It's Perfectly Acceptable To "Fucking Hate" Philadelphia, Just As Long As You Love It
Todd Kirkland. Getty Images.The big "story" last night was when Alec Bohm was caught saying "I fucking hate this place" after getting sarcastically cheered for by Phillies fans. It was a rough night in the field for Bohm, the emotions were high, and he openly admitted that they got the best of him.
He owned it, we move on. Great work by Alec Bohm of being one of the very few professional athletes in the world who isn't afraid to act like an actual human being at times and admit when they do or say things they don't necessarily wish they did at the time.
But this brings me on to a bigger point. The city of Philadelphia is a proud city. We're also a tense city. One that constantly feels like we're on the defensive. It's always Philly vs the World. So the moment anybody ever says anything bad about the city, it's like we're all ready to go to war. And I love that about us, don't get me wrong. It's just…what if…well what if it was okay to sometimes say that you hate the shit out of Philadelphia? Just as long as at the end of the day, you love it.
It's kind of the same thing as how nobody else can bully your little brother but you. Like if you actually love Philly, always have and always will? I think it's perfectly acceptable to hate the place sometimes. For example, I hate the shit out of Philly for the fact that you go down to South Philly and you can park in the middle of the street for all they care, but you head over to Old City and you need a college dissertation to figure out the exact 15 minutes you can park in a spot only on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays or else you're getting a ticket. Really I just fucking hate this place for PPA in general. I fucking hate this place anytime some restaurant outside of Philadelphia puts a cheesesteak on their menu and the entire city rushes over to bitch and complain about how it's not an actual cheesesteak and how anybody who puts green peppers on a cheesesteak should get their ass kicked. Speaking of getting their ass kicked, I fucking hate this place when Eagles fans decide they want to fight Mike Scott in the parking lot just because he's wearing an R-words jersey. Not to get political but I fucking hate this place when the piece of shit mayor decides that Philly should be the only city in America to return to the mask policies. I fucking hate this place when the bottom of my shoes are covered in piss every time I head into the Fairmount BSL station. I fucking hate this place for 76 traffic. But at the end of the day, I love the shit out of Philly until the day I die (most likely from blowing my brains out sitting in 76 traffic).
The moral of the story is maybe we, as a city, could benefit from just taking a few deep breaths whenever people say something they hate about Philly before we go on an all out retaliation. Maybe we hate to make sure if that person actually hates Philly first, or they're just saying some nonsense out of frustration. You should be allowed to hate a little, as long as you love a lot.