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The Mighty Quinn Media Machine —
... http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/070829&sportCat=mlb ...
Baseball Today: Thursday, August 30
Projo Sox Blog —
... THE GREATEST INSULT: ESPN.com's Jim Caple, who grew up rooting for the Red Sox, says the 2004 championship has Sox fans acting like Yankee fans and he has no use for his former compadres. (''As soon as the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series, Boston fans took on a swaggering, entitled persona, acting as if they alone invented sports fandom and behaving as if nothing else in baseball mattered but them.'') ...
Jim Caple Says Cheering For Your Team In A Visiting Stadium Is "Bad Manners." I Disagree.
The Smittblog —
... Below is a breakdown of Caple's major arguments and my retorts: ...
Afternoon pennant-race action
Sports Scope —
Jim Caple: Douchebag
A Red Sox Fan From Pinstripe Territory —
... Now look at it from Jim "I Better Prepare the Pee-Proof Dome for my Gravestone and Surrounding Area" Caple's point of view: The Red Sox. A team whose fans "take over" seats from--I'm not making this up--"hard-working local fans," who should keep a World Series celebration "to ourselves" like the White Sox fans did (?), and who are--ooooooh, "acting like Yankee fans." Oh, no, what will we do, we've been told by a douchebag that we're acting like Yankee fans! Everybody, let's all stop rooting for our team! and just sit quietly when they win the World Series for the first time in our damn lives! ...
Sedition in Red Sox Nation — ... For a change, I am not the only one railing against Red Sox Nation. Red Sox fans have become so arrogant and unpleasant that Jim Caple (author of The Devil Wears Pinstripes) has himself repented of being a Red Sox fan. Caple wrote this piece ripping Red Sox fans for the way they have comported themselves following the 2004 chamopionship run. It's really quite good. Not quite as good as a three game sweep by the Yankees, but still worth the read. ...
ESPN: Caple: Shut up, Red Sox Nation
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
ESPN: Caple: Shut up, Red Sox Nation I m just back from Jersey Shore Nation...so, I m not sure if this was posted. No one can stand to be around Red Sox fans anymore. And they re everywhere a recent USA Today article labeled the Red Sox baseball s new biggest attraction. Forget a fence between the U.S. and Mexico. What we really need is a wall, a moat and a minefield around New England to keep the spoiled citizens of Red Sox Nation from sneaking into the rest of the country and taking over seats in major league ballparks that should go to hard-working local fans. Everywhere the Red Sox play these days turns into a road version of Fenway Park, with Boston fans occasionally drowning out the hometown fans with their Let s Go Red Sox! chants. They were so over the top at a recent game in Seattle, I was surprised the Mariners didn t play Sweet Caroline. Whether this is an inspiring show of team pride by ...
