diehard fans priced out of attending by pink hatted tourists.

Usually the real passion is in the bleachers, but in Boston the bleachers are packed with college kids. None of them are from New England, and they all wear team paraphernalia so pristine the price tags are still on them.

But this is the same exact comment that lackey said (implied) about our fans that made everyone hate him. Hate to say it, but you, me and lackey are right.

but I don’t want to see THAT kind of emotion. That display is waaaay too geeky for my taste. However, I do wish our fanbase was more intense and passionate about the game. When the A’s come to town, the small A’s entourage that shows up easily out-yells the rest of the stadium. That’s pathetic. The freakin A’s, man.

But we do have that kid who wears the red wig, paints his chest and walks around the lower view level chanting ’Let’s go, angels" while a bunch of younger kids follow behind him, chanting along. Almost every game I go to he’s there. Maybe he’s the son of HH member (?).

And BTW, respond to my e-mail (assuming you got it from Rev).

Those guys seriously need to get some sun.

At the goth shadow prom.

He was actually funny

After years… DECADES… of a policy of not showing fans interfering with the game it was pretty pathetic that Fox and Joe Buck fixated on the dude to denigrate the Angels fan base as gloryhogging drunk casual fans. They also do this with any beach balls that appear at the stadium.

Why is it that guys wearing business suits at Yankee Stadium who are there to do business deals and leave in the 6th inning are considered “fans” but slapping a beachball around makes us nimrods?

I seem to recall Charlie Sheen buying sections of tickets in hopes of catching a foul ball before the Angels were any good.

I can tell you that it’s pretty much only recent history (2002 to 2003, actually) that the Angel fans have been getting pumped up about the Angels. For years, I’ve either gone to the Big A when anyone came to town to play the Angels or watch the televised games, and the fans in attendance have routinely come late to the games and left early. Except on nights like "Big Bang Friday," the stands were also frequently only half full. Sell-out games were a rarity, occurring on a few days like Opening Day. There was some cheering and chanting going on, but most of it was prompted by the stadium big screen. I use to comment frequently how sad it was that the bulk of people in the Orange County area didn’t support their major league ball team (nor their football team, hence the move in 1994). Even the sportcasters on the nightly news would bury their coverage of the Angel games in the middle of their reports.

First, Josh Lewin was yelling “ballgame!!!” even when he did play by play for the the Tigers. He’s done it ever since coming to Texas ten seasons ago, so that is nothing new.

Second, there is no old lady banging a tom-tom. There was an old guy who banged a drum, but he died years ago. Clearly you’re not up to date with the Rangers.

Molina hasn’t contributed anything. Oliver was an ex-Ranger before he was an ex-Angel, Guerrero…well, yeah. So?

As for why attendance wanes, if you actually live here you’d know why. On the field game time temperatures of 120 degrees tends to keep people away. The other night it was still 95 degrees at my place at 12am. I’m a die hard fan and I don’t even go to that many games per year. If we had LA weather, attendance would be a lot better than it is. But we don’t. As for people arriving late, the stadium is in the suburbs and traffic is partly to blame. You guys know a little something about that. I would imagine that heat exhaustion is to blame when some leave early. Some bandwagoneers do leave early, of course.

I went to college in LA for a while and I don’t remember the Angels being a big deal at all. This was before they went on their good run, of course. After several years of winning I never made fun of Angels fans for showing up. I make fun of the Angels and their fans for different reasons, but I won’t get into that here.

Oh, and as for why there are pasty people here. Well, again, we do not have LA weather. You go outside here in the Summer, you’re probably going out at night. Most people prefer to sit in the air conditioning getting fat regardless of the time of day.

Lastly, those kids dancing after the HR…they’re just having fun. What’s the problem?