Red Sox Fans Unleash On Mother Nature After Marlins Victory

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They expect a win every night, and expect every call to go their own way. They have come to expect championships (BDD reads "How about the Stanley Cup award Bruins? Sheesh"), and they'd prefer it over the Yankees. If it comes on a silver platter, that would be great, but they'd prefer platinum.

While I was in Boston I witnessed this transformation first-hand, from August 2004, willing the Sox onward in the playoffs, to the empty seats in the Boston Garden that same season cheering for the Bruins and Celtics.  Three years later it was pink hats everywhere, Celtics sellouts, and lifelong fans that could not tell you who Yaz was or what sport Larry Bird played.

If mother nature interferes with their will, it is greed, disrespect, and a  lack of consideration. If they don't win, there is someone or something out of their control to lash out on.

If they only knew what the team on the other side of the field went through every night.

They are lucky to break 15,000 "fans" at a game, and every day in South Florida is risking "greed" to get a ballgame in, as it rains daily in Miami-Dade-Broward.  Their payroll could afford maybe one or two Red Sox players, and they are most likely to be traded a year later.

Parking at LandShark Stadium, the Marlins home, costs more than a ticket for some sections.

Games have had to be played in other states because of hurricanes.

Red Sox fans, I understand the terrible tragedy that you experienced last night.  Not getting to see a victory because Mother Nature decided it was not your night is not fair, never mind Ricky Nolasco not getting a chance to lower his ERA and continue spinning a gem on your turf.

Tickets, concessions, and parking is expensive, but there are worse things in the world.  If you have to endure it two or three times a summer, armageddon may be coming.

Or maybe, just maybe, as Jason Bay said, "It's the worst thing in the [baseball] world, but it is what it is."

You take a chance buying tickets to a game any day of the week, against any team, in any state.  The chances of last night's events transpiring the way they did are unlikely, but that is life.

But would you be complaining if you won? While you may be unhappy you were shorted 4 innings, I bet not.

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