"Real fans", huh?
Jun. 28th, 2008 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The A's have been running ads for this weekend's series against the Giants with the tag line "come see baseball with real fans."
This has pissed Giants Nation right the fuck off. We're the ones who used to fill Candlestick on summer nights where hypothermia was a real possibility. We're the ones who realize that enjoyment of a baseball game does not require beach balls, horns, or excessive amounts of really bad beer.
They just announced that this is just the third sell-out of McAfee Coliseum this season. Judging from the noise and the amount of orange in the crowd shots, a good 65% of these people are Giants fans. Over at AT&T Park, we've had over a dozen sellouts with a worse team.
"Real fans." Hmph.
This has pissed Giants Nation right the fuck off. We're the ones who used to fill Candlestick on summer nights where hypothermia was a real possibility. We're the ones who realize that enjoyment of a baseball game does not require beach balls, horns, or excessive amounts of really bad beer.
They just announced that this is just the third sell-out of McAfee Coliseum this season. Judging from the noise and the amount of orange in the crowd shots, a good 65% of these people are Giants fans. Over at AT&T Park, we've had over a dozen sellouts with a worse team.
"Real fans." Hmph.
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Date: 29 Jun 2008 03:10 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Jun 2008 03:46 (UTC)Hell, not even the 1989 World Series created a real rivalry.
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Date: 29 Jun 2008 03:17 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Jun 2008 03:23 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Jun 2008 03:46 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Jun 2008 05:15 (UTC)Of course, at least I'm not a fan of those hitless wonders down South.
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Date: 29 Jun 2008 11:28 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 30 Jun 2008 00:01 (UTC)2) Abner Doubleday...you know that when people say "The White House announced today" that it wasn't actually the White House talking, yes?
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Date: 30 Jun 2008 00:51 (UTC)"Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed field in accordance with these rules, under jurisdiction of one or more umpires."
The designated hitter is a tenth player.
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Date: 30 Jun 2008 17:38 (UTC)*g, d, r*
ETA: And need I remind you it was a NL team that introduced artificial turf? Hail Boston. Hail Charleston. Who stinketh the most?
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Date: 29 Jun 2008 03:49 (UTC)Well, at least we finally won one from them.