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2 Comments:
yo jeff - I feel you. I can't stand it when the sox are described as 'long suffering' or 'long frustrated' either, because it's essentially the national media bumrushing the bandwagon. It's the kind of language that gets trotted out along with the 'curse' crap whenever Joe Buck or Tim McCarver or ESPN need storylines, since it has very little to do with how people out here think/feel day-to-day - we aren't underdogs and the only one around here who's lived the hard-knock life is our back-up shortstop, and we know it. I can't stand it when the media descends and portrays us as luckless imps obsessed with our own lucklessness, still ruing the days of 'no, no nanette,' or when the rather unpleasant history of the sox is confused for the team we field today - I'm referring to pumpsie green, not the babe.
(I can appreciate the scarface proxy love, but as for the astros themselves, I seriously doubt if anyone on that team has heard 'guess who's back.')
Did you see that ESPN piece on the Houston Colt .45s? Now there was an underdog. They had to ditch their stadium cause the mosquitos were as big as Beltran's hands. Then the gun manufacturer sued them for the copyright infringement. All of which kinda makes them hip-hop in a way, even tho it's true that they are a pretty Mellencamp kinda team.
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