You know, some of you girls should really rethink the whole idea of being aggressively pro- Red Sox fans on a predominantly NY-themed sports message board if taking shit about losing a nine run lead bothers you this much.
Do I have to go ahead and prove you wrong now? You really shouldn't post things which are so clearly not factual.
5-1 Orioles after 8. Jim R. Johnson pitching: Dustin Pedroia: Ball, Ball, Ball, Strike looking, Pedroia walked. Kevin Youkilis: Strike looking, Ball, Ball, Youkilis homered to right, Pedroia scored. Jason Bay: George Sherrill relieved Jim R. Johnson, Foul, Strike looking, Ball, Bay struck out swinging. David Ortiz: Ball, Strike looking, Strike looking, Ortiz struck out looking. Jacoby Ellsbury: Strike looking, Ellsbury singled to center. Jeff Bailey: Strike looking, Ball, Ball, Ball, Bailey walked, Ellsbury to second. Jason Varitek: Ball, Ball, Ball, Strike looking, Foul, Varitek walked, Ellsbury to third, Bailey to second Rocco Baldelli hit for Nick A. Green Julio Lugo ran for Jason Varitek. Rocco Baldelli: Strike looking, Strike looking, Baldelli singled to center, Ellsbury and Bailey scored, Lugo to second. J.D. Drew: Ball, Ball, Foul, Ball, Drew walked, Lugo to third, Baldelli to second. Dustin Pedroia: Danys Baez relieved George Sherrill, Ball, Strike looking, Pedroia fouled out to catcher. End of Inning (4 Runs, 3 Hits, 0 Errors) ======= middle of the 9th now, tied at 5.
Wow, what did I miss. I thought we were gonna have another chance to pick up a game on the Sawx. Interesting.
No, I contend that "classy" is subject to a double standard more than most words. And it's especially... oh, what's the word... "morally pretentious" will do, I suppose... to take "offense" to jokes made on an internet forum regarding the health of professional athletes who neither you nor I will ever meet. If it was your mother that had cancer, and I made a joke, that's one thing. If you wanted to make light of my uncle or grandmother who passed away from cancer, that's another. But that's not what we're talking about here. I suppose you find George Carlin classless and worthy of scorn. Or what about Dave Chappelle? I have a hard time believing either of you are such prudes as to recoil in horror at such a "lack of class" on my part. And if you do, then you both would be shunned as complete pussies by 99% of the Sox fans in my neighborhood who are far, far, far less tasteful, in general. (Being shunned by them is not a bad thing, in my opinion.)
I never said I was offended by it, I just find it interesting that you are spouting off about Sox fans' class in one post and making jokes about someone having cancer in another.
I didn't "spout off" about it. I just agreed that they're typically classless. And that's a true statement that is independent of any value judgment. They are typically classless in a manner that pales in comparison to any joke I made. Were the teams reversed, I am 100% certain that most of the Sox fans I see around here wouldn't limit jokes to an internet message board. They'd yell them at him in the on-deck circle, given the opportunity. And for the record, I find many/most Yankee fans to be rather classless, as well. Oh, and I put "offense" in quotes for a reason. I don't think you were actually offended, but to suggest that there is something classless about my joke suggests either some degree of offput-ness, or you were being disingenuous because of the laundry you root for.
My memory isn't the greatest any more but I don't remember Red Sox fans making jokes or crude comments about Joe Torre when he was diagnosed with cancer.
