Yankee fan/Not Yankee fan is a POLITICAL issue? Give me a fucking break.

[Stinky The Clown]

[blondeatlast]

1. No. Fucking. Kidding.

:banghead:

[rox63]

2. Yeah, around here it is... n/t

[Ramulux]

3. I dont get it either

I didn't realize there were people who still actually watched baseball, let alone gave a shit that their politicians watched it too. To be honest, I dont think Coakley was going to be getting the vote of anyone who thinks this is an important issue anyway.

[leftygolfer]

4. well said

no way those cretins would vote for Martha. just looking for an excuse to pile on

[virgogal]

5. Lots of people watch baseball-----a great game.

[WilliamPitt]

7. Then you don't know shit about Massachusetts

The Sox are a religion around here.

[virgogal]

16. Ditto! LOL

[WilliamPitt]

6. Welcome to Massachusetts

and to media morons not wanting to cover substantive issues.

[TheIdiot]

8. The least she could have said was...

there's another Pawtucket fan...

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp?sid=t533

[joeybee12]

9. Well, either you're not a Yankee fan or you worship Satan!!!! n/t

[Renew Deal]

13. Not Satan

just some other loser.

[joeybee12]

14. SATAN!!!

SATAN!!!!

[Shrek]

10. Some perspective from a sports blog

How Red Sox Nation seized control of the Martha Coakley-Scott Brown race

[gratuitous]

11. Beats talking about issues

After all, everyone understands being a sports fan. And if it can be turned to the disadvantage of a Democrat, everything can be made into a political issue, even if they have to make stuff up. For example, the completely manufactured NASCAR controversy during the Kerry campaign in 2004. Someone made up a bogus quote and attributed to it Kerry. "Who among us doesn't love NASCAR?" Kerry was supposed to have said, simultaneously showing Kerry's high-falutin' language skills and pandering to the NASCAR crowd, whom* everyone assumed to be Bush voters. The fact that Kerry never said such a thing didn't matter; the fake controversy did.

It's also an exclusively Democratic phenomenon. Anyone remember Mitt Romney's painful "Who let the dogs out" rap during the 2008 campaign? Of course you don't; nobody in the popular media saw fit to make a big deal about it. How about Michael Steele's more recent assertion of "honest injun"? Never happened, if you depend on the popular media to tell you about such things. But now Martha Coakley gets Yankee fan/nonfan mixed up? Burn the witch! screams the popular media.

*And now I've done it to myself, using "whom" instead of "who," like a real American would.

[Renew Deal]

12. There are two kinds of people. Yankee fans and people that want to be Yankee fans.

[bigwillq]

15. .....

:) :thumbsup: :hi:

[joeybee12]

20. Satan fans and people who wanna be Satan fans, you mean.....

too many typos...you must be more careful.

[TayTay]

17. Yes, it is

And speaking about it is a sign that you are local and understand the affections and likes and dislikes of people in your area. The Red Sox are a cultural touchstone in this area of the country.

Sorry if you don't like it. Then again, you probably don't live around here. Tell me, do you tell people in other areas of the country what they can and can't hold dear?

Jayzus H. Christ! When the Red Sox won in 2004, it was a freaking cultural event. Every cemetery in Mass, if not New England, had gravsites covered with balloons and pennants and flowers. We shared that victory with the generations that went before us because if freakin mattered.

God, how many more idiots who don't live here and want to tell people here what to believe and how to act are going to check in with mindless comments about a race they don't understand?

[Jersey Devil]

18. My favorite Red Sock: Bucky Dent

Oh, wait a minute. Make that Bill Buckner. Excuse me!

[arthritisR_US]

19. sooo, as long as the person is a bona fide Yankees' fan, doesn't matter if they

are a lying sack of shit, corporate prostitute, skewer babies in their dreams...they are more than vote worthy...what a f*cked up country.