's yard, run their yaps the entire game while they are winning, and when you throw it back in their face, I swear to God, their only reaction is to want to fight. It is insane.

I would never go to Fenway, and hoot and holler whenever something good happens for the Rays. It is disrespectful, and a good way to get your ass kicked. I dont even mind people wearing their Papelbon and Ortiz jersey's....Hell, root for your team, but when you tease them at all, these idiots just want to throw down.

I saw 4 fights last night, AT THE GAME. After the game, at Ferg's, I saw a couple fights. I had an altercation where the guy threw up his hands and wanted to go at it. I had several friends that said the same thing happened to them, and the Sux fans are always the one's instigating the fight.

Just venting, I guess. But has anyone else had experiences like this with Sux fans? I always knew they were obnoxious. But I've been to 2 Rays-Sux games this year, and almost gotten in 2 fights because these cry babies cant take it when they are losing.

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Agreed...

After Monday’s loss, they were extremely bitter. I stayed in my seat for awhile after Wednesday’s game so I could avoid the inevitable altercations on the way out to the parking lot because I knew that if they were as pissed as they were after the first loss, lord knows they would be pissed after a sweep. I will say this, compared to the first series earlier this year, I didn’t see as many a-hole Sux fans, but I think that may be because there were a lot more Rays fans here this go-round.

by rayweaver on Jul 3, 2008 11:26 AM EDT 0 recs

It works both ways...

I went to the first two games (was out of town the third) and saw a pretty terrible display from some Rays fans as well. I was walking out through the main seating after the first game. A couple of elderly Red Sox fans were walking by us, the old man was using a cane and was easily 70+. We walked by some so-called Rays fans when a roughly 25 year old decided to get in the old mans face yelling at him to leave and that has team sucks. He just kept walking out.

I understand the desire of Rays fans to get amped up and cheer for their team, but there is a big difference between that and being idiots. I respect the right for an opposing fan to come to a game, root for their team, and have fun. The way to defend against that is to buy more tickets and cheer louder. We shouldn’t go out of our way to be idiots. The atmosphere of the trop those first two games was enough to shut the Red Sox fans up, no real reason to take it any further.

That said, female Red Sox fans are far and away the worse fans of any type that I have ever seen. It’s really incredible. They don’t want to argue baseball as much as they want to wear their pink hat and Rays suck and Sox are great.

I’m going to a Cubs-Cards game this series so I’ll get a much better understand of how a baseball rivalry works.

by tallyray on Jul 3, 2008 11:28 AM EDT 0 recs

I was in Fenway for the last Rays series.

My assessment was the following:

I live in NY and go to all the Rays games at Yankee Stadium. The Yankee fans are much tougher to deal with than the Red Sox fans at Fenway. In NY I often get food thrown at me and am hasseled the whole time.

At Fenway everyone was very gracious and knowledgeble.

I will always hate pink sox hats though.

by davelrogers on Jul 3, 2008 11:31 AM EDT 0 recs

When you go into someone else's stadium wearing your team's jersey...

You’ve got to expect to be harassed. That’s just the way it is. BUT, there is an obvious line you shouldnt cross. In the 1st Red Sox series this season, I sat in an all Red Sox section, and we were having fun giving it to each other the entire game. It was all in good fun. But there seems to be an awful lot of Sox fans that cant take a good ribbing. I’m not a dick about it at all, I just will tease them….and I dont care if that give it back to me in the same light hearted nature. But there are a lot of them that have ZERO sense of humor and are complete jackasses.

Clearly every team has bad fans, it just seem to me there is a disproportiante amount on the Sox side

by td32 on Jul 3, 2008 11:46 AM EDT up 0 recs

Agreed...

The good-natured ribbing is part of the game and what makes if fun to attend an away game. I suppose it only takes one person to change the atmosphere.

by tallyray on Jul 3, 2008 11:50 AM EDT up 0 recs

I second that

about everyone at Fenway (I came across) being friendly. I was there last year and saw the Braves demolish the Sox in the second part of a double header. I had a good time and I didn’t see any belligerant Sox fans getting mad at the group of Braves fans who made it no secret that they loved what they were seeing take place. My wife and I sat next to a guy who was really nice. We chit-chatted about us being from out of town and being Tampa Bay fans, and he even complimented the (Devil) Rays during our conversation. I think there is probably a difference between a Fenway fan and the Red Sox bandwagoners all across the country who are just a bunch of posers that care more about the colors they wear than they do the game itself.

by rayweaver on Jul 3, 2008 12:07 PM EDT up 0 recs

The non-bandwagon fans are very intelligent when it comes to baseball.

by R.J. Anderson on Jul 3, 2008 11:42 AM EDT 0 recs

No doubt...

I hope I’m not coming off as lumping them all together. As I said, just seems to be a lot of hot headed Sox fans that wanna throw down for the stupidest reasons…..because their team lost. Not too mention they’ve got to expect some ribbing when they go to someone else’s yard and run their mouths the entire game.

by td32 on Jul 3, 2008 11:48 AM EDT up 0 recs

The problem is

They’ve considered this their yard.

What was it that Papelbon said about paybacks again?

by R.J. Anderson on Jul 3, 2008 11:54 AM EDT up 0 recs

Papelbon fits the dumb jock stereotype quite well

by td32 on Jul 3, 2008 12:12 PM EDT up 0 recs

Welcome to the club

Camden Yards gets renamed Fenway South when the Pink Hat Nation plays there. At least you guys are beating them when they show up in your place…enjoy that.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 3, 2008 12:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

Exactly

The Trop isn’t the only field these people infest. Some people seem to act like we are the only place where there are lots of Yank and Sox fans.

Also is it just me or do the Sox have the largest group of bandwagon fans in the history of sports. The Yankees weren't this bad in the late '90s. Even other sports teams bandwagons have never had as many jump on like this. Bulls, Lakers, Cowboys, Patriots....I have seen nothing like it.

by Sveet on Jul 3, 2008 1:05 PM EDT up 0 recs

"Infest"

“The Trop isn’t the only field these people infest.”

“Infest” is the perfect word. Too bad they don’t make roach motels big enough to trap them before they make it thrgouh the gates…or do they? Until I find out, I’ll just toss a few cans of Raid with the special Anti-Nation formula into my bag of cowbells, sunflower seeds, and peanuts before I head to the next Sox series.

by rayweaver on Jul 3, 2008 1:21 PM EDT up 0 recs

I have seen it for YEARS!

Two year ago the DRO were giving away cowbells to drown out the Fenway “Hate-ful.” I was at my usual section. 144. I saw this group wearing white shirts that said, “Red Sox Nation.” The Rays won the gam, and the on of the “Nation” threw a cowbell narrowly missing a Rays fan. Needless to say the Rays fan was PISSED.

Yankees fans are just the same. i had a guy who kept on saying how great the Yanks were. The Rays won the game, and the guy wanted to fight me. I told him I don’t fight, he then started to talk shit about my wife. I still didn’t fight. A few hours in jail, a fine, and potential ban from the Trop is not worth kicking a Yakee or Red Sox fans ass.

While I am on my soap box. I have been challaged to fights by Orioles fans, Tigers fans, White Sox fans, a bunch of drunken Blue Jay fans, a Royals fan once while seating at the beach seats, and a Brewers fan in 04 or 05.

I know when I go to opposing teams stadiums I don’t say a word. I watch my team play and clap and cheer when the Rays do well. That is all. Maybe the reason why opposing fans feel so comfortable is because they live in the area. Just saying.

The line it is drawn/The curse it is cast/The slow one now/Will later be fast/ As the present now/Will later be past/The order is/Rapidly fadin'./And the first one now/Will later be last/For the times they are a-changin'..- Bob Dylan

by thebaddancingraysfan on Jul 3, 2008 1:27 PM EDT 0 recs

Every team has their jerk fans

including us. The Sox and Yanks just have a lot more of them.

I remember going to a Rays-Tigers game a couple year ago. It was the first year the Tigers were doing well in a while and some Tiger fan was heckling Rays fans all game unsolicited. He was saying your guys are so bad you should be contracted and stuff like that. I was like didn’t your team just lose 120 games a year or two ago? I mean who talks unsolicited trash to a Rays fan.

by Sveet on Jul 3, 2008 1:36 PM EDT up 0 recs

Drunk Jays fans

That is a little redundant in my opinion.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

by Sandy Kazmir on Jul 3, 2008 2:18 PM EDT up 1 recs

Extrapolate to Canadians in general?

I was joking of course. Man, I can only imagine. Being a Yanks fan of the somewhat more rational variety, and living in Calif., I’ve seen my share of bad behavior at the Halo. Good God, I go to a more popular Yanks blog to follow games I don’t watch and its like mass suicide if things aren’t going well. Maybe that says something about Yanks fans, or just blog following fans, or something.

But hey, baseball is a long season. Don’t blow a gasket over 1 game.

Did you all see Papi’s comments in Boston Herald .com about his concern with the Yanks vs. Rays?

And the Yanks lohud blog had an interesting post about your opening 2 weeks in Sept. Should be exciting – though I expect the more carried away here will respond it’ll be over by then. Good times for you all. See you next week, and have a great weekend.

by nyyfaninlaaland on Jul 3, 2008 4:40 PM EDT up 0 recs

Can't say that I've heard of this

I went to two of the games when they were here the first time around in the face of a more hostile crowd. There was one fat-ass drunkard trying to be a retard, but considering I’m 6’, 185, in good shape, and was about 20 years younger, and he was about 5’ 8” and 215 and kind of a fatass , he seemed like he wanted to take a bit less hostility towards me than to the 5’8” 150lb guy he was being a douche to.

by kericr on Jul 3, 2008 1:38 PM EDT 0 recs

I’ve only been challenged to a fight once at a sporting event and that was at an Alabama football game. I don’t think it counts if it happens in Alabama, as I’ve been told fighting is considered a show of affection down there. My brother-in-law, on the other hand, was almost kicked out of the 2006 SEC Championship game for being a drunken jackass.

Longlorious.

by RATW on Jul 3, 2008 2:36 PM EDT 0 recs

My encounter

Was with a couple Sox fans several rows above me. The first time I noticed them was after I got up and cheered the interference call. They were flicking me off.

Later in the game, during the rally. They called me out saying I wasn’t “wearing a Rays hat” (I was wearing a Montgomery Biscuits hat). I responded that the Biscuits were an affiliate, and they needed to go home and learn their baseball before running their mouths….To their credit, many of the Boston fans in my section laughed at them when this occurred.

by GomesSweetGomes on Jul 3, 2008 2:54 PM EDT 0 recs

I told a Sox fan to suck his wifes

penis infront of his kids after he called my gf a skanky bitch

by Sylar on Jul 3, 2008 4:37 PM EDT 0 recs

Hmmmm....

2 wrongs make a right?

by nyyfaninlaaland on Jul 3, 2008 4:41 PM EDT up 0 recs

No i'm just always right

by Sylar on Jul 3, 2008 4:50 PM EDT up 0 recs

lol what did he say back to u?

by RaysOfHope on Jul 3, 2008 10:39 PM EDT up 0 recs

On Monday night...

One Sawcks fan tried to start a “Let’s go Red Sox” chant in Sec. 144 not even 5 feet from the Cowbell Kid.

I blew my horn in that guy’s face. Rude, yes, but that guy had to expect that when there were 10 Rays fans with all kinds of noisemakers right next to him.

I also gave out a few pairs of earplugs for people who wanted them… See? I can be a nice guy as well as a douchebag.

by McLovin2.0 on Jul 4, 2008 2:14 AM EDT 0 recs

a friend of mine is a sawcks fan

he was at game 2 of the series and yes he got in a fight

by dropkicknu on Jul 4, 2008 9:42 AM EDT 0 recs

did he win or loss?

by RaysOfHope on Jul 4, 2008 10:26 PM EDT 0 recs

it got broken up real quick

he said he was walking out after the game and a rays fan bumped into him so my boy was like “watch where the f* you’re going” and the rays fan took a swing at him then he took a swing too. neither one really connected good and then people stepped in. its just funny because i knew he was going to the game and i also know he’s a hothead so i was telling him “just don’t get in a fight” and sure enough he did.

by dropkicknu on Jul 5, 2008 12:34 PM EDT up 0 recs