Is this the best sports city in the world or what

[Kontradiction]

I root for the Heat in basketball, but I do root for the Sox and Pats (and Bruins, though I just started following hockey full time this past postseason, but my family are all huge B's fans). In all, it's been a great ride and hopefully the Pats can add to that list in February.

 

[PATSNUTme]

The Patriots are New England's team - not Boston. Boston had 2 bites of the apple and spit out each one. Boston does not deserve to get credit for the Patriots.

If it were up to Boston the Patriots would playing in a southern, midwest, or west coast city.

I'm glad the Red Sox won. But what I stated is fact, not sour grapes.

 

[Kdo5]

Since 2000:

5 SB appearances
3 SB wins
3 WS wins
3 NBA finals appearances
2 NBA championships
2 NHL finals appearances
1 NHL finals win

That's 13 title game/series appearances, and 9 titles, in 12 years, and all 4 major sports have at least one title. That may not (or may) be the greatest run ever, but it sure feels great to be a fan of that quartet!

Celts only appeared in two and won one of them. We did come close to another appearance two or three years ago. But still point taken!

 

[PatsDeb]

It sure is! We are so lucky! In what other city can you say, okay, my team just won the World Series, and now I can put all my focus on whether my 6-2 football team is going to stay the course and go on that kind of run! And in between, I can watch my favorite hockey team have another good year and hopefully be there at the end. I am not a basketball fan, but I do like "keeping up" with the Celtics and will be interested in watching them rebuild.

As for all the championships, I say keep the parades coming!!

 

[Uncle Rico]

Fenway crowds are the best crowds in American sports. Last night rivaled a European soccer crowd.

Good thing it wasn't a Patriots crowd there in Fenway last night.

Place would've been half empty by the 8th inning.

Can you imagine if that was a Patriots game last night? I don't know what the football equivalent of all those Cardinals getting on base is — maybe opposing O in the red zone?— but this board would have melted down. Even with a 42-7 lead in the fourth quarter. And the error by Pedroia (=pick by Brady?) would have killed the entire site. Oh, and my ignore list would have grown.

 

[BSR]

Fenway crowds are the best crowds in American sports. Last night rivaled a European soccer crowd.

Good thing it wasn't a Patriots crowd there in Fenway last night.

Place would've been half empty by the 8th inning.

I still want to throw up in my mouth every time I see that courthouse on the waterfront that cost us a downtown football stadium. I think you would see a much better crowd at the games if we had that city presence. What a waste.

 

[Ring 6]

I still want to throw up in my mouth every time I see that courthouse on the waterfront that cost us a downtown football stadium. I think you would see a much better crowd at the games if we had that city presence. What a waste.

Not sure how you get a better crowd than every game being sold out

 

[Tunescribe]

Fenway crowds are the best crowds in American sports. Last night rivaled a European soccer crowd.

Good thing it wasn't a Patriots crowd there in Fenway last night.

Place would've been half empty by the 8th inning.

Get off it. You can praise Red Sox fans without dissing Pats fans. I've never seen a Gillette crowd thin out during a championship game. And apparently you didn't tune in during the ALCS when those petulant dweebs loudly booed Drew for striking out and loudly booed Morales for putting runners on base. Of course they're the "best crowds" when things are going splendidly, just like any other stadium on the planet.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

It's dead, Jim

World Series: Why Kids Aren't Watching Baseball - WSJ.com

 

[50-yard-line]

Get off it. You can praise Red Sox fans without dissing Pats fans. I've never seen a Gillette crowd thin out during a championship game. (And apparently you didn't tune in during the ALCS when those petulant dweebs loudly booed Drew for striking out and loudly booed Morales for putting runners on base.)

Yeah, I was there and the booing of Morales was embarrassing. Guy's had a tough, injury-ridden year and didn't get a called strike. It happens, get over it.

Also, read the game threads at a site like Sons of Sam Horn. They are just as vitriolic and brutal as anything you see here. A guy can be hitting at a .400 clip for a month straight, then squander a scoring opportunity and the next 50 posts are "F*** you, SO-AND-SO, DIE!!!!!!" and "Cut him!"

Part of the perception of "different" crowds comes down to two things: the size of the club at Gillette and the acoustics.

When you see all those empty seats at a Pats game in the middle deck, it usually means there are thousands in the HUGE clubs. The bathrooms in the clubs have like 30 urinals. The bathroom in the Sox State Street Pavilion Club has four.

The club seats at Fenway have FULL MENUS and wait service (and it's great). At Gillette, you go in to get food and drinks.

The sound system at Gillette drowns out everything. You can't talk to the person next to you when they're playing music. And the acoustics at Gillette SUCK. Even when people are screaming at the top of their lungs, it doesn't reverberate 1/10th as much as at Fenway.

Add to all of that the fact that most of the people at Gillette have been sitting out in the parking lot eating and drinking for a couple of hours BEFORE the game...

I have to admit, though, when 36,000 people finish Victorino's at-bat song at Fenway, it's magical. The place was shaking last night.

 

[Tunescribe]

It's dead, Jim

World Series: Why Kids Aren't Watching Baseball - WSJ.com

MLB baseball is slipping into anachronism except for traditional enclaves like Boston, St. Louis and Chicago.

 

[Kontradiction]

Get off it. You can praise Red Sox fans without dissing Pats fans. I've never seen a Gillette crowd thin out during a championship game. And apparently you didn't tune in during the ALCS when those petulant dweebs loudly booed Drew for striking out and loudly booed Morales for putting runners on base. Of course they're the "best crowds" when things are going splendidly, just like any other stadium on the planet.

Things have been going splendidly for the Pats over the last ten years and you can still hear a gnat fart in that stadium when the defense is on the field.

 

[50-yard-line]

It's dead, Jim

World Series: Why Kids Aren't Watching Baseball - WSJ.com

Great article! I caught a foul ball in Game 2 and looked around and shouted out, "Any kids around?"

Found a 10-year-old in the row behind me a few seats down and gave him the ball, but almost everyone around me was too old to even have kids anymore!

This makes me very sad, because every kid should play baseball. It builds character like no other sport. You can't hide in baseball. It's you and the ball and everyone's watching.

 

[Tunescribe]

Things have been going splendidly for the Pats over the last ten years and you can still hear a gnat fart in that stadium when the defense is on the field.

So says the guy who attends games vicariously in front of a television in his living room.

 

[Kontradiction]

So says the guy who attends games vicariously in front of a television in his living room.

1. People that go there say the same thing.

2. I've been to Gillette for games so I've seen it in person.

3. TV stations don't have some sort of plan concocted against the Pats to make their crowd suck by lowering the crowd noise.

4. Seattle's field has an open end and they're the loudest stadium in the NFL.

I've told you before, you may scream the entire time. But the stadium is among the most quiet in the NFL. Even worse, there's always a sell out and it's quiet. It is what it is, the crowd sucks. And it sucks bad.

 

[Deus Irae]

Get off it. You can praise Red Sox fans without dissing Pats fans. I've never seen a Gillette crowd thin out during a championship game. And apparently you didn't tune in during the ALCS when those petulant dweebs loudly booed Drew for striking out and loudly booed Morales for putting runners on base. Of course they're the "best crowds" when things are going splendidly, just like any other stadium on the planet.

You crap all over the Red Sox and their fans. Let it go, for one thread.

 

[PatsDeb]

Get off it. You can praise Red Sox fans without dissing Pats fans. I've never seen a Gillette crowd thin out during a championship game. And apparently you didn't tune in during the ALCS when those petulant dweebs loudly booed Drew for striking out and loudly booed Morales for putting runners on base. Of course they're the "best crowds" when things are going splendidly, just like any other stadium on the planet.

Amen brutha! My thoughts exactly when I read that post. Can't we celebrate without dissing somebody?!

 

[signbabybrady]

Some Pics from last night.

The blurry one of the back of the seat is a copy of the name plate on my seat at Gillette which pays respect to my grandfather. Had to bring it with us to Fenway!

The tickets are the 3 SB wins, Game 6 last night, Game three Bruins 2011, and Game one Celts 200! FGSSAND is the best!!!!

 

[PatsDeb]

NOOOOOO! Please don't let a thread about this being the best sports town on the planet descend into an unwinnable (on any side) argument about the crowd noise at Gillette. AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!

 

[PatsDeb]

Awesome pics, signbabybrady! Thanks for sharing! As I was watching the win I said out loud, "That lucky crowd!! Wish I was there!!"