The Douchebaggery of Red Sox Nation

I have meant to start my blog back again for a while now but I didn’t see the need as I had Twitter to keep people apprised of my every move and thought. Seeing the picture here online the other day has forced my hand to say something I been thinking for a while now.

I hate being a Red Sox fan.

Not because we do not have a good, fun team at Fenway. In fact, I will be almost as thrilled if they win it all this year than I was in ’04 because of all the crap they had happen to them this season with injuries and, of course, the Manny situation. But as a whole The Nation has become the thing we hated. Douchebags.

Now of course not all Red Sox fans are douchebags. I know I’m not one (well at least no one has told me otherwise), but over the last 4 years and 2 world championships there has been an huge increase in Douchebaggery in Red Sox Nation. (As well as Patriot Nation – hopefully this will not move over to the Celtics now that they won but I do not have too much hope for that. As for Bruins fans – they are just sad and angry). And fans of other teams are starting to turn on Boston teams now because of this. We are now the villains. Sports columnists in other cites are painting the Red Sox as arrogant where only 4 years ago they labeled them as lovable. And it’s not the teams that caused this shift. It’s the fans. And I hate being lumped in with these jerks.

And what is frustrating about all this Douchebaggery is that the main offenders were nowhere to be found before 2004. They came out of nowhere after the first World Series win. Before Red Sox fans were baseball fans as much as we were Red Sox fans. We cheered when a player from the other team made a great defensive play or went 5 for 5 at the plate. Now we boo the other guy no matter what. These are probably the same front-running jerkoffs that routed for the Cowboys in the 90s.

Picking out the Douchbags is easy. They are the ones acting like graduates from Cobra-Kai screaming like they are at Wrestlemania. If you need more of a hint, look at the picture above. And this is what an audience sees when the Sox are on a national TV broadcast. And I winced even more when TBS was panning to a group of these guys between innings more than I did at the super bad taste Poltergeist Direct TV ad.

No wonder people don’t like Boston fans. We have become just like Yankee fans used to be. In fact, we have switched places. This year, especially with the Bronx Bombers missing the playoffs for the first time in more than a decade, Yankees fans have become subdued and almost docile in nature. This season most Yankee fans knew the season was lost back in early August.

And although it’s all worth dealing with for the 2 championships, of course, I just wish I could be proud to say I am a Red Sox fan.

At least I can say I was one before it was fashionable.