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"smacdo" <fake.RemoveThis@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Look, I am sure the fans of the Rockies like their team enough...I am
> simply saying that the Rockies have recently seen a spike...you know what?
> Forget it. I'm bored with this...
>

Sorry, I was hoping for a better response than 'get more folks to the ball
park' ... should I have offended your family? Said that it's stupid to eat
clams? ... Sorry, we don't do that here ... but thanks for trying to
respond.

Bob
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> "smacdo" <fake.DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> > Look, I am sure the fans of the Rockies like their team enough...I am
> > simply saying that the Rockies have recently seen a spike...you know
what?
> > Forget it. I'm bored with this...
> >
>
> Sorry, I was hoping for a better response than 'get more folks to the ball
> park' ... should I have offended your family? Said that it's stupid to
eat
> clams? ... Sorry, we don't do that here ... but thanks for trying to
> respond.
>

I don't know...but isn't filling the park during a pennant race reasonably
fundamental to being good fans? I guess you people really are different in
how you support your team. But thanks for droppin' in.
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>> "smacdo" <fake RemoveThis @nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> > Look, I am sure the fans of the Rockies like their team enough...I am
>> > simply saying that the Rockies have recently seen a spike...you know
> what?
>> > Forget it. I'm bored with this...
>> >
>>
>> Sorry, I was hoping for a better response than 'get more folks to the
>> ball
>> park' ... should I have offended your family? Said that it's stupid to
> eat
>> clams? ... Sorry, we don't do that here ... but thanks for trying to
>> respond.
>>
>
> I don't know...but isn't filling the park during a pennant race reasonably
> fundamental to being good fans? I guess you people really are different
> in
> how you support your team. But thanks for droppin' in.
>


Yep, I suppose so, but, hunting season just cranked up, and A-basin (a ski
area) just opened up, and fishing is really good here in the fall, and you
need to be driving around the high country to see the aspen changing ... So,
maybe I'm seeing your point ... if you're a baseball town you ignore all
this other stuff and just go to the ball park ... thanks, but no ... so,
maybe you're right ... but we don't care

Bob

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> >> "smacdo" <fake DeleteThis @nospam.com> wrote in message
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> >> > Look, I am sure the fans of the Rockies like their team enough...I am
> >> > simply saying that the Rockies have recently seen a spike...you know
> > what?
> >> > Forget it. I'm bored with this...
> >> >
> >>
> >> Sorry, I was hoping for a better response than 'get more folks to the
> >> ball
> >> park' ... should I have offended your family? Said that it's stupid to
> > eat
> >> clams? ... Sorry, we don't do that here ... but thanks for trying to
> >> respond.
> >>
> >
> > I don't know...but isn't filling the park during a pennant race
reasonably
> > fundamental to being good fans? I guess you people really are different
> > in
> > how you support your team. But thanks for droppin' in.
> >
>
>
> Yep, I suppose so, but, hunting season just cranked up, and A-basin (a ski
> area) just opened up, and fishing is really good here in the fall, and you
> need to be driving around the high country to see the aspen changing ...
So,
> maybe I'm seeing your point ... if you're a baseball town you ignore all
> this other stuff and just go to the ball park ... thanks, but no ... so,
> maybe you're right ... but we don't care
>

You might find this really hard to believe Bob, but there are a few other
things to do in Boston besides taking in a ballgame too. Those get put on
hold when you have a chance to see the Sox play. You can do those things
another time. For one thing it's a tough ticket. This is why it's not such
a good idea to build these enormous ballparks that you can't fill.
Whatever. You folks will never understand the insanity and fun of being a
true diehard, lunatic Red Sox fan. This whole town becomes obsessed with
it. It's pretty friggin' neat.
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> Oh, and I thought you were a human being ... so sad ... and your previous
> post set most everything pretty straight and then you resort to this ...
>
> So, now I'm really hoping for global warming and that you and Boston get
> drowned in your idiocy ... are you really this stupid?
>
It's because I'm a normal human being that I can only take so much of your
condescending, self important, pompous bullshit. Run along now to your
superior *Rocky Mountain High*. You must have so many more pleasurable
things to amuse yourself with than trolling this newsgroup of the Boston Red
Sox.
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"Bob" <Junk.RemoveThis@bin.net> wrote in
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> No, at least I get it now ... all you care about is baseball ... and
> that's fine ... to each his own.
>
> Here, we choose to live our lives.


So your argument is that we have no lives...but you are sitting here on
Usenet, talking about baseball, just like the rest of us?

As long as you feel better about yourself I guess...
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"Dano" <janeanddano.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> You might find this really hard to believe Bob, but there are a few
> other things to do in Boston besides taking in a ballgame too. Those
> get put on hold when you have a chance to see the Sox play. You can
> do those things another time. For one thing it's a tough ticket.
> This is why it's not such a good idea to build these enormous
> ballparks that you can't fill. Whatever. You folks will never
> understand the insanity and fun of being a true diehard, lunatic Red
> Sox fan. This whole town becomes obsessed with it. It's pretty
> friggin' neat.


The argument is always the same...we have lives, we have other things going
on, blah blah blah. Like their town is the only town that has things going
on.

I've lived in a lot of different places. I would dare say over half of the
North American population lives roughly the same script. Wake up, go to
work, come home, eat dinner, an activity of some sort (probably related to
the kids somehow), TV, go to bed.

But yeah...nothing going on in Boston but the Sox. No Pats, Celts, BC
Eagles, Bruins, hockey, running, hunting, fishing, skiing, canoeing,
theatre, concerts, restaurants, or anything else...

Just Denver. (And Philly...which has a lot...a lot of culture lol)
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Well, duh, if I could cut and paste and choose what I wanted to reply to ...
I meant to include:

> But other than that...bang on. And it still doesn't change the fact that
> Denver isn't a baseball town. Its a football town, and a pretty good
> hockey town. Like I said, there is no shame in jumping on a bandwagon, it
> happens all the time. The shame is in acting like you have been there all
> along.

So the response was to the comment about being a baseball town ... excuse me
while I go get another Limoncello ...

Bob

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>> In fact, I normally don't bother going into these details, but the job I
>> have carries a tremendous amount of responsibility. If you have
>> travelled
>> in an aircraft overseas anytime in the last six or seven years, I have
>> likely had your life directly in my hands.
>
> So, here's a serious question from someone who is not a 'fan' of baseball
> but does follow things off and on throughout the season ... you say that
> Denver is not a baseball town (I'd probably agree), but how do you define
> a 'baseball town'? Not that the folks here want to change anything to get
> on the 'list'!!
>
> And, I think it's hard to do for a baseball place like Denver, where the
> fans come to see a game from like 500+ miles away. It's hard to get the
> same intensity that you see in Boston.
>
> Bob
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