Thank You, Grace Ross

Discussion in 'New England Revolution' started by jw, Oct 27, 2006.

  1. jw

    jw Member

    Feb 18, 1999
    Massachusetts
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    http://www.boston.com/news/local/po...2006/10/27/underdog_ross_adds_atypical_voice/
    Front page of the Globe, Friday 27 October, (below the fold).


    "When a student at Massasoit Community College raised his hand and asked: "Do you like the Red Sox?" Ross considered the question as carefully as she had pondered other queries about healthcare and affordable housing. "I'm actually not much of a baseball fan or a football fan," she finally replied. "I like the Revolution. I'm a soccer fan."

    Of course the next line is from the stooge writer, Don Aucoin:

    "It was enough to make a political consultant weep. What kind of candidate gives the back of her hand to the beloved Sox and the powerhouse Patriots while pledging allegiance to the most obscure sports franchise in town? Where are the votes in that?"
     
  2. patfan1

    patfan1 Moderator
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    Aug 19, 1999
    Nashua, NH
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That's my kinda politician! ;)
     
  3. edlova

    edlova Member

    Nov 22, 2004
    Somerville, MA
    I await Kerry Healey's response ad to this...





    "soccer fan Grace Ross rapes elderly women"
     
  4. patfan1

    patfan1 Moderator
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    Aug 19, 1999
    Nashua, NH
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    New England Revolution
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    United States
    That's ok, Deval would help get the rapist out of jail. :p

    And that's enough of the political crap on both sides please.
     
  5. Chowda

    Chowda Member

    Sep 13, 2004
    Rhode Island
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    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.
     
  6. edlova

    edlova Member

    Nov 22, 2004
    Somerville, MA
    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 :)
     
  7. patfan1

    patfan1 Moderator
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    Aug 19, 1999
    Nashua, NH
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Jeez, all I was saying is that I liked her response that she's a soccer fan. :p
     
  8. NER_MCFC

    NER_MCFC Member

    May 23, 2001
    Cambridge, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    How often do the Revs get a front page mention in the Globe?
     
  9. JMMUSA8

    JMMUSA8 New Member

    Nov 3, 2001
    Webster
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You'd think since she's running for Governor she could take a better picture of herself.
     
  10. Chowda

    Chowda Member

    Sep 13, 2004
    Rhode Island
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    I don't fink she has a good side.
     
  11. KATref

    KATref Member

    Dec 31, 2005
    Stow, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    And that should matter why?:confused:
     
  12. dtrave

    dtrave Member

    Oct 2, 2000
    Sharon, MA
    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.
     
  13. Argyle

    Argyle Member

    Jan 31, 2002
    Plymouth, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
  14. Chowda

    Chowda Member

    Sep 13, 2004
    Rhode Island
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    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.
     
  15. rkupp

    rkupp Member+

    Jan 3, 2001
    Anyone catch that he's, in a back-handed sort of way, criticizing her for not PANDERING? :eek:
     
  16. edlova

    edlova Member

    Nov 22, 2004
    Somerville, MA
    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
     
  17. Sean Donahue

    Sean Donahue Member

    Aug 31, 2001
    Massachusetts
    Yeah. :rolleyes:
     
  18. jrkumor

    jrkumor New Member

    Jun 16, 2005
    H2O-Town, MA
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    New England Revolution
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    United States
     
  19. JMMUSA8

    JMMUSA8 New Member

    Nov 3, 2001
    Webster
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
  20. edlova

    edlova Member

    Nov 22, 2004
    Somerville, MA
    one of the worst
     
  21. MouseyTongue

    MouseyTongue New Member

    Feb 16, 2001
    a box in the Chairma
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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. ;)
     
  22. I motion to have Grace Ross signs in The Fort on saturday!
     
  23. GOREVS3000

    GOREVS3000 Moderator
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    New England Revolution
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    Sep 18, 2006
    Boston
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    2 de Mayo
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    United States


    Since when was hating soccer American?
     
  24. GOREVS3000

    GOREVS3000 Moderator
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    New England Revolution
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    Sep 18, 2006
    Boston
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    2 de Mayo
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    No Monty, you got it wrong...

    Deval would build rape camps for senior citizen AND let everyone out of jail.

    Get your Republican talking points straight and stay the course!
     
  25. SirFozzie

    SirFozzie Moderator
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    Apr 17, 2001
    Franklin, MA
    One more time. NO POLITICS. Any more, and the thread will be closed.

    David-The Grumpy Mod (and equal opportunity political hater)
     

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