I think Jim Calhoun would agree with me when I say my best advice to you? Shut up.
Mo got a huge standing O when he came back and it lasted longer than your standard Standing O. I remember watching it on TV, it was a huge event. The ovation probably lasted for 1-2 minutes...the game was of those days that are circled on the calendar before the season starts.
Now does that mean 100.0% were all cheering (is that even possible in any city when a big star leaves a town over money issues while he's still very good?), but if your plan is to point to the small number of people who may have booed and call out an entire fanbase by saying "Vaughn the Hero was booed his first at bat" and trying to insinuate that "THE FANS STEAMROLLED HIM OUT OF TOWN!", well then you're just as big a clown as your boy Mau. He gets pissed cuz I call him out on blatant lies and misreprensentations. If I'm remembering wrong, show me proof. Find me some article or link out there that states Mo couldn't believe how vindictive the fans were and that he'll never look at Boston the same. Find some Shaughnessy article in the globe archives talking about it.. He lives to write about stuff like that....Vaughn's return was nothing like Damon's return. Give me a break.
And for the third time, Sox fans didn't steamroll Pedro out of Boston. You really think most Sox fans were running around telling NY fans thank god this Diva isn't pitching for us anymore? You're hilarious. Some fans wanted Boston to give him a blank check..some wanted them to stop at 3 years due to his decline in performance, velocity, etc. I was at Fenway the night before Pedro pitched for the Mets vs. us. He was sitting at the top of the Mets dugout at the farthest end from home plate. Between one of the innings the camera puts him on the main scoreboard and the place goes nuts for probably a good five minutes. Go on youtube and see what his reaction was the next night when he had to pitch and was just walking from the dugout to the bullpen for warmups. He's a god in Boston.
Have some splits been messy, yes. Clemens and Nomar for different reasons. But Pedro and Vaughn, give me a break. And as I said before, I love Ray as a UConn and Celtics fan and the C's fans loved everything he gave during his time here. But NY fans just haven't experienced a situation that is similar to Ray going to the Heat, so don't tell us how we "should act" compared to how NY fans would act. Find me a NY situation that was similar and I'm all ears like I said before.[/quote
You have never called me out for "blatant lies" a**wipe! As I mentioned in apost on the baseball board we all have opinions, that's what it is all about. You take yourself way too seriously and have proved to know very little about anything and to be just another Red Sox Nation pu**y! I am not always right but I do express opinion and most of those can be taken one way or the other, depends on the person, the fan and the application we discuss right? But you just need to always stress how smart you are and you know everything....that's why you have succeeded in being the biggest dope in Boneyard history.. relax, have some fun or else just know, NO ONE likes you!
