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Red Sox mob beats up Yankees fan in Cambridge

Wow!...The Whitey Ford Bulgers are wilding early this year!

The official start to the 2008 baseball season is about a month away, but the age-old rivalry between the Yankees and Red Sox is already getting ugly.

A group of men — some with Irish accents — beat up a 23-year-old Cambridge man and sent him to the hospital after they spotted him sporting a Yankees baseball cap.

Witnesses told police the group of apparent diehard Red Sox fans beat up the victims after an argument inside a Central Square bar. The group then ran away on Mass. Ave. towards Harvard Square.

...The victim’s sobbing girlfriend told police the couple went to the Cantab Lounge at 738 Mass. Ave. midnight Saturday. The couple was inside the bar for a while when a large group of people came up to them and started arguing with the victim because he was wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap, according to police reports.

Repoz Posted: March 04, 2008 at 09:38 AM | 88 comment(s)
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1. winnipegwhip Posted: March 04, 2008 at 10:45 AM (#2705512)

Were any of the agressors ESPN employees?

2. villageidiom Posted: March 04, 2008 at 10:47 AM (#2705513)

Idiots.

3. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: March 04, 2008 at 10:48 AM (#2705514)

you know whoelse is Irish?

WORLD SERIES HERO BOBBY KIELTY!!!

YEAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. Rich Posted: March 04, 2008 at 10:52 AM (#2705522)

The terrorists have won.

5. Mattbert Posted: March 04, 2008 at 10:54 AM (#2705525)

Detectives believe alcohol was involved...

6. hscs Posted: March 04, 2008 at 10:54 AM (#2705526)

The Red Sox Mob better watch out for the Van Buren Boys.

7. Justin Zeth Posted: March 04, 2008 at 10:54 AM (#2705527)

I prefer to withhold judgment when I don't know as much as I could. Not that I'm excusing beating the guy up--if caught, those guys fully deserve to do some real prison time for that--but even walking into a Boston bar with a Yankees cap on is, in and of itself, picking a fight. What we don't know is exactly how our Yankees fan friend was behaving leading up to it, but it's as likely as not that he was doing some aggressing of his own.

8. Van Lingle Mungo Jerry Posted: March 04, 2008 at 10:59 AM (#2705534)

I would have bet my eyeteeth this happened in The Field rather than the Cantab Lounge.

9. SoSH U at work Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:00 AM (#2705537)

Whether you're a Yankee fan, Sox fan, West Coaster or denizen of the fly-over states who thinks everyone involved is profoundly annoying, this is welcome stuff. What's especially refreshing is that it's highly drunken fans who are getting into fights. Perhaps the Yankee fan started it all with his provocative cap-wearing in a Boston bar, but whatever the origins, it's a good thing.

10. snapper Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:01 AM (#2705539)

but even walking into a Boston bar with a Yankees cap on is, in and of itself, picking a fight.

Really? I lived in Cambridge for 5 years and frequently wore a Yankee cap. I wore it in the bleachers at Fenway. No fights. Now, I'm a pretty big guy, and don't generally act like an ass, but I was actually suprised how little grief I caught. Has winning really made Sox fans angrier?

Similarly at Yankee stadium, I've only ever seen Red Sox fans abused if they acted like asses themselves. You sit there watching the game with your girlfriend, nothing happens. You and three buddies decide to be wiseguys, beer showers ensue.

11. Sid Hārtman Gautama Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:01 AM (#2705540)

even walking into a Boston bar with a Yankees cap on is, in and of itself, picking a fight.

Excuse me for my crankiness, but you're an idiot if you think that's actually true.

I watched the 2006 ALDS/ALCS in a central square bar with some friends of mind, and we all sported our A's gear. Was I picking a fight? Or is it only picking a fight if your regionalism is confined to the New York area?

This is so stupid. A bunch of drunken idiots beat up a poor guy - does it matter what team any of them rooted for?

12. Johnny Clash Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:02 AM (#2705543)

it's a good thing

The victim's girlfriend doesn't think so.

13. Rafael Bellylard is in the worst shape of his life Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:02 AM (#2705544)

but even walking into a Boston bar with a Yankees cap on is, in and of itself, picking a fight.

Sorry Justin, but that's unacceptable. As a Red Sox fan who has walked into NY bars with a Boston cap on, I can't accept that this is "picking a fight".

Unless the Yankee fan swung first, there is no excuse. Period.

14. chris p Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:05 AM (#2705550)

I would have bet my eyeteeth this happened in The Field rather than the Cantab Lounge.

exactly what i was thinking.

15. Sid Hārtman Gautama Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:06 AM (#2705552)

I would have bet my eyeteeth this happened in The Field rather than the Cantab Lounge.

If only the Cambridgeport Saloon were still open...

16. haplo53 Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:08 AM (#2705554)

Really? I lived in Cambridge for 5 years and frequently wore a Yankee cap. I wore it in the bleachers at Fenway. No fights. Now, I'm a pretty big guy, and don't generally act like an ass, but I was actually suprised how little grief I caught. Has winning really made Sox fans angrier?

Just curious as to when you lived there... I have Yankee fan friends with similar stories who feel that the YankSox rivlary has only taken these ugly turns in the last 10 years.

17. xbhaskarx Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:11 AM (#2705561)

A group of men — some with Irish accents — beat up a 23-year-old Cambridge man

emailing Lou Dobbs...

18. chris p Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:12 AM (#2705565)

seriously, the cantab? that's where you hang out with the jolly central square bums and listen to bluegrass jams!

19. Justin Zeth Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:21 AM (#2705575)

I'll defer to those of you that live in Boston or have lived there, but I still find it probable that someone willing to wear a Yankees cap into a Boston bar is also willing to get in a drunken shouting match over baseball preferences. All I'm saying the guy might be just as responsible for the fight starting in the first place as the guys that busted him up. And, again, that does not excuse the Boston fans.

20. ellsbury my heart at wounded knee Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:21 AM (#2705577)

I would have bet my eyeteeth this happened in The Field rather than the Cantab Lounge.

It seems particularly odd too, since Warren, one of the bartenders at the Cantab, is a Yankees fan. He almost always roots against the Red Sox. And the bouncer there is a mountain of a man, although apparently he isn't very fast.

21. Craig Calcaterra Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:23 AM (#2705581)

These things never turn out to have happened the way they're first reported. Wait for it: in two days there will be a report that the victim and his assailants were fighting over a girl, or a game of pool, or the relative strengths of Melville's lesser works or something.

22. Ray DiPerna Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:23 AM (#2705582)

but even walking into a Boston bar with a Yankees cap on is, in and of itself, picking a fight.

Sorry Justin, but no.

23. OCD SS Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:23 AM (#2705583)

but even walking into a Boston bar with a Yankees cap on is, in and of itself, picking a fight.

This is the sort of neanderthal sentiment that underlies and perpetuates such such thuggery. It's not limited to either side (IIRC some Yankee fans sent a guy wearing a Sox cap to the hospital in Yonkers last year), but there is just no excuse for it.

I wear my Sox cap everywhere in NYC, and have never had any problems; it would be nice to think that the local fans of the team I root for would extend the same courtesy to "Ex-Pats" on the other side.

All I'm saying the guy might be just as responsible for the fight starting in the first place as the guys that busted him up. And, again, that does not excuse the Boston fans.

Even if the guy was being a dick, it doesn't excuse physical violence of a mob of people beating a single person. The guy who started the fight is the one who threw the first punch.

24. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:25 AM (#2705589)

i've gotten dirty looks for wearing my Red Sox cap.

Fortunately I'm larger than your average Asian.

25. Justin Zeth Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:27 AM (#2705593)

OK, OK, I take it back! Bad idea!

For God's sake, people! You're fanatics.

Not that I'm excusing beating the guy up--if caught, those guys fully deserve to do some real prison time for that

26. OCD SS Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:30 AM (#2705599)

i've gotten dirty looks for wearing my Red Sox cap.

I take back my previous comment; I've gotten some dirty looks. After Bill Mueller's walk off against Rivera, somebody offered to set it on fire the next monday morning, but given that he was dressed like a marketing exec I don't think he was really serious (or had an open flame).

But nothing beyond that.

27. Bernal Diaz has an angel on his shoulder. Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:34 AM (#2705607)

I am shocked that Irish Americans and Irish nationals are involved in a brawl. Shocked.

28. haplo53 Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:38 AM (#2705612)

Wait for it: in two days there will be a report that the victim and his assailants were fighting over a girl, or a game of pool, or the relative strengths of Melville's lesser works or something.

Wade Boggs himself once got into a bar fight over Britain's greatest Prime Ministers.

29. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:38 AM (#2705615)

a marketing exec

yo i woulnd't mess with those guys, they mean business

Edit: Seriously though, I wear my Red Sox hat regularly (and bright red jersey), but I would never in any holy deity's name wear it to a 1000 person Wang rally.

That sounds terribly wrong btw.

30. Padraic Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:38 AM (#2705616)

but even walking into a Boston bar with a Yankees cap on is, in and of itself, picking a fight.

Sorry, I'm piling on too. Very stupid thing to say. Both because of what it implies (well, if someone picks a fight with you...) and because it simply isn't true.

I would've bet the Field too, or maybe even The Phoenix Landing. I wonder if the yuppies next door at Tavern on the Square were upset.

31. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:41 AM (#2705619)

Stay classy, immature drunken guys.

32. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:42 AM (#2705620)

33. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:45 AM (#2705626)

i've gotten dirty looks for wearing my Red Sox cap.
Fortunately I'm larger than your average Asian.

You must be pretty damned big, then, since this is my impression of the average-sized Asian.

34. snapper Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:46 AM (#2705628)

Just curious as to when you lived there... I have Yankee fan friends with similar stories who feel that the YankSox rivlary has only taken these ugly turns in the last 10 years.

Early to mid-90's. Went to Opening Day every year, and as many Yankees games as I could. Always wore my Yankee cap to games, and a fair amount around town, out to bars, etc. I was in college/post-college, so I wore baseball caps a lot :-)

That was one of our jokes that were actually true. You go to a class during registration week, look around, if most of the guys aren't wearing ball caps, bag it, it'll be too hard.

35. Justin Zeth Posted: March 04, 2008 at 11:47 AM (#2705631)

Is your other handle Jesus Melendez?

Oh, now that's just a low blow. That's mean-spirited.

36. Raskolnikov Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:04 PM (#2705656)

Witnesses told police the group of apparent diehard Red Sox fans beat up the victims after an argument inside a Central Square bar. The group then ran away on Mass. Ave. towards Harvard Square.

Obviously spoiled Harvard brats.

37. Cooperstown Schtick Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:05 PM (#2705657)

"Then what happened?"

"I asked him if he liked apples. But he f'n said, 'No.' I didn't f'n know what to do. So I f'n slugged him."

(laughter)

"But you got digits."

"Huh?"

"You got the digits first, right? Before you asked about the apples, you got the girlfriend's digits."

"Oh... ah...."

(laughter... and, scene).

38. SoSH U at work Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:05 PM (#2705662)

This is the sort of neanderthal sentiment that underlies and perpetuates such such thuggery. It's not limited to either side (IIRC some Yankee fans sent a guy wearing a Sox cap to the hospital in Yonkers last year), but there is just no excuse for it.

I was skeptical about that story too. The two pugilists in question were from Central Pennsylvania. It was certainly possible they were both Yankee fans, but I don't recall any actual evidence of it.

39. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:08 PM (#2705664)

"Wait for it: in two days there will be a report that the victim and his assailants were fighting over a girl, or a game of pool, or the relative strengths of Melville's lesser works or something."

Barney: And I say, England's greatest Prime Minister was Lord Palmerston!

Wade: Pitt the Elder!

Barney: Lord Palmerston!

Wade: Pitt the Elder!

40. aleskel Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:08 PM (#2705665)

group of men — some with Irish accents — beat up a 23-year-old Cambridge man

I'm going to venture a guess that the Cambridge man's last name ended with a vowel. Just a guess.

Anyway, having spent a lot of time on the front lines of the Yankees/Sox rivalry (grew up a Yankee fan in Massachusetts, went to a college in NY that draws a lot of people from the Boston area), my experience has been that it has mostly been unfriendly, but not violent, except for 2003 and 2004. Things got pretty ugly those two years.

41. hscs Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:11 PM (#2705668)

This thread is way out of control. Can't we all agree that anyone wearing a Yankees or Red Sox cap looks like a fool? Put on an alternate/retro White Sox, Brewers, or Padres cap and you'll only be assaulted with compliments.

42. RB in NYC (Now with a Training Schedule!) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:13 PM (#2705671)

43. winnipegwhip Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:15 PM (#2705673)

Was the guy wearing a Pepitone jersey? And if so was that Pepitone jersey obtained at a dry cleaner?

44. Bernal Diaz has an angel on his shoulder. Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:16 PM (#2705674)

I strongly advocate putting the Yankees logo and the Red Sox logo in their rivals urinals at the park. There would be less spillage.

45. Judges 20:16 (the Lord's bullpen) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:16 PM (#2705675)

My experience in Cambridge (& Boston) was just that there are certain people there who just want to fight. When I lived in East Cambridge I got threatened once for looking at a window display in a closed shop (I quote: "They're ####### closed you ####### nut, you ####### faggot nut, I'll ####### kill you ####### faggot nut.") I was once threatened with death for having the temerity to be crossing at a crosswalk while a fellow was trying to run a red light. And once I got shoved for walking down a sidewalk when a group of guys were standing in it, saying I "got in their way." Things like that. If I wasn't dedicated to keeping my mouth shut I'd have ended up getting pummeled a few times.

No reason, just there are a few people who want to fight. I'm skinny, not especially manly looking, drunken idiots hate how I dress, and straight people tend to think I'm gay. This is the equivalent of wearing a Yankees cap, just something you can target as a "reason" to get violent if you are looking for a reason to do so.

46. Justin Zeth Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:18 PM (#2705678)

I strongly advocate putting the Yankees logo and the Red Sox logo in their rivals urinals at the park. There would be less spillage.

The remarkable thing is that you'd be shocked to discover just how correct you are. Spillage would go down by something like 75%.

47. Raskolnikov Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:19 PM (#2705680)

I do not condone the beating of anyone for wearing a Yankee cap. Unless it was one of the those pink ones. I'll pretty much wail on anyone wearing a pink Yankee hat. Or a pink Red Sox hat. God, I hate those pink hats.

Hmm, I don't see too many guys wearing pink Yankees or Red Sox caps. Usually chicks. Sometimes pretty chicks. If you're gonna wail on a cute chick, I'm gonna have to step in and get some glory.

48. Judges 20:16 (the Lord's bullpen) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:21 PM (#2705681)

Put on an alternate/retro White Sox, Brewers, or Padres cap and you'll only be assaulted with compliments.

A non-baseball fan friend of mine in Brooklyn used to wear a Pirates cap and sometimes got yelled at for it. He once complained that someone said, "If you're a Pirates fan then you're an idiot!" I was forced to tell my friend that his harasser was correct in his judgments, and told him the tale of Pat Mears' Crippled Paw, and that of Operation Shutdown.

49. Chipper Jonestown Massacre Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:23 PM (#2705685)

This is just payback for the beatdown that those Yankee fan punks gave the Sox fan in "Summer of Sam"...

50. Sid Hārtman Gautama Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:24 PM (#2705687)

This thread is way out of control. Can't we all agree that anyone wearing a Yankees or Red Sox cap looks like a fool?

Agreed. Thread over!

51. RB in NYC (Now with a Training Schedule!) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:28 PM (#2705696)

If you're gonna wail on a cute chick, I'm gonna have to step in and get some glory.

Alright, girls are exempted, I thought that was assumed. But in the past couple of weeks I've seen two guys in the pink hats, and I'm not a fan.

52. jmurph Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:32 PM (#2705705)

Alright, girls are exempted, I thought that was assumed. But in the past couple of weeks I've seen two guys in the pink hats, and I'm not a fan.

I think, but am not positive, that revenue from the pink hats (of all teams) goes towards breast cancer research. So, technically, you guys hate women and are pro-cancer. That seems like bad form to me.

53. haplo53 Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:32 PM (#2705707)

This is just payback for the beatdown that those Yankee fan punks gave the Sox fan in "Summer of Sam"...

When do I get payback for the creepy Reggie Jackson wave that haunts my dreams?

54. winnipegwhip Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:37 PM (#2705717)

I strongly advocate putting the Yankees logo and the Red Sox logo in their rivals urinals at the park. There would be less spillage.

But MLB would charge you the privilege of urinating on MLB Properties. And their would be a limit of 60 seconds in duration to urinate on MLB Properities.

55. HOPE: Madison Obamagarner (Flynn) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:39 PM (#2705722)

56. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:39 PM (#2705723)

60 seconds is pretty long

57. Bernal Diaz has an angel on his shoulder. Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:40 PM (#2705724)

The remarkable thing is that you'd be shocked to discover just how correct you are. Spillage would go down by something like 75%.

I was not kidding in the least.

58. With 17th Pick, From LA, 1k5v3L KcoLLoP Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:41 PM (#2705728)

I can't wait for John Henry to induct the Yankee fan in the Sox Nation hall of fame. Maybe he can send him a David Ortiz autographed X-ray picture.

For the record, two guys threatened to beat me up for wearing a Dbacks hat on the NYC subway a couple of days after game 7 of the 2001 world series.

Unlike real fans (i.e., Red Sox Nation faithful), they were all talk, no action.

59. Bernal Diaz has an angel on his shoulder. Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:42 PM (#2705732)

60 ~~seconds~~ mm is pretty long

FTFY

60. Harmon Microbrew Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:42 PM (#2705733)

I find the "some with Irish accents" part confusing.

Is the writer implying that Bostonians have Irish accents (thus, the assailants were obviously Red Sox fans) or that they were from Ireland, or what?

61. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:49 PM (#2705745)

Yankees/Sox: the new "Troubles."

62. Jolly Old St. Nick (now, with Screen Name history) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:49 PM (#2705746)

These things happen. As a fitting punishment, send the perps to the Yankee Stadium bleachers during a midseason Red Sox series, wearing their Red Sox hats and with a sign around their necks explaining who they are. Nature can be marvelously self-correcting.

63. Mike Green Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:49 PM (#2705747)

I don't know about the Irish accents, but I think I've got one of the suspects-
http://www.2wentysfancydress.co.uk/acatalog/21305.jpg.

64. With 17th Pick, From LA, 1k5v3L KcoLLoP Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:55 PM (#2705759)

send the perps to the Yankee Stadium bleachers

I've sat there. Mythical creatures come out of unfathomable depths. It's like a bar scene from "Star Wars"

65. Mattbert Posted: March 04, 2008 at 12:57 PM (#2705765)

Alright, girls are exempted, I thought that was assumed.

I'm glad that you made this distinction. Because if you tried to wail on Wifebert about her pink hat, well, I'm not sure I could hold her back.

Hell, I've had to duck myself a few times when my teasing apparently crossed the line.

66. snapper Posted: March 04, 2008 at 01:02 PM (#2705781)

I've sat there. Mythical creatures come out of unfathomable depths. It's like a bar scene from "Star Wars"

Yeah, but it's practically yuppified compared to the old days. When I was a kid in the '70s and early '80s the bleachers/upper deck were really special. In retrospect I can't believe my father took me. Between the haze of pot smoke obscuring the field, and the coins/batteries tossed at oufielders, to the burning building on the drive home from the Stadium (and my father always insisted on taking local streets, hated the Deegan traffic). Wow! I don't miss that at all.

67. Weekly Journalist_ Posted: March 04, 2008 at 01:04 PM (#2705787)

I did get swung at after the Superbowl this year. Man, that was sweet.

68. DKDC Posted: March 04, 2008 at 01:05 PM (#2705791)

So, technically, you guys hate women and are pro-[breast] cancer. That seems like bad form to me.

Bad form maybe, but consistent.

69. RMc is the President of the United States Posted: March 04, 2008 at 01:12 PM (#2705805)

I watched the 2006 ALDS/ALCS in a central square bar with some friends of mind, and we all sported our A's gear.

If you had done that in Detroit, you would've been stabbed to death.

Granted, that would've happened if you were wearing A's gear or not, but...

70. Hal Chase Headley Lamarr Hoyt Wilhelm (ACE1242) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 01:21 PM (#2705818)

Pirates cap

My SWAG is that Pirates caps are the third most popular in NYC. To this day, Roberto Clemente is a huge icon to local Puerto Rican kids.

71. Danny Posted: March 04, 2008 at 01:47 PM (#2705862)

Everyone realizes this is a joke, right?

72. Double-Spin Mechanic Posted: March 04, 2008 at 01:59 PM (#2705869)

If you had done that in Detroit, you would've been stabbed to death.

The A's didn't last long enough in that series for anybody to get stabbed to death.

Been to dozens of games at the COPA and the most offensive thing I've seen is a Yankee fan who thought he could take a piss while standing at the rail in SRO.

73. Shredder Posted: March 04, 2008 at 02:12 PM (#2705891)

Is the writer implying that Bostonians have Irish accents (thus, the assailants were obviously Red Sox fans) or that they were from Ireland, or what?

Maybe both. David Feherty was once asked before a tournament in Boston what it was like to play golf in that area. He said it was just like playing in Ireland, except there are more Irish people in Boston.

74. The District Attorney Posted: March 04, 2008 at 02:14 PM (#2705895)

Wow!...The Whitey Ford Bulgers are wilding early this year!

"Uh-oh... and a barrage of pretzels now knocking Whitey unconscious."

"Wow. This is, uhhh... This is a black day for baseball."

75. Rocco's Not-so Malfunctioning Mitochondria Posted: March 04, 2008 at 02:20 PM (#2705910)

I take back my previous comment; I've gotten some dirty looks. After Bill Mueller's walk off against Rivera, somebody offered to set it on fire the next monday morning, but given that he was dressed like a marketing exec I don't think he was really serious (or had an open flame).

Until now, this was one advantage of being a Rays fan. Red Sox or Yankees diehards see you wearing the cap and they mostly feel sorry for you (and then ask you how Racco Baldelli's injuries are coming along)....

I did wear Marlins gear to Yankee Stadium during the World Series and had no problems though, although it's a different crowd when the prices are jacked way up.

Everyone realizes this is a joke, right?

If it is, it's not particularly funny, and it's fooled some other news outlets.

76. Outman, fighter of the Hitman (jonathan) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 02:37 PM (#2705941)

Whether you're a Yankee fan, Sox fan, West Coaster or denizen of the fly-over states who thinks everyone involved is profoundly annoying, this is welcome stuff. What's especially refreshing is that it's highly drunken fans who are getting into fights. Perhaps the Yankee fan started it all with his provocative cap-wearing in a Boston bar, but whatever the origins, it's a good thing.

I agree entirely. This is a great thing. The more Red Sox and Yankees fans take each other out, the less the rest of us have to deal with all their nonsense.

edit:

My experience in Cambridge (& Boston) was just that there are certain people there who just want to fight. When I lived in East Cambridge I got threatened once for looking at a window display in a closed shop (I quote: "They're ####### closed you ####### nut, you ####### faggot nut, I'll ####### kill you ####### faggot nut.") I was once threatened with death for having the temerity to be crossing at a crosswalk while a fellow was trying to run a red light. And once I got shoved for walking down a sidewalk when a group of guys were standing in it, saying I "got in their way." Things like that. If I wasn't dedicated to keeping my mouth shut I'd have ended up getting pummeled a few times.

No reason, just there are a few people who want to fight. I'm skinny, not especially manly looking, drunken idiots hate how I dress, and straight people tend to think I'm gay. This is the equivalent of wearing a Yankees cap, just something you can target as a "reason" to get violent if you are looking for a reason to do so.

This is also very true. A friend of mine last night was telling me how he was at The Sunset in Allston and a guy came up to him and his friend and started telling my friend he didn't believe he was 21 and that he needed to leave the bar (my friend was 21, though kinda small and younger looking, and this guy wasn't even an employee or anything at the place.) Eventually it goes on long enough that he slams my friend's head into the wall. He said he only didn't take a swipe at the guy after that was because he liked going to that bar.

77. Danny Posted: March 04, 2008 at 02:37 PM (#2705942)

If it is, it's not particularly funny, and it's fooled some other news outlets.

Really? I though the Irish accents and striped shirts was a giveaway. And then I clicked on their News section and the top headlines were

Robbers take cash, but leave wallet behind

and

Coat-wearing flasher accosts Harvard student

78. SoSH U at work Posted: March 04, 2008 at 02:44 PM (#2705949)

I think you're mistaken Danny.

79. Sometimes it Rains (sj) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 02:46 PM (#2705953)

More bad Sox behavior.

A Red Sox Scout found out his penis was a Yankee fan, and he beat the hell out of it.

80. RB in NYC (Now with a Training Schedule!) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 02:51 PM (#2705956)

The Red Sox scout in question is this guy

81. Danny Posted: March 04, 2008 at 02:52 PM (#2705958)

Fair enough.

82. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: March 04, 2008 at 03:02 PM (#2705975)

Oh, now that's just a low blow. That's mean-spirited.

You didn't say you weren't...

83. Gambling Rent Czar Posted: March 04, 2008 at 03:18 PM (#2705992)

every time somebody beats up a Yankee fan ..god kills a kitten.

and we get a thread about it.

84. Padraic Posted: March 04, 2008 at 05:52 PM (#2706184)

Everyone realizes this is a joke, right?

From: Robbers Take Cash, Leave Wallet Behind

The 62-year-old Cambridge man told police he was walking on Meacham Road toward Davis Square March 1 at 9:15 p.m. when two men suddenly walked up to him and asked for directions to Mass. Ave.

The man started to answer the question when one suspect punched him in the mouth. As the victim fell to the ground the same suspect grabbed the victim’s sweater and demanded money and allegedly said, ‘Give me your [expletive] money or I’ll kill you,” according to police reports.

Love that dry humor!

85. CONservative governMENt Posted: March 04, 2008 at 09:28 PM (#2706308)

Really? I though the Irish accents and striped shirts was a giveaway. And then I clicked on their News section and the top headlines were:

Robbers take cash, but leave wallet behind
and
Coat-wearing flasher accosts Harvard student

I got a community advisory email from Harvard about the flasher incident, so I hope its not a joke.

86. Exploring Leftist Conservatism since 2008 (ark..) Posted: March 05, 2008 at 01:00 AM (#2706402)

I'm skinny, not especially manly looking, drunken idiots hate how I dress, and straight people tend to think I'm gay. This is the equivalent of wearing a Yankees cap,...

You do realize these are fighting words?

87. Zach Posted: March 05, 2008 at 01:23 AM (#2706409)

I once turned about two rows' worth of heads in the Yankee bleachers for booing Jason Giambi. (I'm from KC: I never even knew booing the Yankees was controversial.) I just smiled and said "What? He sucks!" and they all turned back to the game. So I don't think I buy the claims that certain behavior guarantees a fight.

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