Phillies Nation

Wow. Phillies fans always get ripped but the truth is it happens everywhere. Philly is always targerted. You get good and bad fans everywhere.

Here’s where I found links to all this stuff. It was from 700Level.

Watch the YouTube video and that will help give you an idea.

http://www.the700level.com/2008/10/in-the-belly-of.html#more

So many of my friends are from North Jersey, including my girlfriend. They love to rag on me all the time and go into rants about how obnoxious Philly fans are, etc. I get it repeatidly.

I was out to dinner with my girlfriend over the weekend in North Jersey wearing my Phillies hoodie. We ran into one of my good friends from college with her parents. Her parents started going on the offensive and critisizing me for my hoodie (and they’re Yankees fans). I also received a lot of dirty looks.

But the thing is, nothing ever gets physical. It is all verbal taunting. I heard many stories out of Dodgers Stadium in the NLCS, and the majority were physical. That is what sickens me.

I am glad to see this brought to light. My sister and I are full season ticket holders for the Phillies. Section 144 Row 1. Anyone out there knows how brutal the crowd can be out there not only to opposing teams left fielders but to opposing teams fans as well. Usually it is kept pretty civil and without vulgarity and threats. My sister moved to San Diego this past Christmas and has been missing the playoffs badly so she bought tickets to last evenings Game 3 in LA. She wore an Utley Shirt and her friend wore a Kelly Green Tug McGraw jersey. She said they sat there and kept to themselves, barely even cheering out loud when the Phillies did something good. In return they got flipped off at least 4 times by another female Dodgers fan and told to eff off! Then they got heckeled up and down from the bathrooms, which is fine, but then a guy stepped into the isle, blocking them, and point right at them and said, “You effing bitches should go the eff home!” These verbal attacks continued all night. I spoke to my sister after the game hoping to hear her excited and instead all I heard were these stories and that she almost didn’t have fun and almost wished she had stayed in San Diego to watch it on TV. That’s ridiculous! I get it if they were guys and mouthing off to the Dodger fans then maybe, but never should anyone use vulgarity and physical threats. I get really upset when I hear women getting crap and especially so when its my sister. General heckeling is part of the game but it should never be personal, keep it about the teams. Sorry for the long post, had to vent a bit about this!

pure and simple certain teams fans especially the Dodger fans could throw broken bottles at the opposing team in the field or something explosive into the opposing dugout and it would be considered enthusiastic fanship. It was disgraceful how they were booing Vic and Utley with no prior cause, you can understand it when there’s bitter history but Utley turning them down to go to college and Vic being let go as a rule 5 is hardly JD Drew territory.

My wife and I went to a Nationals game last year. It was the last at RFK stadium. We’re pretty laid, back chill people. Even at Phillies home games it’s just a lot of standing and clapping. I don’t even know how to boo and would likely feel stupid doing it.

So the Nats game; we’re losing, home team is winning. They’ve been a team for like 2 years at this point so where they get this hooligan attitude from is beyond me. The curses never stopped, we had shit thrown at us, some a-hole a few seats down kept screaming over to us that the Eagles were losing while listening to his transistor radio (in fact he was lying, the Eagles killed the Lions that day), just all around not a fun day. Since then I avoid at all costs going to other teams stadiums and even avoid home Phillies games that I know will have drama (ie. coming inches from blows with a bunch of loser Mets fans at the Bank who thought it would be fun to come and pick a fight).

I don’t think this stuff doesn’t happen in Philly, but it happens everywhere and if the mainsteam media addressed that this happens at Yankee and Dodger Stadium just as much as it happens in Philly or Cleveland maybe MLB would be more motivated to stop it. They like to just say “Oh, you know the Philadelphia crowd” and act like going to Fenway is a family day at the park.

One of my favorite moments this year was when the Reds came to Philly and Ken Griffey was stuck at 599. There was a dude in a Reds jersey sitting right in front of us. He was a big dude but you could tell he was on edge the entire game just waiting for that Philly welcome. Griffey gets put in as a pinch hitter, the entire crowd goes nuts and gives him a standing ovation. He walks (the crowd boo’d Myers for walking him) and Phillies fans started high fiving the Reds fan and he seemed to lighten up and enjoy the rest of the game. That’s how it should be.

I will be at Game 5 tomorrow in L.A. Not looking forward to it at all.

Why would you go to Game 5 if you’re not looking forward to it at all?

Because I will happen to be in LA that day and I want to watch my team take a shot at going to the World Series. It doesn’t mean that I want to get pelted with french fries and be called a faggot for 9-innings by some over weight fair-weather loser who is going to post clips of me on YouTube.

Chase Mutley just because you are gay they shouldn’t have said that. It’s just the way you are.

This is disgusting.

Redsoxfan, I have no idea what that just meant so I have no idea how you want me to respond. You can call me gay on the internet all you want.

Hope your team can keep the Rays under 10 runs tonight, ok?

Good burn Mutley. I think it’s hilarious that this troll is over here trashing the Phillies for some reason which I don’t understand, and his team isn’t even up in his own series. I think he has other things to worry about.

Alright guys, a little off topic here. I go to Drexel, my buddy goes to UNC Wilmington. If the Phils make the WS, he’s flyng up to stay with me for the weekend that the Phils would have their home games. Air fare keeps rising as the days pass. Is it bad luck for him to buy his plane ticket today? If you guys say don’t do it, I’ll make sure that he waits until (knock on wood) we clinch.

people used to like RedSox fans… now we all hope they get rocked by the Rays and everyone’s favorite GM, Theo Epstein is falling out of favor cause he has holes all over the place, which with a payroll like that should never happen

I’m so glad that the national media doesn’t want a Phillies-Rays World Series. because those are the two teams I am rooting for.. like I said last week.. it would be a BASEBALL WORLD SERIES.. If I wanted a DRAMA SERIES, I would watch TNT.

Anyone that calls someone “gay” over the internet is obviously a really cool, big, tough dude..

I actually started rooting for the Red Sox in the AL a few years back when:
A) I was sick of seeing the Yankees win so much.
B) They got Curt Schilling, one of my all time favorites.

Looking at it now, the “Red Sox Nation” is just the new evil empire. They have a mini dynasty going, and it seems like all teams that achieve stable success for a few years wind up this way. With the great core of young players we have now, I just hope we as Phillies fans don’t lose sight of how to be good sports fans and citizens as we start racking up the wins. :)

Just to clairfy, I never stopped being a Phillies fan, and of course in the brief period where I backed the Sox, I would always of course oull for my Phils in a contest between the two.

Buck is just pissed he isnt calling the Boston Games. Those 2 morons who are callig the Boston series are sucking up to Boston fanbase so much.

Kazmir could throw a no hitter and they would talk about how Boston is smart to get Kazmirs pitch count so high so he might be tired for his next start.

On the fanbase, Boston is no better then Phils fans. Except when they curse they are wearing Cashmere expensive shirts and have that AWFUL accent. Where as in Philly it is a guy cursing and rocking a phillies shirt.

All passionate fans are going to get worked up at a game, however physical violence is unnessacary, LA is just a classless city, with half hearted fans who arrive in the 3rd and leave in 7th

Red Sox nation is now part of the axis of evil

RedSoxFan, $10 million to a rookie unproven draft pick?

That is greedy spite, not being cheap.

And overpaying for players is not something to brag about. It is kind of funny that the Red Sox have become everything they have hated: The Yankees 2.0. Overspend a ridiculous amount of money to get an overinflated payroll, only to find yourself losing out to a team that has a payroll a small fraction of what yours is.

I can’t believe you are actually holding Drew up like a saint and critisizing some guy standing and clapping when his team performs well at a game. I never knew that standing and clapping is the cardinal sin of sports and deserves physical assaulting.

How about this? How about we come to Fenway and when you stand and clap for your team, we beat the crap out of you? Sound fair?

Seriously, what happened to how humble you guys used to be? You win 2 World Series and all of the sudden you strut like the kings of the world?

Ah, but if you’re wearing a Red Sox jersey, it is totally cool? Gotcha. Good to know that Boston is infalllible.

Redsoxfan, I’m likely to believe that you would deserve to get beat up most places you go, regardless of what baseball team you happen to follow.

I guess it’s the price we pay for a great winning team. People are so jealous of us. They say winning is everything, it’s the only thing.By the way If the phillies by some miracle clinch the pennant. I will be on broad and shunk with my drew jersey.

So you’re saying we’re jealous of being a complete a total arrogant asshole like yourself? Wow, that’s pompous of you to say.

Then again, if it makes you feel better to wear your Red Sox jersey, be my guest. That still doesn’t change what’s happening on the field.

By the way, how are you Red Sox doing right now in the ALCS? They have a lead, yes?

that video is crazy, poor guy. jack arses holding seat cushions up so he couldn’t see. the jerk behind him grabbed him to sit him down. Sure at CBP we’ve razzed opposing fans, but never, ever touch them. i tell ya, we were treated nicer at Yankees Stadium!

You’ll get your Drew jersey covered in beer… and hopefully it’s a navy-blue jersey, because it’ll match the new shiners under your eyes.

If I were you, I would walk my nerdy ass into oncoming traffic!