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?"
That's ok, Deval would help get the rapist out of jail. And that's enough of the political crap on both sides please.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
One more time. NO POLITICS. Any more, and the thread will be closed. David-The Grumpy Mod (and equal opportunity political hater)