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CHB To Pink Hat Nation : Where Were You When We Were Shit?
Published 10/27/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... Complaining “it’s no longer about the contest, now it’s performance art with style points”, the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy advances the tired argument that Red Sox fans under the age of 90 are spoiled rotten. ...

Boston Globe: Shaughnessy: Winning isn’t the only thing
Published 10/27/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Boston Globe: Shaughnessy: Winning isn’t the only thing Shaughnessy...and his love of the game. Really. It has come to this. The Sox are so good and they’ve been clutch for so long (five straight postseason wins and six straight Series wins) that they’ve spawned a small legion of new fans who have no idea what rooting for the Red Sox was like. And so now we have some alleged “fans” who aren’t satisfied with just another world championship. They want the cherry on top. They want all the Fenway trappings to go along with it: “Sweet ...

Everybody Loves the Red Sox
Published 10/27/2007 by PostmanE at FanHouse
... Hey, have you heard? The Red Sox are in the World Series! Even more, they have a lot of bandwagon fans! This is surely the first time you have been privy to such a shocking revelation! ...

Red Sox greeted by cheers
Published 10/27/2007 by Devin Clancy at Sports Scope
... cheering section of Boston faithful. USA TODAY's Paul White reports swarms of Sox fans downtown, many likely without game tickets. (Although tickets for these games didn't go on sale until after the Red Sox clinched, so they had as good a shot at getting them as Rockies fans did.) Soon after, the Rockies made their way off the field to a louder cheer from Colorado fans. The Boston Globe's Dan Shaughnessy, who helped coin the term "Red Sox Nation" took new converts to task in his column today . A particular target was those fans hoping for two Rockies wins here at Coors just ...

Kudos & Wet Willies
Published 10/29/2007 by ETVal at Valentine's Views
... The Boston Red Sox. God, I hate it, but the Red Sox have now won two World Series titles in four years. With a slew of young talent, Boston is set up to be a dominant team for the next 8-10 years. Get used to it, Yankee fans. Remember that sense of entitlement you used to feel during the late '90s and early 2000s? Probably right up until Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS? Well, now that's what they feel in Boston. ...