Saturday, November 3, 2007

Hey Boston, can you spare some change?

This is a plea to any and all of the good fortune that the city of Boston, and ALL of it's sports teams are currently experiencing. I am the homeless guy that is standing outside of the bar on Saturday night begging for money, and Boston is the drunk basketball player who just got hammered for free and is about to go home and have sex with the flexible cheerleader. Boston, I beg you, please spare some change. Boston fans would like you to believe that they are only experiencing the karmatic results of decades of devout suffering, but don't believe that for a second. True, the Red Sox didn't win a World Series for over 80 years, the Patriots struggled in the 80's and most of the 90's, and the Celtics haven't been good for 20 years, but you have to realize that most of these things didn't over lap. While the Sox were on the schnide for 8 straight decades, the Celtics were busy winning 17 NBA Championships. When the Celtics got bad, the Patriots stepped up and won three Super Bowls in four years. When the Pats seemed like they were gonna cool off, the Sox finally got their World Series. And at any given time, if any of the big three were struggling, those chowder heads could always turn to the Bruins who have won 5 Stanley Cups, or any of there college teams that are always good at something. My point is that it has always been easy to be a sports fan in Boston, because even when one of your teams was struggling, you had another one to turn to. But now, it has gotten ridiculous. While we are at one of our lowest points as a sports city, Boston is getting as lucky as Shaun Alexander in a dick tree. Let's take a sport by sport look at Boston's blessings and Seattle's suckiness.

Baseball-
Although I am pretty happy with the off season coaching additions that the M's have made so far, Larry Bowa, Mel Stoudelmire, etc., Boston is coming off of it's second world series in four years. No more complaining about the "curse". Let's talk about our curse, the curse of existing. We are one of four teams that have never played in the world series, along with Tampa Bay, Milwaukee, and Washington. We've only been around for 32 years, and I know 32 is less than 86, but never is more than 86. We have 1995 and 2001 and that's it. Baseball misery: advantage Seattle.

Pro Football-
The Patriots are the best team in football, possibly the best team ever assembled, they might go undefeated, they have the coolest receiver, the best looking and most bad ass QB, and a coach that has a taste for blood. We are pretty mediocre. We kicked 6 field goals against St. Louis, who is the worst team in football. We have a bunch of number 2 receivers, a bald quarter back, a running back that...isn't good*, and a coach that has a taste for donuts. Just as in baseball, our city has zero championships in this sport. Football misery: advantage Seattle.

*I am no longer going to spend my time, or yours, writing about Shaun Alexander. He is awful. We all know it. 2005 was a great year, but a lot of that credit goes to the O-Line, possibly the best ever. Now Walt is old, and Hutch is making another running back very very happy - Adrian Peterson. Alexander is a waste of time, money, and space, and I am done with him. I hope he builds a tree house in that dick tree we talked about earlier, and leaves all of us alone.

Basketball-
What can I say. The Celts have our best player from last year, and he is the third best player on their team. I hope everybody watched the Celtics play on Friday night, because they are for real. KG is great. We already knew that, but now that he is in a great sports city, with great players, he is on another level. As for us, we have been pretty exciting. "Wonderboy" Durant has been totally amazing, and "Young Nasty Man" Green has been pretty good too. But that's not the point. Clay Bennett officially filed his relocation papers on Friday, and made it public (as if we didn't already know) that he plans on moving the team to Oklahoma City. David Stern said we "have no heart" as a basketball city. I'll have a blog dedicated to this whole cluster in couple of days, as for now, it's pretty fair to say that we are more miserable than any other basketball city in the country. Save our Sonics. Advantage no one.

So, like I said, I am the homeless guy in the rain, and Boston is sipping champagne in the penthouse sweet with it's hot girlfriend. Are we doomed to a life of Richard's Wild Irish Rose and masturbating in a card board box, thinking about Super Bowl rings and World Series'? None of my favorite pro teams have won a championship in my lifetime. To make matters worse, the only titles we have in the past 30 years are bunch of Sounders A-League Championships, and the Storm. That's not a consolation, it's paint balls filled with salt, being shot at our already painful wounds. Cleveland feels our pain, so does Philadelphia. Come on Boston, don't be a dick, spare some change.

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