Insult! Ahh, it feels good.
Pappy - it wasn't just Spo and me talking baseball. Check out the Insult archive from October '03 (the taunting over the brutal game 7 ALCS loss) and October '04 (that ghostbusters/choking post, Wilson calling Johnny Damon a sexy mongoloid) - everybody got into it. As far as this weekend goes - it just solidifies the position of the Red Sox as the best-run organization, top to bottom, in baseball right now. They spend a ton of money, true, but half of the most important people on this year's team were young, home-grown players. Whatever you think of Red Sox fans, there aren't really any villains on this team.
The Patriots on the other hand - good christ, they're a bunch of bastards (I mean that in the most complimentary way). Running up the score, going for fuck-you touchdowns at the end of every game, it's awesome. I hope they follow the path they're on to the logical end and start doing things like: pretending to get injured on the field only to hop up and cheap shot someone, "accidentally" replacing the football with a puppy before Gostkowski kicks a field goal, turning the Dallas star into a bloody pentagram (if they play Dallas again), imprisoning Archie Manning at an off-site location before next week's Colts-Patriots footbalpocalypse. I want to see more unnecessary roughness penalties when they're up 49-0.
Everyone in CT...we should try to do something good, another dinner, over the holidays.
ST00N!