Red Sox 'Truck Day' is Feb. 6

Being away from Boston for five years and seeing how people get so wrapped up in a truck leaving really shows how people in Boston have no lives at all. People there live their entire life through that baseball team. I used to think it was cool how much people in New England were into the Red Sox, but now I just think it's pathetic.

You Andrew , must live in a place that dosent care about sports or your team sucks so bad that your jealous of the Sox or Yanks etc...

is it really pathetic andrew? why the hell are you here reading that article then? ive been out of boston for 3 years now living in san diego and hearing that truck left fenway still makes me excited. it means baseball is about to start and thats great. it makes me happy, i love the summer, i love the memories that are associated with red sox baseball, and i love the competition between my team and others. its not any different then people out here being obsessed with the waves and going surfing. people are just different. deal with it. youre wicked pathetic for coming on here and taking the energy and effort to put people down for getting excited about the beginning of a great sport thats about to begin again. there ya go andrew. have a great day :)

Then why are you reading about something as "pathetic" as truck day?

Yet you took the time to either read or just click on the article to post that comment.

Truck Day ? Are you serious ? Get a life.

I've anticipated the South pointing truck as a rite of Spring since the day I left New England (how else do you the change of seasons living in in CA?). I just moved back after 9 years, and I'll tell ya' - It's not just the Sox (that doesn't really kick in 'til June anyhow)... it's the thought of Spring, and a warm breeze, and no more snow (except up north) ...and what the team just might do this year...

...excitement...

Wow Andrew.....5 years away from Boston and still nothing better to do in life than comment on what the people of New England do. Now THAT's pathetic for ya.....

Love this item Globe! Keep it up!

Posted by Andrew;
"but now I just think it's pathetic....
Hope you are enjoying your new resdence; Alabama? Kentucky? Florida? All those other places with great " culture" !

No Andrew, you are pathetic.

Boston is a baseball town, always has been always will be. Truck Day is a sign than Spring is around the corner and a new baseball season is gearing up. Don't like it? Tough, deal with it and please don't come back!

I've lived my whole life in New England and I think your grossly overstating the situation. Most people don't live their lives through the Red Sox. Their are a small percentage of fans that go overboard in their fandam, but the majority look at baseball and the Red Sox for what it is. A nice passtime and something to look forward to.

Now I just think Andrew is pathetic. If someone clicked on this link they wanted to read the story and not your whining. Who cares man? Do you really want a list of things I think are dumb that other people like? And I don't want one from you. There's a saying about not having something nice to say but I can't remember how it ends, maybe with a smack upside the head.

The CAPTAIN should be on that truck; with his declining abilities, he's only worth a bag of batting practice baseballs.

Hey Andrew: If you think it's pathetic, why are you reading the articles. After all, you've been away for five years.

Hey Andrew...some people like baseball. If you can't say anything nice, then shut your grill-piece. The truck leaving transcends baseball, and is symbolic of the changing of the seasons, and as a feeling of hope throughout the summer. While I'm sharing a beer with my dad out in the bleachers, I'll think about you and how "pathetic" you are. Have a great summer!

Andrew: Being away from Boston for five years must have softened your brain. We don't live our life *through* the Red Sox but baseball is tightly intertwined with our whole experience of the seasons of the year. All winter long we've been hunkered down, shoveling out, living in the dark. Baseball isn't just a team or a sport, it also represents the beginning of warmer weather, longer days, summer nights with the game on the radio and a breeze in the windows. Having the Red Sox be such a part of life from April to October is why one starts getting excited in February when they see that truck leaving for Spring Training.

I would like to know approximately when the trucks would come through South Carolina? That way my family, (the girls were born into it), could go cheer on the team trucks.

Andrew, I read your comment with great interest. While you refer to Red Sox fans as "pathetic," what does it say about you who took the time to read this article and then write your pitiful response. May it's YOU who needs to get a life! Maybe you haven't heard about the success of the Patriots, Celtics or Bruins in the time you have been "away." Apparently you didn't live here long enough to understand that the departure of the truck is a harbenger of the start of spring training and the changing of the season. This is especially symbolic after the long, cold winter we have had this year! Many New Englanders look forward to the February vacation week and the opportunity to go to Fort Meyers and enjoy the sun, beaches and Sox games. You didn't mention whether or not you are back in the region or living somewhere else. If you are still living somewhere else "be cool" and do yourself (and us) a favor - stay there!

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Hey Andrew,
Your a wannabe Boston Fan. I bet you grew up in CT, NY or NJ went to BC and then think you are automatically a Sox fan. Well guess what, youre not, you never were and you never will be. You are probably some phony business man who tries to talk in the Boston accent when you meet someone from Boston in a bar.
So Andrew, go root for the bandwagon this year and when the Sox go back to the playoffs dont whip out your old BC hat and sox sweatshirt. Youre pathetic!

andrew, we think you're pathetic

I think you're just jealous. Truck Day rocks.

Wow ... sure taking a beating aren't you Andrew .....

Someone once said that there are no true Patriot, Celtic or Bruin fans, just Sox fans waiting out the winter - Go Truck Day!

well, all these follow up comments just prove that Andrew is absolutely correct!! get a life people!!

Truck Day is obviously an important day in a small corner of a sub culture that subsists by subsidizing the myth that their Sox are playing the game for them. One must feel the need to subsidize such fantasy in order to justified such inflated values of time and money that is invested in such blind loyalty to corporate sports, as represented by the corporate Red Sox Nation, a subsidiary of the global entertainment market. Oh yes, and congratulations on becoming what you hated most in the New York Yankees. Dream on baby and good luck this season. .

wow people all of you get a life!!!!!

After my retirement i moved to S.C. Its been three years but thanks to internet & M.L.B. on T.V. i still watch redsox & keep uodated myself with all the activities, news etc about redsox . Once you are a redsox fan you are always redsox fan. LETS GO SOX 2009.

I think Truck Day should be a holiday and it deserves extensive media coverage, much like the inauguration. I don't understand the belief that one must be born in Boston or NE to be a "true " Red Sox fan. Many of us simply understand what a unique treasure Boston has in the Sox. Despising the Yankees helps, too!

Hey "Bostons (sic) Real Fan",
Speaking as someone who is a born and raised in CT Sox fan who has probably been rooting for them longer than you've been alive (dim memories of '67), you have nothing on many of us Nutmeg Staters who root for the Sox. We take great pride in living in a "Battleground State", staving off the influence of the Evil Empire that is predominant only in Fairfield County due to its proximity to New York. You sound like someone who has never been to Hartford, New London, or most any north or east section of the state that has always been Sox country. So stop disparaging the state where Red Sox Nation meets the enemy head-on.

Andrew, you're that pathetic one!

ANDRREW YOU POOR DEPRIVED BOY,I AM 45 ,I MOVED 17 YEARS AGO TO LONG ISLAND. BUT MY HEART WILL ALLWAYS BE WITH THE SOX. TRUCK DAY MEANS ANOTHER SEASON OF BASEBALL AND ANOTHER CHANCE TO WIN IT ALL.iTS ASHAME YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND REDSOX NATION.

Have you turned to be a skankee fan Andrew? Maybe this is why you are so pathetic now.

You've all hit the nail on the head. Andrew was obviously never a sox fan to begin with...
Hope the warm weather makes it to you guys early this year!

Andrew Rules!! Who cares about the truck for this pathetic team....they will be golfing in November.

Andrew,

Not sure why you found it necessary to post your umm, "thoughts'" here. I think truck day is great (and I live in Texas!). Love the Sox.

A line from one of the Beatles songs comes to mind about people like Andrew. went something like "Life goes on within you and Without you"...

Go Sox!

I moved down from Boston to Florida and I can't wait for the truck to come down here. I just hope that when it makes it through Tampa it can take out some of these stupid frontrunning Rays fans. Andrew is probably one of them!

"Truck Day" is no dumber than winter solstice, or Groundhog Day, or Easter. Ceremonially saluting the return of spring and the renewal of life is seminally important in any northern hemisphere culture, ancient or modern.

Hey, *Globe*! How about placing an embed on that equipment truck and liveblogging all the way down I-95? Even though I'm a Cactus League partisan hoping to lure the Sox back here to Arizona for the first time in four decades, I'd read those dispatches with pleasure.

Andrew and the NJ Meathook no longer exist in time or space as they have been wiped off Red Sox Nation's collective backside and flushed down the toilet to their much-deserved fate.

Truck Day is iconic to those who love baseball. It is a sign of banishment of winter, the approach of warm weather and the American Pastime.

I love the internet tough guys. Who want to act so tough over the WWW but in real life would they ever say what they say.

Andrew enjoy being a yankmee fan this season...With injuries to jeter,damon,jorge,a-*ole,rivera,Wang wung, Its going to be a long season for you...Whats CC's record against the sox...Can AJ stay healthy?

NJ..wow when those fans try to talk trash we have to let them talk.. because they are the "rain men" of sports fans...

Hey, Punxsutawney has Phil. Boston has "The Truck."

Both predict the arrival of spring in about 6 weeks.

Right on Andrew. There is more to life than living someone else's dream. Besides, there are three other teams in town, 2 of which that are in 1st place and deserve more print than a truck full of equipment. This is just another way for Henry to prey on Red Sox Nation...
It's January - Go Celtics and Bruins

Hey Marv,

I think I've been through CT on my way to somewhere else. CT is a drive through state and all i know about it is the phony businessmen like Andrew who live in Greenwich and Fairfield and think there sh*t doesnt stink. You may live in the other area of CT but still its CT so relax about your Sox nation nonsense, you wish you lived in Boston.
See you at Fenway, enjoy your long ride to the game.

the Red Sox Web sight should have a gps device on the truck and a eastern U.S. map on it.
thenlocate the truck ALL the way to Ft. Myers, Fla

Yay...It's almost Truck Day! Let's make sure that Andrew is under it =O}

Andrew... get a cup of joe and listen... I've not lived in MA for 31 years now but... every year I will always follow the Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, and Patriots it keeps me young and reminds me of a game I once saw at Fenway Minnesota won on that day but hey... Ray Culp was pitching!! I know you're asking yourself, who's Ray Culp... if you loved the sox you'd know.

Shoot
I'm a Yankee fan and even I'm excited about the truck leavin.
Who needs the Devil Rays anyway.
Almost time to mix it up again.
Beckett vs Arod
Marino vs Big Daddy.
Can I bring up Texeria yet ? Or is it still to sensitive.
The new firast baseman guy, what's his name , verses Papelbon.
Just the thought helps melt the snow.
Get a life Andrew.

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Gotta love "Yankee07840." That's what the greatest rivalry in sports is all about. "About time to mix it up again." Word.

If you don't care or don't like the Sox, what the hell are you doing reading that far down on the sports page? If you read that far into the page, you either care greatly about the Sox, or you have no life at all. Next time you want to read something you don't care about and then make stupid statements, please make it the NY Post

Let's mix it up again. Get that truck rollin!

does anyone know what time one the 6th the truck will be leaving?
i have classes mid-day but would love to go down to fenway and see it.

Since Mark Twain, America loves "road" stories. With so many jobs lost,
ice storms and tight budgets, we are ON that Red Sox truck. We need to be.
-Al, born in the year of the Gas House Gang.

Andrew is a loser!!

What time does the truck head out??