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Sounds like somebody's a little jealous down in the City of Brotherly Love
By adamg on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 6:44am
Poor little Philadelphia columnist (who thinks Bostonians pronounce "waiting" as "wahtin"):
The people in Boston have become obnoxious, arrogant, condescending. And those are just my friends up there.
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It's official! I despise
It's official! I despise mainstream society. "Spectator sports are important." I weep.
Couldn't hear his whining over the sound of my own awesomeness
Seriously, "Gonzo", if you don't like it, then win. The best way to keep us from winning is to beat us. If you don't or you can't, then suck it up and stop crying, come back, and try it again.
My favorite part is the links
My favorite part is the links all over the page saying
"Phillies fall to A's 4-1."
It is not "us". It is f-ing
It is not "us". It is f-ing corporations of millionaires who let a city of dumbasses consider them "us", so long as we make them millionaires.
According to the story, the
Yeah, how sickening. A boy and his father bonding when the local sports teams win championships. How DARE those arrogant Bostonians give their children memories that they will treasure for a lifetime!
This, coming from the city
This, coming from the city with the most miserable fans in all of pro sports. They booed Santa Clause for Christ sake.
After reading this, I was
After reading this, I was going to wear my Philadelphia Fire Department t-shirt, which I won in a bet when the Pats beat the Eagles, but it's in the wash. So I'll have to choose between my Denver and LA shirts.
Punctuation
Shouldn't a Santa, Clause, be set off by commas?
Paging all grammarians.
Paging Groucho & Chico
You're thinking of the sanity clause.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Having lived in both places,
Having lived in both places, neither city should be bragging.
It's true we have a lot of know-nothing bandwagon fans
That's what happens when the local pro teams win championships. Having lived through many championship droughts here, I can say with certainty that this is a worthwhile price to pay.
Sports appeal to a broad cross-section of society. That some fans are jerky about their homerism merely reflects the fact that a stubborn percentage of human beings are jerks. I'm pretty sure this is not a location-specific phenomenon.
As a non-native Bostonian, I have to concur
I was at Fenway last year, wearing the away team's jersey (not the Yankees, but an AL team that has won plenty of division championships in the past decade). I was talking to the guy sitting next to me with his daughter. It took him awhile to notice that I wasn't rooting for the Sox (because I am polite about it -- I come from a state of nice people). When he finally did, his comment, in all sincerity, was:
"Wow, that's great! I wish my daughter rooted for a team like that. The New England teams always win these days and I think she needs to cheer for a loser to build character."
Um, thanks? Prick.
I'm going to guess that your team is ....
Cleveland. Did I guess right? (If I'm wrong, my next guess is the Twins.)
Your second guess is correct
The Twins have won the Central six times in the past 10 years. Cleveland has only won it once. (Of course, this season is another story...)
WEEI The Main Sports Radio Station In Boston?
Did this "writer" actually refer to WEEI as the "main sports radio station in Boston"? You know, it's possible to get the latest radio-station ratings wherever you live, and WEEI is sinking like a souffle in a tsunami.
Not the main sports station?
They carry all of the Red Sox and Celtics games (except when they conflict), so to me, that makes them the city's primary sports station. The Pats and Bruins are on a different station, but their total number of games is obviously fewer (even in a year when the Bruins play 25 playoff games).
Ratings flip?
The ratings:
AQH% / Cume (Can someone translate what these mean?)
May 2011
WBZ-FM: 4.2 / 708,500
WEEI-AM: 3.6 / 624,400
WEEI-FM: 0.3 / 92,700
March 2011
WBZ-FM: 2.8 / 469,400
WEEI-AM: 3.1 / 400,400
WEEI-FM 0.2 / 62,600
Radio ratings! Fun for all!
Radio ratings and shares work very similarly to the Nielsen TV ratings system.
The AQH (Average Quarter Hour) rating takes the average number of people listening to the station (for at least five minutes) during a fifteen-minute block, and represents it as a percentage of the total population in the market.
The Cume (short for "cumulative") simply lists the total number of people who tuned in for at least five minutes during the entire time period measured.
Also, I went to Philadelphia a few weeks back and had no bad encounters with the locals, though when the cashier at a shop found out I was from Boston, she laughingly said "Don't say that too loudly! We're supposed to hate you guys." I think that tells a lot more about Gonzo, his attitudes and his city's attitudes than he could reveal in all his petty, baby tears.
(In the end we agreed not to hate each other over baseball since we're not in the same league and to hear the cashier tell it, they've been saving their AL hate for the Yankees since 2009 anyway. I'd believe her over this guy who just wants an excuse to play up a white collar/blue collar dichotomy by gleefully quoting, with pointy finger malice, some guy in Boston with a III at the end of his name.)
Bruins
I'd wait for the next book or two before declaring 98.5 the winner over WEEI. The Sports Hub no doubt had an overall spike due to Bruins coverage.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com