Baseball

It's almost time for me to care about baseball again (and blogging for that matter). At this point in the season, I'm a casual fan at best. Why? NBA PLAYOFFS of course. Nothing trumps basketball, not even the mighty Red Sox.
On a side note, I was at a bar the other night, and some old guy asked why I had a Red Sox hat on. "I went to school up there, sir," I replied. Then his female companion proceeded to tell me it was not a real Red Sox hat because the logo was crooked (I wear my hat tipped to the right side). I responded with "would it be better if I wore my hat straight? would that make it a "real" hat?" then she realized her mistake and felt kind of dumb. Actually, I at first thought she was mocking me wearing my hat crooked, whereas in reality, she was just dumb and thought that crooked hats were now in mass production.

Anyway, here's footage of David Ortiz and Terry Francona goofing around. enjoy.

Manny Being Manny

so I'm basically ripping this post off from withleather who does a much better job at blogging than I ever hope to do. Classic footage of Manny being Manny. Although the last one STILL creeps me out.

Boston Fan an Idiot

Now, I'm a Red Sox fans by all means. Yeah, I'm also a self-admitted bandwagon jumper as I really didn't care much for baseball from the mid-90s strike until the 2004 ALCS game where the Sox came back to destroy the Yankees. But upon moving to Massachusetts, I did notice how dumb a majority of the fans are. Most of them have seemingly forgot that their is life outside of sports and instead to dedicate the majority of their existence to wearing Red Sox clothing, talking about how great the Red Sox are, and being general proponents of the Sox even in the off season. Thus is the life of nutty fan. But fans rarely deter me from liking a team itself (but see the RAIDERS).

Sox fan sabotage

But the NY Post has a story about a Boston fan / construction worker possibly jinxing the new Yankee stadium by placing a Red Sox shirt in the concrete poured in the stadium. First, this guy is a true moron. Why put a Sox shirt under the VISITING team's locker room? Why not under the Yankee's locker room? Now, I'll admit, baseball players are the most superstitious of all the American athletes, but this is just purely stupid. Do you really think that a t-shirt will forever jinx a stadium? Maybe what will jinx them is all of the money spent on high profile players as opposed to developing a viable minor league system with players not named Joba Chamberlain? Second, is a jinx really news? Really? There is no scientific evidence that jinxes actually exist. Rather mere speculation, and mostly coincidence that is attributed to jinxes. Did the Sox really go without a World Series for so many years because there was a curse? No! They didn't win because winning a World Series is hard for teams to do (see Kansas City, Seattle, San Francisco, and any other team with an extensive drought of World Series victories or without a championship at all).

In summation. Both the construction worker and the NY Post should be beaten mercilessly. The construction worker for high-fiving himself in his mind for such a 'great' idea and the NY Post for posting a potential jinx as news.