Yes, let's hear it for Detroit, there's no sickos there, just an inordinate rate of murders and other violent crimes.

If there is any team I detest as much as NY, it has to be SF. Growing up a Dodger fan the Dodger-Giant rivalry was as intense as the NY-Boston is. However, they had some great players; Mays, McCovey, Cepeda, the Alou brothers, Jim Davenport, Harvey Kueen. It's not as it once was but still can't stand them. Perhaps it was because of Bonds or maybe Pelosi. Or maybe it's just because there are bunch of wackos living out there.

When they showed Brian Wilson with his beard and red fingernail polish, acting like a complete idiot in the BP, I thought, Yup, this is SF all right. The land of the loon!

I hope Detroit can get their act together.

In response to Hfxsoxnut's comment:

Thank You for your post as I did not want to bash Detroit.  The real "sicko" is the person who started this discussion. We are all Americans and there are unique types everywhere so the terms "sickos & wackos" is uncalled for. The only thing that he made sense about is that I am not a Pelosi & Feinstein fan.

Let me tell you that when the Celtics play the Lakers, 90% of the sports bars here root for Boston. Our 49ers too have been beaten by the NY Giants the past 2 years as have the Pats in their last 2 SB meetings. LA, yes, is a bit different with Hollywood Blvd and Transvestites, Hookers, Vagabonds etc. RE: SF Giants. I sure wish the Sox had their pitching. The Cardinals scored 1 run in last 3 games(20 to1 Giants) and last night at least Detroit got 3 runs. And how can you not be happy for the Sox alumnus, Marco Scutaro...I wish we still had him to play short now that Aviles is traded and Iglesias a great fielder but hitting still weak.

I am first a Boston teams fan as I spent my first 21 years in Maine before USMC( Camp Pendleton) called me away---roots run deep---but also a local team fan.

One of  the reasons I  love SF(the west coast Bay Area) been here 45 years---is that it is very similar to Boston, a nice quaint town, with hills & a Bay and is a great walking city like Boston.  Naturally, we have seafood too but I'm still partial to the littleneck clams, scrod, haddock, lobster etc. & love returning to Mass, N.H. & Maine to visit family & friends & also go to Fenway a couple of times per year.

In response to SFBostonFan's comment:

I think being a native Californian qualifies me to speak ill of my home state. Beautiful place that has become overtaken by fruits and nuts. Another reason I don't care for SF is their treatment of the military. Voting to ban ROTC from the schools, refusing the Marine Corp permission to make a recruitment video. The city is anti-military.

Yes, let's hear it for Detroit, there's no sickos there, just an inordinate rate of murders and other violent crimes.

In response to Alibiike's comment:

To each their own.  

GO GIGANTES!!!!!

If there is any team I detest as much as NY, it has to be SF. Growing up a Dodger fan the Dodger-Giant rivalry was as intense as the NY-Boston is. However, they had some great players; Mays, McCovey, Cepeda, the Alou brothers, Jim Davenport, Harvey Kueen. It's not as it once was but still can't stand them. Perhaps it was because of Bonds or maybe Pelosi. Or maybe it's just because there are bunch of wackos living out there.

When they showed Brian Wilson with his beard and red fingernail polish, acting like a complete idiot in the BP, I thought, Yup, this is SF all right. The land of the loon!

I hope Detroit can get their act together.

In response to SFBostonFan's comment:

I think being a native Californian qualifies me to speak ill of my home state. Beautiful place that has become overtaken by fruits and nuts. Another reason I don't care for SF is their treatment of the military. Voting to ban ROTC from the schools, refusing the Marine Corp permission to make a recruitment video. The city is anti-military.

Alibi Ike is a Dodger and has admitted it. He is here to bug Sox fans and admits that also.

In response to Yonkersman's comment:

I'm a Californian too Ike---lived here for 58 years, having moved from Queens before I turned 14. Talk about the Giants-Dodgers rivalry, you had to live in New York to see if for yourself. I'm not kidding, the old East Coast rivalry was even more intense than Red Sox-Yankees, as hard as that is to believe. There were fights in the stands, outside the park, in the subway, and in the neighborhoods. Strange how things turned out. When the Dodgers left Brooklyn and announced they were moving out to my new surroundings I was t hrilled---until I heard that O'Malley was adamant they be no longer referred to as the "Bum", that they would play their games in that ridiculous Coliseum which was only good for making clay, and that their plan was to become the "West Coast" Yankees. From that moment on I despised them. Well at least I'm consistent....I hate both the Giants and the Dodgers and wish them nothing but ill will.

So how does a person who spent 58 years in California after being a Dodger fan in Queens for 14 years, end up being a Red Sox fan? Did someone in your family influence you? Did you happen to hear WTIC through the static when you were ten years old and become a lifetime fan? Did Dizzy Dean who did three Sox games per year influence you? Seems very strange on how you can be a rabid Sox fan. Have you ever eaten clam chowder, lobsters, or steamers? You forgot to tell us why you are a genuine Red Sox fan. I raise these questions because you never gave the slightest hint that you are a Red Sox fan. Your rhetoric sounds more like you hate the Red Sox. However never judge a book by its cover.

In response to Calzone65's comment:

No hint that I am a Red Sox fan?  I live and die with them in ways  that you cannot imagine as some of my friends from other boards who post here could tell you. As for the dieing part, it has been arranged that when the Good Lord calls me home I will be interned in a Red Sox casket.  As a newly minted 72 year old today I'm probably one of the few men my age, if any, that has a complete Red Sox room in his house and that unless my wife is cleaning it, no one goes in there without my ok. Strange that I am a Red Sox fan?  Well my wife thinks I'm a pretty strange guy.  Here's how it came about.  From 1958 to 2000 I tried this team and that team, usually rooting for the team that had the same name as the team I was coaching.....Giants, Phillies, Indians, Mets, Astros.  Just fooling myself......until August 19, 2000 on my final leg of a Sports Travel Tour Baseball trip that ended in Fenway Park.

I saw Pedro Martinez pitch seven near perfect innings against the Royals that day in a 9-0 romp and called my wife that night and said I finally found my team.  When I got home she didn't even g o into "I've heard this routine before" because within two days she brought me two Red Sox tee shirts, totally convinced that I had found Nirvana.  No I do not hate the Red Sox.  I get angry at them, furious at the front office and can get critical----because I love that team with all my heart, as corny as that seems.  And, BTW, I got my best birthday present ever on October 27, 2004 when the Red Sox ended 86 years of futility and won the World Series.  I happened to be in New York on that day and don't think the Yankees didn't hear it.  KIND OF WINDED ON MY PART BUT AT LEAST NOW YOU AND OTHER DOUBTING THOMASES NOW KNOW WHERE I STAND.  Thanks for the message.