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Re: What Did You Say You'd Give For A Red Sox World Series Win? <FONT COLOR=BLACK><b>[</font>Reply to #<a href="read.pl?1-3267">3267</a>]</b>
4/28/06, 8:28am
>whoa, calm down down there. Seemed like a bit too much anger
>built up there. Let me guess...Royals fan? Bitter Astros' fan?
>Either way, I know you have no idea about the whole Yankee/Red
>Sox, Boston/New York thing because if you did you'd never had
>said some a ridiculous thing as "you just want to be Yankees".
>The fact is, yes there are more teams out there but here's the
>thing: they don't bring in the ratings, which is a shame for
>MLB. The White Sox/Astros WS was the worst rated WS in the
>past 20 yrs (or something along those lines). Sports in larger
>markets (Boston, NEw York, LA) will ALWAYS stand out more than
>those in smaller ones (Kansas City, Texas, Florida, etc) for
>two simple reasons: Media do fans. The media is smaller and
>the fans from the bigger markets are spread out throughout the
>country, spreading their excitement for their original
>hometown teams and thus creating a much larger market for them
>both media-wise and marketability-wise. For every fan that is
>sick and tired of hearing about a big market team, there's 3
>that aren't. 

According to his profile, he's from Texas and is a Yankees fan.

Given the nastiness spewed in the response, does that surprise you?



[redsoxchick from Boston/MA]
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