Somebody sent me a link to an article that Jim Caple wrote on ESPN.com a couple weeks ago entitled “Shut Up Red Sox Nation” Here is an excerpt from it;

"While Yankees fans momentarily are neutralized by their recent embarrassing autumns and their current spot in the standings, Red Sox fans, sadly, have taken over the mantle as the most obnoxious fans in sports.I say this as a former Red Sox fan. I spent a good chunk of my teens and early adulthood hating the Yankees and rooting for the Red Sox. I wandered into the rainy streets in stunned silence after the Bill Buckner play in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. I went into my room, closed the door, and fell weeping onto my bed during Game 7 that year. (Mind you, I was 24 at the time and I was crying while there still were two innings left to play.) But Boston fans were different then. They were the tragically loyal fans who always went home disappointed in the end. You might have gotten tired of our whining, but at least we weren't constantly in your face with it. No longer. As soon as the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series, Boston fans took on a swaggering, entitled persona, acting as if they alone invented sports fandom and behaving as if nothing else in baseball mattered but them...

I would say that Red Sox fans need a humbling collapse -- say, blowing a Fourteen game lead in the standings or a 3-0 lead in the ALCS -- but then we would just have to listen to them moan about that for another couple decades. "

Now here is my problem with this article.  It’s not the fact that he wishes ill will against the Red Sox.  It’s not even that he says Sox fans are obnoxious.   Because I’ll readily admit there are lots of bandwagon fans out there and we have our fair share of obnoxious fans just like everybody else.  BUT do me a favor Caple and don’t pretend that you were some die hard Red Sox fan growing up.  That’s a bunch of bullshit.   Because it’s fucking asinine to claim that you cried when we lost in 86 ,but stopped being a fan after we finally won a World Series and now root for a titanic collapse.  Like I said, I have no problem with people hating us, but just don’t try and pretend that you were ever one of us because you weren’t.        So do me a favor and go claim to be a die hard Cubs until they win something and then write an article about how you cried when Bartman caught that foul ball, but now everything has changed with them.   Because obviously you’re a fraud and any idiot can see that. 

PS - And by the way don’t fucking write a book with Steve Buckley about what every diehard Boston fan should know.  Because you’re the last guy that should be talking Boston Sports.    I hope somebody punches you in the kidneys next time you go to Fenway and try to act like a Red Sox fan.  I’ve seen your kind before.  They make me sick.