Letters to the Editor
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"Their team doesn't get on my nerves, their fans do."
And then you turn around and base this assertation on fictional characters played by actor extraordinaire Jimmy Fallon? Get a grip - stop lumping. If everyone who wasn't a Yanks or Sox fans stopped watching FOX/ESPN broadcasts of their games, there wouldn't be enough interest to justify the broadcast - so someone else HAS to be watching...
True story: 4th game of the WS in 2004. It's the 8th inning. It's 4-1. It's looking pretty much like we're actually going to see a WS win for the beloved Sox in our lifetime (my dad died in 2001, just in time to miss 3 Patriot champs and 1 Sox champ). I turn to my friend who is an even bigger "jinx" believer than me and said "If god came down right now and said you can have one of 2 things: A Red Sox World Series Championship or a John Kerry Presidency, I'd totally pick a John Kerry Presidency." My friend, without hesitation, knowing he could be jinxing the whole thing (the whole theory of jinxing is absurd, isn't it?), said "Oh, God yes, in a second!"
That's how self-obsessed we Red Sox fans are in real life. And my heart broke a little bit when Schill turned up, less than a week after the greatest sports moment in my lifetime, on a podium with my worst fear: the 2nd term of the Bush presidency!!!!