Last time I went to an Angel game, I was talking with an usher and he told me fans of visiting clubs were, for the most part, well behaved, but that Red Sox fans tended to be a bit more obnoxious than other team's fans. I would have thought Yankee fans would be the most obnoxious. Any thoughts?
2007-10-16 08:54:48 · 30 answers · asked by FacenCrowd 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
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2007-10-16 08:57:05 · answer #1 · answered by cpm_2007 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
As a Red Sox fan, I would say that it is close between the Yankee fans and the Red Sox fans in other peoples' ball parks. In Fenway, Boston fans are very very friendly even to visiting teams' fans (except to Yankee fans). In Yankee stadium, unless you represent the Yankees, you will be hassled. In Angel Stadium, there are so many Red sox fans that we try to take over. Red sox fans drown out the Angels fans and the PA system during Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Red Sox fans are good for business for the stadium though. They can help fill up a visiting stadium, as they regularly do in Baltimore and Tampa Bay and they do help the concessions, especially beer, sales. Boston fans who actually are from Boston are used to not having a stadium scoreboard tell them when to cheer. They just start cheers when the time seems appropriate. Southern California fans grew up with the stadium vision telling them to make noise, clap etc. Boston fans are therefore already trained to be spontaneously noisy. That and we're probably drunk.
2007-10-16 17:30:47 · answer #2 · answered by mattapan26 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say Yankees fans are the worst...and that is from my personal experience of growing up in New York State and being a Red Sox fan...but I know Red Sox fans are getting there...the bandwagon White Sox fans are really bad also...I would actually say the worst experiences I have had with opposing teams fans have come in Chicago at U.S. Cellular...on the opposite end of that spectrum I would say Tigers fans are some of the nicest...everyone was real nice and more playful with the banter than mean spirited like in Chicago.
2007-10-16 16:30:51 · answer #3 · answered by JT-24 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yankees and Red Sox fans are the worst. They automatically assume they are entitled to whatever they want - like they just both assumed that Cleveland would melt like cupcakes. That arrogance , also on the part of the players, sent the Yankees packing and has the Red Sox behind in the ALCS. Cleveland fans, on the other hand, do not make such an assumption. We savor a moment such as this like a juicey steak, a fine wine, we yell, scream, cheer, hope, pray and do anything we can to try to will our team to victory. We are downtrodden and beaten at times but we are oh so faithful. Give us a spark and we will do our best to believe. Give us 40 year old Kenny Lofton playing his guts out over billion dollar A-Fraud and we will scream ourselves hoarse. As a side note, the Yankees fans and the Red Sox fans have been pretty well behaved, all things considered, during the playoffs. They try to get a little mouthy but the losses on the field have shut up their arrogant little pie holes. These are my thoughts on the matter.
2007-10-16 16:11:10 · answer #4 · answered by alomew_rocks 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yankee fans by far! I grew up in New York so I experienced it first hand. Back in the 80's I didn't really know any. They just formed out of nowhere in the 90's and they still think they have the greatest team in baseball to this day. I think they going to be the cubs and the red sox of the 2000's. Just my opinion =)
2007-10-16 17:43:17 · answer #5 · answered by Steels 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I got to see both the Yankees and the Red Sox come into Toronto in consecutive weeks and that was on the road. The yankee fans that travelled were considerably worse than the Red Sox ones.
2007-10-16 16:09:51 · answer #6 · answered by brettj666 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'd say:
Yankees and Red Sox fans are obnoxious and arrogant.
(Did anyone see in the 11th Inning of game 2 against Cleveland, when Casey Blake struck out to start the inning, some stupid fan behind the 3rd Base Dugout said very clearly "Sit down B@#ch" Totally stupid.
Rockies fans are disillusioned. They are not as good as their streak claims, I mean they won against mediocre pitching and nearly no offense on the other side. (Not a product of their pitching staff, I mean Jeff Francis as the Ace? He'd be the number 4 at best in Cleveland or Boston.
Cleveland and Royals fans are most loyal in my experience.
2007-10-16 17:22:44 · answer #7 · answered by Bryan M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tampa Bay. Anyone who can even CLAIM to be a fan of the Rays has galaxy-class arrogance, because it is based upon nothing -- no past success, no seminal moments (Boggs' 3000th hit the highlight of the entire franchise history), no dramatic wins, no pennant chases, no award winners, no record setters, not even a cozy home park. Just... well, nada. Standing up for that sort of colossal (albeit institutionally young, but ten years duration) futility takes truly deep arrogance indeed.
Most obnoxious fans, well, that's another question.
2007-10-16 17:09:02 · answer #8 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red Sox fans
2007-10-16 16:31:22 · answer #9 · answered by Crusader 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yankee fans are the WORST!!!!! If you're going to the game and you're a fan of the opposing team, the taxi drivers will take you Shay stadium! Yankees fans because they have won so many championships they are spoiled. I would like to see the Yankees go into a 30 year slump! Just to knock them down a few pegs!
2007-10-16 16:18:14 · answer #10 · answered by Miss 6 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
obnoxious and arrogant are 2 different things. Obnoxious fans I would definitely give to Chicago White Sox, you fans try to attack and umpire. as for arrogant, the Los Angeles Dodgers, glam city at the ballpark besides every home game it is at least the third inning before the place fills in, fashionable late to ball game is ridiculous.
2007-10-16 15:58:37 · answer #11 · answered by Derek O 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋