Oh? Why not?
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Oh? Why not?
It does when those 3 games are the deciding factor for the entire season.
Game 7, World Series, down by 1, runner on third, bottom of the 9th inning, 2 outs..
The hitter hits a home run.
Is that swing worth 14 million dollars?
OK. If you say so.
:)
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He hit .342/.454/.618 with 4 HR and 18 RBI in September.
The Red Sox went 15-11 in September.
The Red Sox really played no part in the tight finish. They never stopped winning. The Yankees simply played outstanding. .
Yes Dan - which is what I said originally.....:rolleyes:
Talka bout Bandwagon fans in Seattle. If we aint winning, people don't go to games..sonic games?
As for the Mariners, where were the fans in the 80-92'?
Personally I hate Boston more than the yankees. At least the yankees have had good owners since the 1920's (generally speaking). And Stienbrenner is a win at no cost owner. I wish more owners were like that.
I have never been aware of Boston having "bandwagon" fans. Personally, I have been a sox fan since I was a child. When the Red Sox are eliminated, the season is basically over for me. On the other hand, any team that is successful will have casual fans jump on that "bandwagon", so to speak. There were Chicago Bulls fans, because of Jordan.... and when MJ left, and the championships stopped...those fans left. These are not what the purists refer to as "true" fans, and I agree with them.
The type of bandwagon fans that I'm talking about are the ones that live in the cities of the team that the Red Sox are playing who's team sucks and so they see the Red Sox's record and decide to cheer for them instead of their hometown team. Those people are morons.
But you're just assuming that anybody that lives in that city that's cheering for the "opposing" Red Sox is doing it because they're winning. You don't know the first thing about any of those fans. They all very well could be true Red Sox fans. Perhaps they used to live in Boston, went to college in Boston (like robinhoodnik said), simply like Boston despite not being from there, etc. Just because someone is from a certain city, Seattle in your case, doesn't mean that they're obligated to root for that city's team, nor does it mean that if they root for another team, specifically a winning one, they're doing so because of the winning record.