i try not to use my blog as a forum for my personal soapbox issues, so please forgive this self-indulgent tangent. this is something i've needed to get off my chest for a while.
i spent the first 27.5 years of my life living in the western half of the united states. i have watched a lot of sports, listened to way too much sports talk radio, and read thousands upon thousands of sports related articles. when we play trivia i get almost every sports question right (and almost every other question wrong). and for 27.5 years i have seen, read, and listened to various commentators rip the west coast for having uninformed, uninterested, and, most offensively, BAD fans.
when i knew i was moving to boston i was excited because, finally, i would be able to experience this magical place where sports fans walked on water. i will say this: boston fans are passionate. but i have heard the most inane sports banter possible in this town. west coast fans may have more divided interests but they have nothing on east coasters for pure ridiculousness. furthermore, just because the lakers have movie stars in the front row of their games doesn't mean ALL fans in california (or elsewhere in the west) come late and leave early and can't tell you where ray allen went to college (uconn, look it up).
anyway, this is part defensiveness, but also (mostly) disappointment: come on east coast fans, i should never have bought in to the hype.
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