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Tampa Bay Rays choke vs Yankees

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if i had to move to NY (what an AWFUL THOUGHT!)  i would still be a Rays fan so i cant blame them. 

but i sure do hate them. 

That is all we are saying (and yes, that would be an aweful thought ;D)

I could never move to NY and root for the yankees or mets.  0% chance.

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My worse fear is that I get a lucrative job offer in BOSTON, that is to hard to pass up. That would be a tough decision...

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My worse fear is that I get a lucrative job offer in BOSTON, that is to hard to pass up. That would be a tough decision...

I bet you'd take the Job, and you'd probably be at every game when the yanks were in town.

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If that person grew up a sox fan in the middle of Brooklyn... the following must be true

1)  he has put up with harassment his entire life from people around him

2)  his commitment to his team must be phenomenal to put up with that harassment

3)  he must have his head on straight ;)

Those are the type of fans that are usually the MOST hardcore b/c they are constantly fighting off the verbal abuse and banter from the NY fans that are surrounding him on a daily basis.

That person goes through complete hell every time he puts on his Sox hat and walks throughout the city, and still does it with pride.

I like it.

Same would go if it was a yanks fan living in Boston.  Good luck to him... it would be tough... but I know if I lived in NY... i'd be one of those fans... flaunting my sox/celtics/pats and BULLS! clothing daily.

Now put that guy in Tampa.  He grew up, like everyone else here that is older than 10, rooting for a different baseball team.  We get a team in Tampa, and the people that have pride in their community and embrace something that is theirs root the home team on over 10 miserable years.  Then you've got some joker that somehow has no problem being a Bucs or Lightning fan, that goes to the Trop when the Yankees are in town and is the guy in front of you doing the "Let's go Yankees" cheer incessantly.  I'm supposed to be ok with this?

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My worse fear is that I get a lucrative job offer in BOSTON, that is to hard to pass up. That would be a tough decision...

I bet you'd take the Job, and you'd probably be at every game when the yanks were in town.

Yea if I could get tix. And its not like a comany will give them up to a yanks fan so i'd be on my own  :D

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You don't have to be ok with ANY of it... but it doesn't mean he is wrong... if he grew up rooting for the Yanks, and then another team opens up... he is not obligated to root for the local team.  He chose to root for the yankees for ages before that.  He shouldn't have to change b/c you don't like it and you don't have to like it.  It is just how it is.

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My worse fear is that I get a lucrative job offer in BOSTON, that is to hard to pass up. That would be a tough decision...

I bet you'd take the Job, and you'd probably be at every game when the yanks were in town.

Yea if I could get tix. And its not like a comany will give them up to a yanks fan so i'd be on my own  :D

True, and if you saw how much bleacher tix go for fenway... it would make you think twice, too.

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You don't have to be ok with ANY of it... but it doesn't mean he is wrong... if he grew up rooting for the Yanks, and then another team opens up... he is not obligated to root for the local team.  He chose to root for the yankees for ages before that.  He shouldn't have to change b/c you don't like it and you don't have to like it.  It is just how it is.

Exactly.  Freedom is a beautiful thing  ;D

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Definitely not saying it's "wrong" or that he doesn't have the right to root on whichever team he/she pleases, just as I have the right to think that person is a complete tool.  I would compare it to the feeling I used to get towards people walking around campus at USF with Gator/Seminole/Hurricane shirts on (though football was in it's first few years of existence when I was in school).

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Very similar scenario indeed... (although college allegiances have their own issues... especially the florida/florida state @ USF issue), but your point is well taken.

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