Boston Globe declares the Sox still own Boston

Eric Wilbur with some mild stupidity that the Globe editors gave an even stupider headline:

http://www.boston.com/sports/column...town_where_the_quarter.html?p1=feature_sec_hp

Maybe Boston feels more like a Brady town these days than, but celebrity crushes -- no matter how strong -- can only last so long before you end up back at the doorstep of the one you truly, deeply love.

This might not be the year to expect a parade from the Red Sox, but that doesn’t make us love them any less.

Whenever Brady walks away, will we possibly ever say the same about the Patriots?

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A Patriots preseason game got higher ratings than a Red Sox playoff game a couple years ago. I'm sorry this is not just a Brady town, it's a Brady/Gronk/Edelman/Belichick/Kraft/next man up town.

Wilbur alludes to the gap between the sports' popularity, but this is not a passing fad. The popularity of the game of football and of baseball are going in opposite directions, even in spite of the bumbling fool in charge of the NFL.

Lol okay.

I'd take this more seriously if the boston globe wasn't owned by the red sox owners.

I watched more of TB12 running around in an Easter bunny outfit yesterday than I did of the Sawx playing their opening day game.

They do realize its not 1998 anymore right?

Stupid.

I like steak. I like apple pie.

I don't have to just have one or the other, and they are nothing alike, and they don't have to be in competition with each other.

Well, maybe for a few Sunday games in September is all. 4/162 of the baseball season (2.5%).

Wilbur and Pravda West are clearly trolling pats fans here...

In terms of the fan base in this town, I don't even know if they beat out the Bruins in popularity anymore. This is clearly a Patriots town now though. That debate ended a few years ago

But do you expect the Globe to say anything other than this is a Red Sox town?

Remember how far attendance dropped at Foxboro the year Brady went down with an injury?








Neither do I.

New England Pride said:

They do realize its not 1918 anymore right?

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Fixed it for you.

Back in my dart playing and bar crawling days when I knew and associated with MUCH people than I do now (kids getting older, wife, mortgage, work, private school, etc,. kind of put a kibosh on drinking and darting every week) there was a clear almost "line of demarcation" between people who leaned toward the Pats and people who leaned toward the Red Sox. This is probably from 96/97 to about 2010/11.

I say this because I'd regularly be in bars from Quincy down to Attleboro and West Roxbury down Washington St to Foxboro/Plainville to play darts and the closer you got to Boston the more likely you were to be Red Sox. To me, the line of demarcation was the Dedham/Hyde Park/West Roxbury line. Once you got into West Roxbury people were WAY more into the Red Sox than the Pats, but more southerly - Walpole, Foxboro it was way more Pats people.

There were plenty of guys who took the Pats' success as an afront to the Red Sox.

Many of the "city" people I met & played darts against were "passive" Patriots fans, but they lived and died with the Red Sox - these guys hung on every f#cking pitch and it took forever to play a dart match because they were always stopping and watching the game whenever someone got on base! Anyway, my $0.02...

So this 19th century sport is still played in the 21st? It survived the 20th century era of purchased championships?
Who knew?

The Sox inferiority complex is awesome

If saying things made them true I'd be having a threeway with my wife and her sister tonight.

When the first and fourth preseason games (you know the games where Brady and a lot of the starters barely play if they play at all) can outdraw any regular season and many post season Red Sox games in the ratings, you know this is a Patriots town.

I was a huge Red Sox fan for many years. Now I typically watch six total innings during the year. I won't even DVR the Patriots because I need to see every play live.

To me, baseball has been ruined forever by a series of scandals, a money-grubbing idiotic commissioner, and greedy, overpaid players.

Ice_Ice_Brady said:

I was a huge Red Sox fan for many years. Now I typically watch six total innings during the year.

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I still watch, but not nearly as often. When I was young I was watching them every game. When you add it up, you could spend 10% of your waking hours for the year watching baseball. That's just overkill. The game is too long and there are too many games.

Football is the perfect product - best game and just the right amount of it. Until Goodell screws it up and implements the 44 game season with games 7 days a week morning, noon and night.

I started following the Patriots since the snow game before their first Super Bowl win -- over 15 years.

And yet, the Patriots were the #4 team on the web sites of the Globe and Herald.

CBS and FOX showed Giants games ahead of Patriots whenever possible.

NFL in Massachusetts was like the MLS is today.

It wasn't until Brady's 3rd Super Bowl that MA media started listing the Patriots first.

It took time for Massachusetts to accept that Patriots reached the final game 4 of 9 years (97-05) back then, just like the NE Revolution reached the finals about 4 times.

What a tired topic. Actually, Bob (the *****) Ryan wrote a column in Sunday's Globe pretty much acknowledging that the Patriots are now #1 but he's still a baseball guy first. Who gives a ****? Football is #1 with me, but I can still love baseball and basketball and our teams which play them. I always feel that people who get their panties in a bunch over saying one is the best and the others suck are insecure and have too much time on their hands. To me, it sounds like a middle school cafeteria argument and I know the response will be that I should ignore the topic if I don't like it and I'll save everyone the time, because from now on I will. Jesus, what a colossal bore...

Here is the difference