I think it's finally time to quit

rml_16
rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
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I have a lot of friends on my FL L-- they live near and far and it's a great way to keep up with everyone. I've enjoyed to social aspects and I keep the drama as much to a minimum as I can.

I know others don't like it, but I always have.

But today ... today!

I "liked" a post from the Red Sox Facebook page and Facebook -- oh why? WHY? -- suggested I might "like" the Yankess Facebook page.
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  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    I have a lot of friends on my FL L-- they live near and far and it's a great way to keep up with everyone. I've enjoyed to social aspects and I keep the drama as much to a minimum as I can.

    I know others don't like it, but I always have.

    But today ... today!

    I "liked" a post from the Red Sox Facebook page and Facebook -- oh why? WHY? -- suggested I might "like" the Yankess Facebook page.

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  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    I'm at a loss here. Help me out. What are quitting exactly? :huh:
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I'm at a loss here. Help me out. What are quitting exactly? :huh:
    Facebook, of course. I cannot support the site anymore!
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
    I have a lot of friends on my FL L-- they live near and far and it's a great way to keep up with everyone. I've enjoyed to social aspects and I keep the drama as much to a minimum as I can.

    I know others don't like it, but I always have.

    But today ... today!

    I "liked" a post from the Red Sox Facebook page and Facebook -- oh why? WHY? -- suggested I might "like" the Yankess Facebook page.


    This is the most ef'd up suggestion I've ever read, and I've been on MFP for three years...
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I have a lot of friends on my FL L-- they live near and far and it's a great way to keep up with everyone. I've enjoyed to social aspects and I keep the drama as much to a minimum as I can.

    I know others don't like it, but I always have.

    But today ... today!

    I "liked" a post from the Red Sox Facebook page and Facebook -- oh why? WHY? -- suggested I might "like" the Yankess Facebook page.


    This is the most ef'd up suggestion I've ever read, and I've been on MFP for three years...
    Inorite?
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    terrible no mention of the Dodgers
  • IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym
    IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym Posts: 5,573 Member
    is this Red Sox a knee high fan page of sorts?
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Perhaps, have you considered, that baseball might technically be the root of all that is evil since it is causing you to consider deactivating your FB accounts, and thus, possibly destroying your friendships and alienating you from the rest of the world?
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Perhaps, have you considered, that baseball might technically be the root of all that is evil since it is causing you to consider deactivating your FB accounts, and thus, possibly destroying your friendships and alienating you from the rest of the world?
    You take that back! Baseball is the most beautiful thing on earth!
  • Grimmerick
    Grimmerick Posts: 3,342 Member
    Don't scare me like that, shame on you!!
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Just proves what a hangup Red Sox fans have about the Yankees.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Just proves what a hangup Red Sox fans have about the Yankees.
    Because the Yankees are the devil!
  • etoiles_argentees
    etoiles_argentees Posts: 2,827 Member
    Just proves what a hangup Red Sox fans have about the Yankees.
    Because the Yankees are the devil!

    Noooooooo! Only a few of them.
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    Meh... Facebook's algorthyms for suggesting pages works about as well as Targets "targetting" (no pun intended) ads based on what you buy... seriously Target, I'm buying pull-ups and big kid clothes now for my daughter... why would I need baby food and formula coupons?
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    Just proves what a hangup Red Sox fans have about the Yankees.
    Because the Yankees are the devil!

    I concur... that's not even to mention what I think about Derek Jeter and his "looks".
  • heylookitsval
    heylookitsval Posts: 1,141 Member
    Red Sox and Yankees are equally stupid in my opinion...

    Both teams buy talent and their fanbase is mostly bandwagon fans.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Red Sox and Yankees are equally stupid in my opinion...

    Both teams buy talent and their fanbase is mostly bandwagon fans.
    Uuuummmmm .... Don't all professional teams buy talent?

    And I became a Red Sox fan when I was 13 and visited Boston for the first time and fell in love with the city. Not to mention my home town's minor league team was a Red Sox farm team for many, many, many years and several of the big-name Red Sox started there.

    I've loved them through bad times and good. You realize they didn't win a World Series for nearly 100 years, right? Tough to be a
    "bandwagon fan" of a team that took so long to bring home a championship ....
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Red Sox and Yankees are equally stupid in my opinion...

    Both teams buy talent and their fanbase is mostly bandwagon fans.
    Uuuummmmm .... Don't all professional teams buy talent?

    And I became a Red Sox fan when I was 13 and visited Boston for the first time and fell in love with the city. Not to mention my home town's minor league team was a Red Sox farm team for many, many, many years and several of the big-name Red Sox started there.

    I've loved them through bad times and good. You realize they didn't win a World Series for nearly 100 years, right? Tough to be a
    "bandwagon fan" of a team that took so long to bring home a championship ....

    You know, I'm always amused when a Red Sox fan brings up the "100 years since a championship win" thing. There are lots of teams that have never won a championship.

    Not that that is relevant, but I just needed to point it out. :tongue:
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Red Sox and Yankees are equally stupid in my opinion...

    Both teams buy talent and their fanbase is mostly bandwagon fans.
    Uuuummmmm .... Don't all professional teams buy talent?

    And I became a Red Sox fan when I was 13 and visited Boston for the first time and fell in love with the city. Not to mention my home town's minor league team was a Red Sox farm team for many, many, many years and several of the big-name Red Sox started there.

    I've loved them through bad times and good. You realize they didn't win a World Series for nearly 100 years, right? Tough to be a
    "bandwagon fan" of a team that took so long to bring home a championship ....

    You know, I'm always amused when a Red Sox fan brings up the "100 years since a championship win" thing. There are lots of teams that have never won a championship.

    Not that that is relevant, but I just needed to point it out. :tongue:
    Oh, I get that. I'm just pointing out that it's pretty funny to say someone is a bandwagon fan of a team that didn't win a championship for the first 27 years of my life and hadn't won one for almost 70 years before I was even born.

    I'd have to research, but the teams that have never won -- how long have they been around? Are they mostly newer frnachises?

    And, well, this was about baseball, but I'm also a Buffalo Bills fan. so I do know about never winning a championship! lol
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Red Sox and Yankees are equally stupid in my opinion...

    Both teams buy talent and their fanbase is mostly bandwagon fans.
    Uuuummmmm .... Don't all professional teams buy talent?

    And I became a Red Sox fan when I was 13 and visited Boston for the first time and fell in love with the city. Not to mention my home town's minor league team was a Red Sox farm team for many, many, many years and several of the big-name Red Sox started there.

    I've loved them through bad times and good. You realize they didn't win a World Series for nearly 100 years, right? Tough to be a
    "bandwagon fan" of a team that took so long to bring home a championship ....

    You know, I'm always amused when a Red Sox fan brings up the "100 years since a championship win" thing. There are lots of teams that have never won a championship.

    Not that that is relevant, but I just needed to point it out. :tongue:
    Oh, I get that. I'm just pointing out that it's pretty funny to say someone is a bandwagon fan of a team that didn't win a championship for the first 27 years of my life and hadn't won one for almost 70 years before I was even born.

    I'd have to research, but the teams that have never won -- how long have they been around? Are they mostly newer frnachises?

    And, well, this was about baseball, but I'm also a Buffalo Bills fan. so I do know about never winning a championship! lol

    Bandwagon fans are people that only become fans when a team is successful or popular. The Red Sox have been much more successful and popular since the 2004 season and have picked up a lot of bandwagon fans as a result.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Bandwagon fans are people that only become fans when a team is successful or popular. The Red Sox have been much more successful and popular since the 2004 season and have picked up a lot of bandwagon fans as a result.

    But are "most" of their fans in that category? I grew up in the Northeast and there are a lot of people there who are Red Sox fans and have been since long before 2004.

    And speaking of ...

    I thought this was funny. That season, when they won that first playoff game against the Yankees after losing the first three, my boss at the time (huge Red Sox fan his entire life) came into work and said something like, "At least we won one!" He totally thought that would be it.

    And I said it wasn't over yet and I thought they'd go all the way. And, as usual, I was right. :wink:
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Bandwagon fans are people that only become fans when a team is successful or popular. The Red Sox have been much more successful and popular since the 2004 season and have picked up a lot of bandwagon fans as a result.

    But are "most" of their fans in that category? I grew up in the Northeast and there are a lot of people there who are Red Sox fans and have been since long before 2004.

    I think so, yeah. The Red Sox have since '04 become the darlings of ESPN and I see tons more Red Sox jerseys and stickers and whatnot now than I did 10 years ago.

    There's nothing wrong with it. I'm a Red Sox fan myself. But there are a butt-ton of bandwagon Sox fans out there who will stop paying any attention when the team starts to suck.

    BTW, I live in upstate NY 30 minutes from Massachusetts and my GF redsoxie is from western Mass and lives in VT.
  • mrsamanda86
    mrsamanda86 Posts: 869 Member
    LOL That's messed up of FB. I'm a Yankees fan and would be like WTF if FB tried suggesting Red Sox to me. That's ridiculous, but kind of funny though too.
  • KeViN_v2pt0
    KeViN_v2pt0 Posts: 375 Member
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  • mrsamanda86
    mrsamanda86 Posts: 869 Member
    Red Sox and Yankees are equally stupid in my opinion...

    Both teams buy talent and their fanbase is mostly bandwagon fans.

    Don't be mad because whoever your team is , is broke as heck and can't afford anyone good :bigsmile:
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Bandwagon fans are people that only become fans when a team is successful or popular. The Red Sox have been much more successful and popular since the 2004 season and have picked up a lot of bandwagon fans as a result.

    But are "most" of their fans in that category? I grew up in the Northeast and there are a lot of people there who are Red Sox fans and have been since long before 2004.

    I think so, yeah. The Red Sox have since '04 become the darlings of ESPN and I see tons more Red Sox jerseys and stickers and whatnot now than I did 10 years ago.

    There's nothing wrong with it. I'm a Red Sox fan myself. But there are a butt-ton of bandwagon Sox fans out there who will stop paying any attention when the team starts to suck.

    BTW, I live in upstate NY 30 minutes from Massachusetts and my GF redsoxie is from western Mass and lives in VT.
    I probably drove through your town (or past it) many times going from Buffalo to Boston!
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    I hate facebook too. I'm an alum of Texas Tech University, and this stupid site suggested I "like" the Texas A&M webpage. I guess because I work at the Department of Ag...? Who knows.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I hate facebook too. I'm an alum of Texas Tech University, and this stupid site suggested I "like" the Texas A&M webpage. I guess because I work at the Department of Ag...? Who knows.
    If it ever suggests I "like" the Dolphins, I really will have to break up with it!
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Bandwagon fans are people that only become fans when a team is successful or popular. The Red Sox have been much more successful and popular since the 2004 season and have picked up a lot of bandwagon fans as a result.

    But are "most" of their fans in that category? I grew up in the Northeast and there are a lot of people there who are Red Sox fans and have been since long before 2004.

    I think so, yeah. The Red Sox have since '04 become the darlings of ESPN and I see tons more Red Sox jerseys and stickers and whatnot now than I did 10 years ago.

    There's nothing wrong with it. I'm a Red Sox fan myself. But there are a butt-ton of bandwagon Sox fans out there who will stop paying any attention when the team starts to suck.

    BTW, I live in upstate NY 30 minutes from Massachusetts and my GF redsoxie is from western Mass and lives in VT.
    I probably drove through your town (or past it) many times going from Buffalo to Boston!

    Yes you did. I drive on I-90 every day to get to work!
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Red Sox and Yankees are equally stupid in my opinion...

    Both teams buy talent and their fanbase is mostly bandwagon fans.
    Uuuummmmm .... Don't all professional teams buy talent?

    And I became a Red Sox fan when I was 13 and visited Boston for the first time and fell in love with the city. Not to mention my home town's minor league team was a Red Sox farm team for many, many, many years and several of the big-name Red Sox started there.

    I've loved them through bad times and good. You realize they didn't win a World Series for nearly 100 years, right? Tough to be a
    "bandwagon fan" of a team that took so long to bring home a championship ....

    You know, I'm always amused when a Red Sox fan brings up the "100 years since a championship win" thing. There are lots of teams that have never won a championship.

    Not that that is relevant, but I just needed to point it out. :tongue:
    Oh, I get that. I'm just pointing out that it's pretty funny to say someone is a bandwagon fan of a team that didn't win a championship for the first 27 years of my life and hadn't won one for almost 70 years before I was even born.

    I'd have to research, but the teams that have never won -- how long have they been around? Are they mostly newer frnachises?

    And, well, this was about baseball, but I'm also a Buffalo Bills fan. so I do know about never winning a championship! lol

    Actually, there are more established teams that haven't won a World Series than newer teams that haven't won. Yes, I wiki'd it.


    Texas Rangers - (franchise began 1961)
    Houston Astros - (franchise began 1962)
    Milwaukee Brewers - (franchise began 1969)
    San Diego Padres - (franchise began 1969)
    Washington Nationals - (franchise began 1969)
    Seattle Mariners - (franchise began 1977)

    Except for the Nationals and the Mariners, each one of these teams has made at least one appearance at the World Series and lost.

    Colorado Rockies - (franchise began 1993)
    Tampa Bay Rays - (franchise began 1998)

    These are the only newer franchises that have never won the World Series, but both have made an appearance.


    *on a personal note - When I speak of teams that never win the championship, I'm usually painfully referring to my Atlanta Falcons. *sigh*

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