Thank You, Grace Ross

I await Kerry Healey's response ad to this...





"soccer fan Grace Ross rapes elderly women"

 

No it's not. When's the last time you went to a Green-Rainbow Party rally, Monty? http://graceandmartina.org/

Looking at her agenda, I fink she's for the elimination of human beings in massachusetts. That's pretty much what it would take.

I do like her policy on abolishing poverty, though. I just hope she has enough time in her first term to get accident prevention legislation through the assembly. You know how them two party bastards have ties with "big accident" corporations.

 

either way, I love how upset the journalist got by the response





"holy crap, people like soccer? but she is not a foreigner, my baseball/football only brain is too small to under...but red sox...patriots...nothing is outside our country other than Toronto...world series...world champions...why...WHY"


I am amused by the ignorance

 

How often do the Revs get a front page mention in the Globe?

 

You'd think since she's running for Governor she could take a better picture of herself.

 

I don't fink she has a good side.

 

And that should matter why?

 

I was amused also, but I sent an enlightening email to the writer, Don Aucoin (aucoin@globe.com).

Hi Don,

In your article about Grace Ross in today's Globe, you describe the New England Revolution as "the most obscure sports franchise in town". The Revs may be obscure to you, but to the nearly 20K people that attended the Revs last home game, they are hardly obscure. The Bruins had only 17K for their home opener a fews days later, and when was the last time the Celtics got 20,000 people?

All of the local media outlets have ongoing coverage of the team, every single Revs game is televised, and your own Boston Globe has Frank Dell'Appa covering the Revs and filing stories almost daily. If they really were obscure, why would the Globe have Frank spending his time covering the team? In just 11 seasons, the Revs have carved out a solid place on the local sports scene.

 

Can I defend my profession here?

Aucoin's point is valid. We can make all the claims we want about where the Revs stand in the public concious, but the truth is, a politician expressing no care for the Red Sox or the Patriots and preferring what is, like it or not, still a niche sport is kind of odd and noteworthy.

 

Yup, and when you do that, you better leave it as a a simple "Go Sox". If Kerry didn't have a political machine backing him, he'd be referred to as "Manny Martizez" until the day he died.

 

Anyone catch that he's, in a back-handed sort of way, criticizing her for not PANDERING?

 

many American sports journalists do whatever they can to take a shot at the sport because "hating soccer is more American than apple pie and baseball"




I disagree and I laugh when I read comments in the paper like that...I am not insulting the profession

 

Yeah.

 

I laugh at Don Shaughnessy. He made a career out of the Red Sox sucking and blamed it on a Curse, and when that was thrown out the window in 04, he hasn't done anything since. He's a joke. Him and MLS have a lot in common.

 

one of the worst

 

As a Green-Rainbow party member, I was in support of Grace Ross from day one, but now with this shocking revelation I'm having second thoughts. I mean, how could we possibly have a governor who is not a millionaire, not a member of one of the two major parties, not even a heterosexual...and on top of that a fan of a team that typifies frustration (oh wait, that used to be the Sox)?!?!?

Oh, what the heck, I've been a Revs fan since day one, I should be able to handle the disappointment on election night.

 

I motion to have Grace Ross signs in The Fort on saturday!