As Red Sox fans revel, Oakland cruising on easy
Boston Globe article looks at Boston's mania (over just barely getting into the playoffs?) vs. Oakland's ho-hum response to being there ("been there, done that" - four years running now).
Phil Wolff, from Oakland--but not ho-hum!--is headed to Boston (Cambridge) for the BloggerCon. (His talk: Weblogs Behind the Firewall).
So, maybe this little article a bit of required reading ;^) for inbound visitors from that fine East Bay city, to better understand some of the nuttiness here in Beantown (including escaped gorillas).
Welcome, Phil!
Wm.
"This is the cross Oakland fans have to bear -- not losing, but being out of style."
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"in Boston, baseball fandom is religion, a manifestation of hope, a test of endurance."
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"That's the thing. They [the A's] win. To truly understand the joy and suffering, you might just need to be in Boston."
Another "Whim" blog ref to Phil: http://www.reilly2001.info/whim/archives/000031.html, re: "BlogChalking"...
Posted by William in category: Whim at October 1, 2003 08:31 AM