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The city that hates the Red Sox
By adamg on Fri, 05/19/2023 - 9:12am
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
is why we broke it off from Cape Cod and attached it to Long Island.
Reminds me of Bluto...
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
Maybe they meant
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
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
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
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
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
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...
...have a major league baseball team.
They hate us for
our
freedomweather.It’s very surprising the
It’s very surprising the author was actually heckled out loud considering the amount of passive aggression that city runs on
Marinerville?
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
I guess it's no different from Bostonians yelling "Yankees suck!" during Celtics games.
That chant jumped the shark
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
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
artists. Does anyone remember the hilarious "grunge speak" fiasco?
Wrong link
.
Fixed,
thanks!
I would more likely expect Rays fans to hate us
except that there aren't any Rays fans, despite that team's recent success.
They're Right To Be Sore About That 1997 Trade
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
How terrible? SBNation published an article for its 20th anniversary about how terrible it was.
If my state shared a border with Idaho
I'd be full of hate.
I went to Seattle once.
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
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
Cool but where the fuck is Seattle
Its a strange PNW misconception
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
was not a snotty one, or a snooty one either; it was more Boston Irish than Boston Brahmin.
Hamptons? They're a lower
Hamptons? They're a lower-tier brand under the Hilton umbrella. Nobody gets pretentious or snobby about them!
'Bucks
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
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.