any loyalty issues. It's better to say you don't care about baseball
in general than to say you root for any team other than the red sox.
I just skip the thing, catch a mantinee or something when everyone
else is either at the game or watching it. The sox had the nerve to
only televise games on pay cable stations this season, so people like
me who don't have any pay cable stations can't watch it on TV.
Doesn't affect me, but I'm sure there are others like me.
--- In [email protected], "David Patch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Ellen" <ellengoodman6@>
> wrote:
> > Yeah when I moved here I didn't get
> > the big deal about baseball. We lived our lives geographically
> > inverse--I'm native of DC, now in Boston, you appear to be the
> > reverse. How can baseball be more of a big deal than football,
even
> > when the team wins 3 superbowls in 4 years?
>
> The best explanation I have heard for this phenomenon is that while
> the Red Sox have been a part of the New England scene for more than
> 100 years, the Patriots are relative newcomers, having only been in
> existence since c.1960 when the AFL was formed. Consequently, there
> are still a fair number of New York Giants fans throughout the New
> England states, dating back to when the Jints were the closest pro
> football team around. But except for people who moved in from other
> places, and perhaps a very small number of native brickthrowers,
being
> a baseball fan in New England means being a Red Sox fan. The Sawx
are
> practically part of the culture.
>
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