a red sox fan lament

[Beer Snob-50]

okay, it is looking good for the sox getting santana. and with him, we can start printing world series tickets today. however, at what point do we as sox fan start to feel like we are becoming like the yankees? yes, we are one of the teams that can afford and are willing to spend the money to get good talent. but why not just use the talent we have as well as the talent from our farm system?

anyways, i will be up for this season if this deal goes through. i will still be there from the start of spring training til the last out of the ;year. and i still will be a diehard fan as it was passed down from my grandfather to me and further passed down to my kids.

[Tektonik]

1. You've been like the Yankees for a while already

[Drum]

2. .

:nopity:

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. "start to feel like"

The poster above is correct: the Red Sox have deployed the 1990's Yankees model for several years now, perhaps a decade. But you are correct in asking about that self-perception, that "starting to feel like it." The self-perception of the Red Sox fan is 1,000 miles away from the economic realities of the Red Sox model.

The Red Sox Nation is an ideology, and nobody likes their ideology exposed as ideology.

[Beer Snob-50]

6. i am not fond of the term "red sox nation"

i think of that as strictly a marketing ploy for many bandwagoners. looking back at the teams history, they have spent money freely and i guess the difference between the red sox and yankees is that the yankee purchases have produced better than the sox.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

4. So the Sox got another Twin?

I swear that if the Twins held onto their players they'd be this close to winning another World Series. David Ortiz, etc...

[Beer Snob-50]

5. this has been reported by two or three sources. nt

[Rambis]

7. As a Cub fan

I wouldn't give a rats arse how they do it just win one before I die.

[madinmaryland]

8. Hmm. The Yankees are printing WS Tickets also.

Whom to believe?