By adamg on Fri., 5/19/2023 - 9:12 am
No, not New York. Seattle. Maura McGurk plumbs the depths of Marinerville's hatred for the Sox and, sometimes, all of New England:
One of Matt’s friends didn’t wish to be identified but said that the “transitive properties†of all of New England were to blame for the way Seattle feels about the Sox and their fans. Matt explained that “snotty†New England things like Harvard and the Hamptons were problematic for him.
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New Englanders hated the Hamptons, too, which
By MC Slim JB
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 9:23am
is why we broke it off from Cape Cod and attached it to Long Island.
Reminds me of Bluto...
By Former Westroxer
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 9:41am
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
Maybe they meant
By Michael
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 9:49am
All the -hampton towns out in the Pioneer Valley, which, it's really hard to have a strong opinion about them unless you've had some bad cider donuts or saw a lousy show at the Iron Horse
Though eastern Long Island
By anon
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 12:22pm
Though eastern Long Island does have a historical connection to New England since it was colonized by the English, rather than the Dutch in NYC and the Hudson Valley.
MA traded the Hamptons for Nantucket and Dukes County
By Cleary Squared
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 7:04pm
For a short while in the 1680s, Massachusetts ceded Dukes County (which then comprised of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and the Elizabeth Islands) to what was then the Province of New York. In 1691, Dukes County was returned to Massachusetts, but Nantucket County was split from it.
Matt's friend needs ot
By anon
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 9:35am
Matt's friend needs ot realize we don't give a f*ck about what he thinks about us:)
TIL that Seattle has a pro
By xyz
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 9:37am
TIL that Seattle has a pro sports rivalry with Boston, at least according to them, and also, apparently, they have sports teams.
I have friends in Seattle, and all the
By MC Slim JB
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 2:26pm
stereotypical Portlandia-style hipsters there are giant Sounders (MLS) fans who don't care about the Big Four sports.
At least their NHL team exceeded expectations before crashing in the playoffs. (Their mascot is utter shit, though.)
Seattle is just jealous because they don't yet...
By U-Hub-Fan
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 9:42am
...have a major league baseball team.
They hate us for
By perruptor
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 1:16pm
our
freedomweather.It’s very surprising the
By Sewer Rat
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 10:33am
It’s very surprising the author was actually heckled out loud considering the amount of passive aggression that city runs on
Marinerville?
By Vicki
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 10:41am
I think that unnamed friend is pulling the reporter's leg.
I lived in Seattle for a few years, and the locals barely seemed to care that there was a baseball team there. They cared about football.
If anyone there hated the Red Sox, the "transitive" argument wasn't from failing basic geography, it was Seahawks fans associating the Red Sox with the Patriots.
She does bring that up as a possibility
By adamg
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 10:57am
I guess it's no different from Bostonians yelling "Yankees suck!" during Celtics games.
That chant jumped the shark
By tachometer
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 6:12pm
I think it was in summer of 2001 that I saw Trey Anastasio in Mansfield and on the way out when the fans started chanting "Yankees Suck" I knew that we had crossed the rubicon.
I remember I was into
By Matt Frank
Sat, 05/20/2023 - 6:08am
I remember I was into wrestling into college and for me it peaked when I was at the Fleet Center for a wrestling show in early 2001 at a WWE show and during a lull the chant broke out and it was deafening. Nothing happened to instigate it, it just happened. I mentioned it to friends who said the same thing happened at a random concert for one and another was at a high school game and the school officials had to go into the crowd to break up the chant.
This was months before 911 which caused a lull in the New York hate , plus then we had the Patriots start their dynasty and the Red Sox did the unthinkable and actually won then again...
So yeah that chant jumped the shark over 20 years ago but it's also possible it hibernated for a bit , came out of hibernation and then jumped that shark again lol
Seattle does have its share of media wind-up
By MC Slim JB
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 2:33pm
artists. Does anyone remember the hilarious "grunge speak" fiasco?
Wrong link
By Saddlebrook7
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 3:19pm
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Fixed,
By MC Slim JB
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 4:10pm
thanks!
I would more likely expect Rays fans to hate us
By Ron Newman
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 12:07pm
except that there aren't any Rays fans, despite that team's recent success.
They're Right To Be Sore About That 1997 Trade
By Keeping It Real
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 12:26pm
That sent the Sox Jason Varitek and Derek Lowe (key pieces of their 04/07 WS wins) for Heathcliff Slocumb (who went 2-9 with a ~4.50 ERA over 1.5 seasons)
A rare lopsided trade W for the Red Sox
Terrible trade
By ckd
Sat, 05/20/2023 - 12:10am
How terrible? SBNation published an article for its 20th anniversary about how terrible it was.
If my state shared a border with Idaho
By Friartuck
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 1:37pm
I'd be full of hate.
I went to Seattle once.
By redheadedjen
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 2:08pm
I went to Seattle once. Everyone told how much like Boston it was but I found it nothing like Boston. It is a good city (I like Portland better.) but nothing like Boston.
Never heard the Boston comment
By tachometer
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 6:16pm
But I've been to Seattle a few times and the way the geography breaks everything up it feels more like a bunch of suburban town centers stitched together.
Cool but where the fuck is
By anon
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 2:56pm
Cool but where the fuck is Seattle
Its a strange PNW misconception
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 5:39pm
I blame Kennedy Worship (and pretentiousness) and pre-Affleck Hollywood for giving people the impression that New England is all rich people and prep schools and snotty snobs with affected accents.
The Kennedy accent
By SamWack
Sat, 05/20/2023 - 5:20pm
was not a snotty one, or a snooty one either; it was more Boston Irish than Boston Brahmin.
Hamptons? They're a lower
By Rob
Fri, 05/19/2023 - 8:13pm
Hamptons? They're a lower-tier brand under the Hilton umbrella. Nobody gets pretentious or snobby about them!
'Bucks
By Addled
Sat, 05/20/2023 - 6:38am
Seattle unlashed a former small chain of decent coffee shops into a snooty overpriced leviathan wiping out coffee shops nationwide with their aggressive siege tactics. Dunkin' is a POS chain too, but they don't pretend they are upscale as does The Mermaid who lives in urns of hot coffee.
I'm from the PNW and I can tell you
By lurchie
Tue, 05/23/2023 - 8:37am
That the sports fans there are some of the worst. I'm not really a sports fan, but my theory is they're just jealous of a city that has reasonably consistent sports teams (just don't get me started about the Bruins this year.
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