Showing posts with label boston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boston. Show all posts

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Haute Takes



Likes: Starbucks Pumpkin Coffee, Uggz, Barre Class, Pilates ,BRUINS hockey and FENWAY

And thus reads the FB page of every female age 16-35.  And so well encapsulates why both the Sox and Bruins organizations are in a tail spin.

Look I'm not a hockey guy. Growing up that was a your parents aren't divorced sport. And goddam if my parents were getting up at 5am

Nor am I baseball guy. Sure I played till high school but generally those who were blind until age 4 have sucky eye hand coordination. So, I grew to hate it.

What I am though is a blogger with a ferocious appetite for truth.  Look I'm not saying there are no true sox and Bruins fans out there. There sure are. The guy still keeping score himself at the sox. A fan. The guy who managed to keep his sanity during 90s bruin hockey. A fan.

But here's my haute take. GENERALLY THE HEALTH OF  A SPORTS ORGINAZATION IS LINKED TO ITS NUMBER OF FEMALE FANS.

Look I'm a modern man. Not a feminist but not mysoginist either. But look the higher number of female fans a team has in Boston the less true fans you'll find. 

Notice pre 2004. You went to Fenway was it a complete sausage fest. No but, it still somewhat resembled what other baseball stadiums resemble elsewhere in the country. Then whamo 04 World Series happens. Sox are hot. And like the Swallows of Capistrano the "Pink Hats" flood in. And conversely scumbag Henry and crew are there to take their money. And now Fenway is just a shitty stadium where baseball is a second thought and a bachelorette party destination.

Roughly the same occurred to the Bruins. For years Bruins games where the Mecca for Malden Youth Hockey Coaches with a drinking problem and other unsavory elements. Bruins win the cup and again the Hats come flying and again there's an even scummier ownership group there to poach the shekels of the female element. 

In summary the Circus state of each organization can be attributed to this. once the Pink Hats emerge, much like  when a lion sees a deer , the scumbag ownership groups of both organizations can't help themselves  and become less concerned with the quality of the product. Suddenly their #1 concern is gouging the single 27 year old nurse from Braintree and her friends at a game. They're willing to transform a hockey/baseball game into an overpriced circus just to cater to them. 

And you can't fault the ownership. There billionaires, they made billions because they love money. So they can't say no when a pack of girls want to hear sweet Caroline as long as they are paying 10 bucks a beer.

The fault lies totally with the bandwagon jumping New England Pink Hat. Your willingness to shell over 10 bucks for beer and worse attend concerts at there shitty venue (Red Sox) has essentially killed not one but 2 sports organizations.

So take note nationals and Orioles fans a little bit of success may be your nail in the coffin too.The minute you see your first bachelorette party at a game it's probably too late.



Thursday, April 12, 2012

A few good reasons to...

Booze this weekend:

1. The Bruins playoffs start tonight at the Garden. Game 1 vs the Caps. I hope Ovechkin goes home crying.
2. The Boston Beer Summit.
3. Red Sox kick off the home opener and probably one of many 100 year celebrations  on Friday.
4. Bruins playoff game 2 at 3:00 on Saturday.
5. If you are into soccer the NE Revolution are playing the DC United.
6. Sunday it is supposed to be nice so rest up.
7. One of my favorite drinking days of the year - Marathon Monday. Sox game starts at 11:00 am so the beers start at 9.

That's a quick 7 pack of reasons to get ya drank on.

The reason I am posting this today is because my weekend starts at 3:00. If you are around Fenway I'll be at the Baseball Tavern before the game tomorrow and Monday. Saturday I'll be kicking it at the North Star before the Bruins game with MikeyT and Rio (and his mystery guest). As always shots are encouraged, drinks are recommended and beers are a must!

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Son Of A Bitch

I know you Bastards knew about this and said nothing to me. Now I have to sign up for Facebook which I had no intention on ever doing.

Eagles Fans Roll Deep in Boston
This Eagles fan report comes to us from James Conroy.

Can you imagine a group of 75 or more Browns fans, or Dolphins fans or Lions fans gathering at a bar in South Philly to watch their team each week? It wouldn't happen. Yet in the shadow of Fenway Park, dozens of Eagles fans who live throughout the Boston area meet up to cheer on the Birds each week and take over a bar.
I moved to Boston the day after the Phillies World Series parade - a pretty good sendoff. After never really living that far away from the Philly area, I was a little concerned that my time in Boston would have me watching Patriots games and missing out on my Philadelphia sports. But, with the wonderfulness that is the internets, I was able to find a group of Philadelphia expatriates who get together weekly to watch the Birds.
For the last two years, as many as 200 Philadelphia Eagles fans have gathered at An Tua Nua, an Irish pub just blocks from Fenway, to watch games on two big screens and celebrate their love of the Eagles without having to deal with the annoyances of opposing team's fans.
Although people have said that there are other Eagles fans who meet up at bars around the Boston area (like Champions), it appears the crowd at An Tua Nua are the only ones who take over an entire room and get food and drink specials all to themselves.
David Quinn, who is essentially the head of the group, said that for game one this year against the Rams, over 160 people turned up and the group was able to raise more than $140 for the Eagles' "Tackling Breast Cancer" fund and have raised close to $800 as of yesterday.


And from what I could tell yesterday, the bar loved the fact that Birds fans show up there every week. When I asked the bartender if she was concerned about Eagles fans bad behavior which is promoted by the media, she didn't know anything about it and said all the fans at An Tua Nua were great.
With close to 200 members on "Philadelphia Eagles Fans of Boston" Facebook group, they've proven that basically anywhere you go you're bound to run into Eagles fans. I mean, about five years ago I'm in St. Lucia on vacation wearing a Eagles t-shirt and a guy stops me to find out the score of the game the previous week because "these bastards were watching soccer."
And, unlike Eagles players, everyone at Au Tua Nua knew that a game that ends 13-13 after overtime is called a tie.