Posted by BoSoxDawg:
Posted: Today 12:27 PM
We have an unbelievable fanbase
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I hope that your children never play baseball at ANY level. High school, college or professional. You hear words that sailors dare not use. Papelbon is a free spirited person and used language that anyone associated with the baseball program (coaches and players) laughes off. We have up tight fans that can't have a word like "damn" be said in their presence. But they will go home and watch Lost on ABC and have it said 10 times while their kids sit next to them. I know how most of our fans are. I lose it sometimes and I might say, "Pass the damn ball, Rhodes" or something like that. Then the nasty looks come at me. Usually the person looking at me is 55+ in age and is wearing a hi-liter yellow shirt or some non-MSU color and has been oblivious to the bad sequence of plays on whatever field we are watching, but can pick my voice out of 11,000 or 55,000 people in attendance. But what some of you don't understand is that Papelbon is the biggest thing in pro sports that MSU has right now. He is a god in Boston. Yet, he takes the time to come to MSU events and be in front of the public on campus. I commend him for that. If you want to "*****" about something, "*****" about how 3,000 of our fans (some on this board) wont get rid of their tickets to a football game or basketball game when many people want to attend. They aren't electronically educated well enough to use Stub-Hub, yet their are eloquent Gene's Page Shakespeares. But if Jerious Norwood came to homecoming and stood on the 50 yard line and said let's win this damn football game for the maroon and white, 55,000 would stand as if we had just received a Sugar Bowl bid. If you want to complain about something, complain about how fickle our fanbase is and try to do something about it. Don't worry about what our "rock star status" baseball player says in front of 300 people as he tries to win his second world title. People please.
GO DAWGS!!!
Posted: Today 12:27 PM
We have an unbelievable fanbase
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I hope that your children never play baseball at ANY level. High school, college or professional. You hear words that sailors dare not use. Papelbon is a free spirited person and used language that anyone associated with the baseball program (coaches and players) laughes off. We have up tight fans that can't have a word like "damn" be said in their presence. But they will go home and watch Lost on ABC and have it said 10 times while their kids sit next to them. I know how most of our fans are. I lose it sometimes and I might say, "Pass the damn ball, Rhodes" or something like that. Then the nasty looks come at me. Usually the person looking at me is 55+ in age and is wearing a hi-liter yellow shirt or some non-MSU color and has been oblivious to the bad sequence of plays on whatever field we are watching, but can pick my voice out of 11,000 or 55,000 people in attendance. But what some of you don't understand is that Papelbon is the biggest thing in pro sports that MSU has right now. He is a god in Boston. Yet, he takes the time to come to MSU events and be in front of the public on campus. I commend him for that. If you want to "*****" about something, "*****" about how 3,000 of our fans (some on this board) wont get rid of their tickets to a football game or basketball game when many people want to attend. They aren't electronically educated well enough to use Stub-Hub, yet their are eloquent Gene's Page Shakespeares. But if Jerious Norwood came to homecoming and stood on the 50 yard line and said let's win this damn football game for the maroon and white, 55,000 would stand as if we had just received a Sugar Bowl bid. If you want to complain about something, complain about how fickle our fanbase is and try to do something about it. Don't worry about what our "rock star status" baseball player says in front of 300 people as he tries to win his second world title. People please.
GO DAWGS!!!
