"Red Sox Nation" is indeed a little annoying, coming from someone who was a Red Sox fan before all this pink-hat bullshiat started.

It's nowhere near as annoying as Patriots fandom is becoming though. Honestly, I might not even follow the Pats this year. They're becoming the Cowboys of the 00's.

Holophrastic: What drives me nuts are the damn Celtics fans, who haven't stopped blathering since Garnett showed up. Jesus, what insufferable cocks. If you haven't won a damn thing since the 80s, you don't get to talk about all your rings.

No argument here. I decided from day one that I am NOT jumping on the Celtics bandwagon.

You know what really pisses me off? People who wear Yankees hats in Boston. I don't care that there are people from NY who move to Boston and root for the Yankees. I can accept that. But if you wear the hat on the streets of Boston, YOU ARE DELIBERATELY DOING IT TO TRY AND START A FIGHT WITH RED SOX FANS. Cut that shiat out.

And yes, it's just as bad when Red Sox fans wear their attire in NY. You'll never see me going to NY wearing Red Sox clothing. If you're going to visit/move to a city, at least have some token amount of respect for where you are and DO NOT go in wearing the enemy colors.

It's almost as annoying as the asshole New York college kids who move to Boston for school, and then complain how much the pizza/bagels/Chinese/etc all suck compared to New York. Hey shiathead, NOBODY put a gun to your head and forced you to move here and eat it. And then they eat it anyway. Go the fark back to NY if it's so much better!

For the record, I actually love the city of New York and some of the people there. Just not the assholes, or their sports teams.

Bill Frist: I don't see what any of that has to do with the Yankees or New Yorkers. I Live in NYC currently and I see people with Red Sox gear CONSTANTLY.

And they're also assholes.

Bill Frist: For better or worse, most sports fans feel they can wear their old team clothes in a new city.

A new city, sure, but not the ONE city that happens to be the arch-enemy.

If an Orioles, Phillies, Cubs or whatever other type of fan wants to wear their hat in Boston, that's fine. If it's a Yankees hat, as far as I'm concerned, you are LOOKING for a fight. And it's not like I'm the kind of guy that would even go and GIVE them a fight over it. I don't even bother talking to them. It's just the attitude behind it. You're proudly flaunting the colors of a team that you KNOW most people in the city hate. It's rude and disrespectful. Root for the Yankees in Boston, I don't care. But leave the hat at home.

Yanks_RSJ: It's a free country, wear your gear anywhere you please.

I didn't say they didn't have the right to free speech. Yeah, you have a LEGAL right to wear your hat anywhere you want. I'm not saying they should be arrested for it. I'm saying they SHOULDN'T wear it in the opposing city, out of courtesy.

E5K1M0: Maybe the Yankees bribed the people wearing the Yankees hats.....just to piss you off.

Hey asshole, stick to the current thread. You may NOT have a threadjack. Not yours.

Bill Frist: Well I wouldn't go that far, though I'd agree it is a kind of dumb and annoying thing to do.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

Bill Frist: I guess I just didn't know why you framed it as a NYer/Yankees thing (or a Boston and NY thing). Everyone seems to do it. I've lived in DC, I've lived in the south, etc. I've seen it everywhere.

I'm saying you shouldn't wear the hat of the team that is specifically THE MOST HATED team in wherever you're living.

Such as:

A Steelers hat in Dallas

A Pats fan in Indianapolis

A Cubs hat in St. Louis

etc.

It's just rude. If you've decided you want to make a place your new home, or even just visit, you at least owe the city a token amount of respect while you're there, even if you're not a fan of the home team. It's fine to wear a hat that isn't the home team, but not THE ENEMY, as it were. That IS a little bit like wearing "blood" colors on "crip" turf (alright, it's a slight exaggeration, but the same idea). You're intentionally trying to provoke a fight with the locals if you do that.

Granted it's a little bit hard not to do in places like NY and Chicago that have two rival teams, but for the most part, I think it's just a matter of common courtesy. You can still root for the enemy, just don't be OBVIOUS about it.