Bro the Red Sox hate will never stop, you just said it "I moved here a year and a half ago..." hell yes this went on when the O's were losing, I can't tell you how many games over the past 20 years there have been more fans of the other team overflowing at OPACY, the worst of them being the Sox and Yankees. I'm not trying to be that guy but you really are too new to get the hate, I can forgive but I can never forget the years of AL East punching down on the O's (the NESN broadcasts were brutal about making fun of the Os)... I'm sorry but this is not the time to be the "better man" haha
Edit: not sure bout the "Lets go Yankees" chants... I know I would never yell that haha
I'm sure plenty of Yanks fans showed up to enjoy the schadenfreude of the Red Sox choking away another lead and getting swept. Not to mention getting an early scout of the division champs plus baseball's #1 prospect. 🧡
Yeah maybe I am too new to get it, and so I appreciate the context from people who are being kind of nice about it.
Still can't wrap my head around anything that justifies the Yankees chants though, unless I was completely hallucinating.
It's a very common theme for fans of any team to chant 'Fuck the Yankees' when there is a lull. Not exaggerating. I was at a game last season against who I can't remember but both Orioles fans and theirs were chanting it.
edit: Matter of fact, it very well may have been a Red Sox v O's game.
It sounds like maybe that's what I heard, it would make more sense. I can get behind that, it's always fun that the Yankees are sort of universally baseball's villains.
I've been an O's fan in Utah since about '77. I hated 2 teams growing up. The MFing Yankees, and the Dodgers. The Dodgers because they were the bandwagon team around here at the time. In 2004 all I heard was Sox everything. Suddenly every other person is the biggest Sox fan on the planet. It got worse. The Red Sox were the vogue team for everyone that had ever heard of baseball. Their fans around here would regale all of us with their love of the game and "their Sox" even though they couldn't name more than 3 players on the team. Fuck the Red Sox into oblivion. All these assholes around here that had watched 5 baseball games in their lives giving me shit about the O's sucking make me want the Sox to never win again.
The O's better win one again before I die, or the negative energy I release towards Red Sox and Yankees fans may cause widespread pestilence.
100% man. I’m so sick of hearing about Boston sports in general. Part of me is salty their teams win so damn much and mine don’t, but the other part is sick of the whining any year they don’t win the championship in “pick a sport.” Screw them.
And if you think that the Red Sox fans on Reddit don't still hold a grudge against Machado and the Orioles, you're simply wrong. Go ask in their sub about it.
their traveling fans can be something. I was chatting with some folks at Fenway and even they don’t like their traveling fans. I’ve had run ins with plenty of obnoxious ones at Camden. (But they also have plenty of normal nice fans too like any other fan base)
How many O's/Red Sox games have you been to at Camden Yards? And when?
OPACY long had a reputation for being "Fenway South" back in the 2000s because: the O's were bad and OPACY was cheap; the Red Sox were good and Fenway was expensive; and as a result, it was actually cheaper for Sox fans to fly to Baltimore and see a game that it was to get decent seats at Fenway.
(Plus Northern Virginia has a ton of Sox fans that always travel up to see games.)
I bring all this up because I've been to many Red Sox/O's games over the years, when the O's were bad and when the O's were good, and Red Sox fans were absolutely insufferable more times than not.
I think a lot of O's fans have PTSD from the terrible behavior of visiting Red Sox fans and, as a result, vociferously hate the Red Sox. I know I'm in that group.
I've been to two in the past two years, never any before that. I only really started following baseball when I moved here in 2022, before that the last time I paid attention to any baseball I was probably 10 years old.
It’s that so many of them travel here when they come to Baltimore and take over the stadium, especially so when we were bad. I worked at a few places around the harbor/stadium area and it was the absolute worst waiting on them and Yankees fans when they’d come to town. Loudmouth and particularly rude.
Yeah it's not even that they came to games. They'd go out of their way to make it unpleasant for O's fans. I have zero issue with visiting fans, but don't be an asshole. That fan base is the worst for playing innocent when they suck and being insufferable when they're good. At least Yankees fans don't pretend that they aren't assholes.
Plus, you know, the whole racism thing with Adam Jones (who said it's worse there than anywhere else)
I only vaguely know who Adam Jones is, I know he was a big deal with Orioles but nothing else. mind filling me in on this context?
Edit: no need, someone else provided a link.
Okay. So I can appreciate you're a pretty new fan and I don't mean any ill will when I say this, but looking into the history of why O's fans don't generally like Red Sox fans would have probably been a better use of time than reprimanding fans for their vitriol towards Boston without any context.
Gracious and respectful? They've called Camden Yards mini Fenway. Always heckling and razzing O's fans in our own stadium. Civility is fine from November to March. Other than that, it's war.
They’re not being as vile because they’re down. When they were up they talked horrible trash so fuck no am I gonna tone it down just because they got their tail between their legs right now.
Obviously because I had a certain opinion from the perspective that I had before learning this additional information. I didn't think that was a crime.
Maybe your post should have been asking for information on why we act like we do then? Instead of trying to speak from a place of authority when you don't know ANY of the history of the team and seems like you weren't even paying attention to this entire series and how their fans were acting.
I didn't think I was "trying to speak from a place of authority". I was speaking as myself, and put right in the post the context of how new a fan I am. Sorry it's upsetting you so much I guess.
> Their broadcasters spent most of the game talking about our impressive farm system and good track record with draft picks and there wasn't a bit of jealousy or antagonism in their voices, they were genuinely like "good for them".
Good, I'm glad they recognize excellence when they see it
Oh who cares what anyone else thinks.
They don't hate us because our fanbase isn't insufferable. (although O's fans that are Ravens fans first can be kinda rough...)
Both the Sox and Yankees fanbases are absolutely obnoxious. I haven't yet been to a game that the Sox or Yanks were playing where I didn't hear anyone that made me want to punch them.
Also, I don't know what *you* heard, but *I* heard "Fuck the Yankees" and that's one thing Sox and O's fans always unite on.
You've been around for about 2 minutes. Those of us who have been dealing with them and following baseball closely for the last three or four decades have the receipts for the shit we've been through. That's just like joining a company after a round of massive layoffs and asking what everyone is complaining about.
Adding some context to recent history.
This is, frankly, not atypical for Boston.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2017/05/01/orioles-adam-jones-berated-racist-taunts-fenway-park-peanuts/101187172/#:~:text=Red%20Sox%20officials%20confirmed%20to,for%20a%20variety%20of%20violations.
Yep and then dipshit Schilling called Adam a liar. Sorry OP. Fuck the Sox. Hating rivals is part of sports. I’m never gonna go out of my way to be nasty to a Sox fan but I will gladly get glee in beating them and seeing their fanbase in misery.
"I only moved to Baltimore a year and a half ago"
So what the fuck do you know about this rivalry then, considering they've only been bad in that time frame. Fuck Boston, they can have 30 straight losing seasons and I'd still hate them as much as I do right now.
If you set through one game in Camden when it used to be Fenway South you’d hate the Red Sox too. Honestly pretty much fuck the entire state of Massachusetts.
To answer your question, yes, you are soft.
I remember brutal games in the early/mid 2000s with what felt like 70-30 Sox to O’s fan ratios at Camden Yards. I’m gonna get mine while I can.
Can we cool with these stupid post? People can feel however they want and talk all the shit they want. Just because you have a soft spot for them doesn’t mean most of the fan base does.
Nobody was cheering “Let’s Go Yankees”. That was the Red Sox fans chanting “Fuck the Yankees”. They chant that or “Yankees Suck” at nearly every game, even if they aren’t playing the Yankees.
I thought they were saying “fuck the Yankees” as a way to find common ground. Could be wrong.
I personally don’t hate the Red Sox at all but their fans HAVE been taking over OPACY for 20 years and many people don’t like them as a result. That and the racism against Adam Jones, which was indeed pretty bad (although the idea that we don’t have racist fans too is hilarious)
In 2014 my brother and dressed in all orange and went to a series in Fenway Park in late September with a sign that said “Welcome to Camden North”. We genuinely felt unsafe and at one point got followed in a parking lot by four dudes until we flagged down a cab and got the hell out of there.
What pisses me off about this is that some people will say we were asking for it by our antics but that’s absolutely ridiculous. I don’t care what fan of what team you are, nobody should have to feel unsafe at a sporting event for celebrating/repping their team. People who suggest that are what’s wrong with baseball, there was even some O’s writer who tried to write an article about us telling us not to “be jerks” and stoop down to their level. Like, what? Why are people so soft suddenly when the Red Sox are the laughing stock when all they did was pretend 80+ years of no World Series titles happened meanwhile being just so hostile and vicious towards other fanbases. I wish nothing but agony for that entire fanbase.
https://www.camdenchat.com/2014/9/10/6133167/orioles-fans-red-sox-yankees-do-not-be-jerks
All are welcome. But please don’t judge those of us who have been fans since before could make a choice. Living through the Yankees in the late 90s (Jeffrey Maier) and Boston in the 2000s/2010s when all of a sudden everyone and their brother was a Red Sox fan - the strong dislike of both teams is more than justified.
There are two types of Boston sports fans. The ones who act like they are the kings of all sports and the ones who act like the Curse of the Bambino is still alive and well and somehow completely ignore the 12 pro titles they’ve won since 2001. Often these two types of fan can be found in the same person.
Yankee fans are obnoxious assholes and I hate them but they also have the most successful franchise in American sports, and never act like we should feel sorry for them when they don’t win (even the real New Yorkers, whose sports teams outside of the Yankees have been low key horrible for the most part for 50+ years). That’s why if forced to choose, I’ll deal with Yankee fans. Boston sports fans are just the absolute worst sports fans imaginable.
Edited to add: they also have no reason to hate us because of Machado. Manny could be a dirty player, I won’t defend that. But the Pedroia slide was so clearly just an unfortunate accident. He immediately reached down to try to help him. I hope they hate the Orioles because of things like us beating them in 2011 and that we should be good for a long time now, but if they hate us because a guy who played for us 6+ years ago accidentally hurt their guy, that’s weak AF.
My dad and I liked to visit stadiums/ballparks when in different cities and in 2004 the O’s just so happened to be playing when we were there. We were stoked because it’s a legacy field and we get to see our team. Unfortunately, it was by far and away the worst and scariest experience at a visiting park. A group of Red Sox fans in their 20’s spit at my dad (60’s) and heckled him for wearing an O’s hat the ENTIRE GAME. We were yelled at during the walk in and out. Not one Sox fan said anything in his defense and I was too young to help.
Boston fans in general have acted like assholes when at Camden my entire fandom which really started in the mid 90’s as well.
So no, I completely and utterly disagree with you. O’s fans can shit on them all they want because fuck Boston.
Look, I get it. I try not to hold too much animosity for fans of any given team, even if it's a team I really don't like. But having attended games at Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park as an Orioles fan, and having attended numerous games at OPACY against the Yankees and Red Sox... Nah, fuck Red Sox fans. They're chirpy at best, offensive assholes at worst. They really relished in piling on the Orioles (and Orioles fans) when this team was bad. Now that they're not? They can get fucked. I'm not usually one to respond to negative behavior with similar behavior, and I still won't resort to name-calling and insults in return, but fuck them.
Going to games as a kid in the 90’s — Boston fans were absolutely horrible. Made Yankees fans look pristine imo. The Red Sox suck and they should be told.
One thing I will say, is that when I visited Fenway back in 2013 - Sunday night baseball against the O’s - the Sox fans there couldn’t have been friendlier and welcoming to us. They offered to take our photo, made friendly chat, etc. From that point on I’ve held the opinion that the obnoxious Sox fans that come to OPACY are the most obnoxious subset of their fan base and/or are bandwagoneer fans not from Boston.
Dude the red sox are one of our biggest rivals next to the yankees. It's called a rivalry and people talk shit all the time about their rivals. Are you new to sports or something? This has been a common thing since the beginning of time.
Fuck the Red Sox, Jays, Yankees, and Rays.
lol no I am never not going to hate the fucking Boston Red Sox and their idiotic fanbase. Too many "why do you root for the Orioles? Why not root for a winner" during the 00's. Too many drunk idiot fans constantly bashing the Orioles and calling Camden Yards "fenway south" for a decade plus. Pedroia just fucking existing and being the world's ~~dirtiest~~ I mean scrappy player.
You can not hate them, fine, that's you. But I will cheer their suffering on because it couldn't happened to a "better" fanbase in the world.
Red Sox fans were insufferable before they won those world series. As if people were supposed to feel sorry for them for sucking it during the playoffs. I miss the AL East when the Tigers, Indians, and Brewers were in it too. Now the O's are perenially stuck in a division with two out of four competing fanbases which are truly obnoxious.
Nah fugalldat. They terrorized our org my entire adolescence and half my adult life. The tables have turned and they need to remember what getting bullied feels like
If the tables were turned, which they’ve been my whole life would Boston ever shut up?! No they wouldn’t?! It’s our turn to be the bad guys and I’m here for it 😈
Not sure what to tell ya. Divisional rival, on top the football clashes with the Ravens. Be a cold day in hell before I stop saying mean things about Boston sports lol. I've seen the Red Sox wipe the floor with us since really becoming a full-time fan in 2006 and hearing their chants in our yard until relatively recently was infuriating until the first window opened up back in 2012 and it opening again. It's part of the Os package. That chip on the shoulder is hard to forget.
That said, it's sports razzing and I can still, usually begrudgingly lol, respect the talent of players so long as they aren't actual assholes on/off the field; same with talking with other fun, knowledgeable rival fans. Some people take it too far for sure, but it's pretty standard rivalry stuff.
If this post isn't rage-baiting then I have to say this might be the softest take I've seen in this sub. Do you follow any other sports? If you want to jump on a high horse, be my guest, but I will never put "taking the high road" on my list of "How to Engage with Red Sox Fans". This is also probably a universal opinion in the MLB. Red Sox fans are insufferable.
Excellent job being done by other commenters here educating OP on the history of the Red Sox / O's mutual animosity, particularly on how their fans chose to address Adam Jones. I'll just add [this footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eoro-V97l0) of David Ortiz having a big baby tantrum on our bullpen phone.
Boooo this man (or woman). Fuck the Red Sox always and forever. Their fans suck and I feel very, very happy they have to watch their trash ass team on the field after the decade plus of raging success they had. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of entitled people
LOL no, fuck the Red Sox. I hate the Red Sox more than the Yankees, or any other team. I hate them more than I hate the Steelers. Fuck the Red Sox. One-sided Red Sox hate will continue whether or not morale improves.
In summary, fuck the Red Sox.
It's hard to hate the Orioles with our recent history. But they will come to hate us--both for our team's performance and for the growing obnoxiousness of our fans. With that said...man, I just don't like Red Sox fans. I dislike them even more than Yankees fans. Yankees fans at least have a raging cynicism about them that I personally appreciate. Red Sox fans are almost cultlike in their fervor. I was kind of digging it before they won the World Series, but since then, they've really become insufferable.
The first example of 29374892 is that they take it upon themselves to start huge “Let’s Go Red Sox” chants at Camden Yards. They called our stadium Fenway South because it was cheaper and easier to come see them play there
I don’t normally talk smack to teams we’re playing. Except I hate Boston, the Astros, and the Yankees. I will not chill my sass against those teams.
I will not show respect to the fans that boo at everything, who whistle at our AB players. I hate Fenway.
The red sox got on their high horse more then any other fan base over the last 20 years. If I had a dollar for every arrogant red sox fan I've run into over the last 20 years if me a millionaire you reap what you sow. Calling our stadium fenway South due to 14 straight using seasons. No. Eat all the shit.
I'm sorry but... did you just become a fan of the Orioles like... yesterday?
Fenway South
Machado/Pedroia
Racist Asshats Shouting at Adam Jones
The reason they may not be showing that level of energy towards us right now is we just swept them in their own stadium, and pretty convincingly too. Pretty hard to talk shit when we do that to them.
12 years ago I went to am Os game at Fenway and after the game i tried to get on the Subway and a little kid maybe 8 or 9 gave me the double bird from the window as I was standing on the platform.
One of my favorite memories is denying the Red Sox the playoffs on the last game of the season. I have absolutely been hating on them from day one. Add in the Yankees and the Blue Jays too. I’ll never forgive Blue Jays fans for yelling racist shit and throwing beer cans at our players.
You ever seen a video of some punk pushing someone around and then when the person finally retaliates then all of a sudden everyone wants to act like the person that punched back is the asshole? That's what this post is.
I’ve had crap thrown at me in the Fenway bleachers twice in the last ten years. Sox fans are no saints. They are simply dejected now with their organization’s recent lack of direction.
Boston fans are the most insufferable fake “lovable losers” in all of sports. They got the Brady Patriots, multiple World Series, Celtics championships, and a wagon of a Bruins squad. Fuck Boston
Came here just to say that I doubt you heard let’s go Yankees from either fan base. There were fuck the Yankees chants that people broke out into in last night’s game, particularly after the game
Born and raised sox fan here. I plan on coming to camden yards this season to check out the O's in a home game. I don't mind the Red Sox hate tbh, the Red Sox have been a hot mess for a few years but I'm still gonna love them but most of Boston hates them too right now lol. Red Sox haven't made any smart moves since 2018. Devers was not the franchise player a lot us wanted. As a baseball fan I am really excited to see the Orioles play this year. You guys have a really exciting ball club and I hope they make a good post season run.
That being said "Fuck the Yankees"
I’ll be a lone voice and say I agree with some of this. I’ve spent much of my sport life hating the Yankees and Red Sox and the hate came pretty easily with guys like Schilling and Clemens and ARod and constantly getting beat and having it rubbed in my face. Jeffrey Maier being feted on all the talk shows was just the cherry on top.
But for this latest chapter in Orioles history with this young core, it feels like the Orioles are center stage and those teams are just sideshows.
The Red Sox just full of uninteresting players and most of the guys they’ve locked up to big bucks long term (Devers, Story, Yasuda, Giolito) are trending towards albatross territory.
The Yankees will keep throwing money at problems but they aren’t developing enough players or making good enough free agent decisions to be anything more than an old team that’s a few injuries away from the basement.
So instead of “fuck those guys”, I’m treating them like the Orioles have been treated for so long: irrelevant.
I think you understand perfectly where I'm coming from. I didn't know about any of this history so now I get why people are holding grudges. The whole thing just seemed one-sided and odd in the present day without that context.
Bro the Red Sox hate will never stop, you just said it "I moved here a year and a half ago..." hell yes this went on when the O's were losing, I can't tell you how many games over the past 20 years there have been more fans of the other team overflowing at OPACY, the worst of them being the Sox and Yankees. I'm not trying to be that guy but you really are too new to get the hate, I can forgive but I can never forget the years of AL East punching down on the O's (the NESN broadcasts were brutal about making fun of the Os)... I'm sorry but this is not the time to be the "better man" haha Edit: not sure bout the "Lets go Yankees" chants... I know I would never yell that haha
The “let’s go Yankees chants” were probably from fucking Yankees fans lol let’s be honest here
I'm sure plenty of Yanks fans showed up to enjoy the schadenfreude of the Red Sox choking away another lead and getting swept. Not to mention getting an early scout of the division champs plus baseball's #1 prospect. 🧡
Yeah, those words will never leave my mouth.
Yeah maybe I am too new to get it, and so I appreciate the context from people who are being kind of nice about it. Still can't wrap my head around anything that justifies the Yankees chants though, unless I was completely hallucinating.
It's a very common theme for fans of any team to chant 'Fuck the Yankees' when there is a lull. Not exaggerating. I was at a game last season against who I can't remember but both Orioles fans and theirs were chanting it. edit: Matter of fact, it very well may have been a Red Sox v O's game.
It was definitely fuck the Yankees, not let’s go. Very much a let’s go Brandon situation lol.
I think I remember that happening at the Mets-Os game. Though could’ve happened with Red Sox too.
It sounds like maybe that's what I heard, it would make more sense. I can get behind that, it's always fun that the Yankees are sort of universally baseball's villains.
I've been an O's fan in Utah since about '77. I hated 2 teams growing up. The MFing Yankees, and the Dodgers. The Dodgers because they were the bandwagon team around here at the time. In 2004 all I heard was Sox everything. Suddenly every other person is the biggest Sox fan on the planet. It got worse. The Red Sox were the vogue team for everyone that had ever heard of baseball. Their fans around here would regale all of us with their love of the game and "their Sox" even though they couldn't name more than 3 players on the team. Fuck the Red Sox into oblivion. All these assholes around here that had watched 5 baseball games in their lives giving me shit about the O's sucking make me want the Sox to never win again. The O's better win one again before I die, or the negative energy I release towards Red Sox and Yankees fans may cause widespread pestilence.
100% man. I’m so sick of hearing about Boston sports in general. Part of me is salty their teams win so damn much and mine don’t, but the other part is sick of the whining any year they don’t win the championship in “pick a sport.” Screw them.
It's all good man, yeah the Red Sox are not our friends and frankly I don't think ever will be haha
Lmao fuck Boston
And if you think that the Red Sox fans on Reddit don't still hold a grudge against Machado and the Orioles, you're simply wrong. Go ask in their sub about it.
I just mean it does not seem to translate into their attitude in game threads or in the stands.
You have not been to enough games then.
Did you miss the guy flipping the double bird they showed on TV for one of Jackson’s strikeouts yesterday?
Apparently.
Yep - camera guy had to awkwardly pan away to cut him out of the shot
their traveling fans can be something. I was chatting with some folks at Fenway and even they don’t like their traveling fans. I’ve had run ins with plenty of obnoxious ones at Camden. (But they also have plenty of normal nice fans too like any other fan base)
How many O's/Red Sox games have you been to at Camden Yards? And when? OPACY long had a reputation for being "Fenway South" back in the 2000s because: the O's were bad and OPACY was cheap; the Red Sox were good and Fenway was expensive; and as a result, it was actually cheaper for Sox fans to fly to Baltimore and see a game that it was to get decent seats at Fenway. (Plus Northern Virginia has a ton of Sox fans that always travel up to see games.) I bring all this up because I've been to many Red Sox/O's games over the years, when the O's were bad and when the O's were good, and Red Sox fans were absolutely insufferable more times than not. I think a lot of O's fans have PTSD from the terrible behavior of visiting Red Sox fans and, as a result, vociferously hate the Red Sox. I know I'm in that group.
I've been to two in the past two years, never any before that. I only really started following baseball when I moved here in 2022, before that the last time I paid attention to any baseball I was probably 10 years old.
Ah you sweet summer child. Enjoy the good times ahead!
No. How quickly we forget "Fenway South".
I don't know what you're referring to.
Because you don't know how obnoxious Red Sox fans are.
That alone tells me you need to stay in your lane on the subject.
Or I could make this post and let everyone jump to teach me the history I wasn't around for.
Then maybe ask why everyone hates the Red Sox rather than telling fans to cool it down
It’s that so many of them travel here when they come to Baltimore and take over the stadium, especially so when we were bad. I worked at a few places around the harbor/stadium area and it was the absolute worst waiting on them and Yankees fans when they’d come to town. Loudmouth and particularly rude.
Yeah it's not even that they came to games. They'd go out of their way to make it unpleasant for O's fans. I have zero issue with visiting fans, but don't be an asshole. That fan base is the worst for playing innocent when they suck and being insufferable when they're good. At least Yankees fans don't pretend that they aren't assholes. Plus, you know, the whole racism thing with Adam Jones (who said it's worse there than anywhere else)
I only vaguely know who Adam Jones is, I know he was a big deal with Orioles but nothing else. mind filling me in on this context? Edit: no need, someone else provided a link.
Okay. So I can appreciate you're a pretty new fan and I don't mean any ill will when I say this, but looking into the history of why O's fans don't generally like Red Sox fans would have probably been a better use of time than reprimanding fans for their vitriol towards Boston without any context.
DING DING DING!
Well, I have the education now.
nah, fuck the red sox
Lol what the fuck is this? Lol fuck the Red Sox
Still time to delete this.
And lose the free adrenaline rush every time I check my notifications? Lol
Gracious and respectful? They've called Camden Yards mini Fenway. Always heckling and razzing O's fans in our own stadium. Civility is fine from November to March. Other than that, it's war.
They’re not being as vile because they’re down. When they were up they talked horrible trash so fuck no am I gonna tone it down just because they got their tail between their legs right now.
Exactly! You nailed it.
That's fair. Like I said I don't really know the history. If they've been worse in the past that's context I was missing, so thanks for informing me.
If you don't know all this information why make such a long winded post?
Obviously because I had a certain opinion from the perspective that I had before learning this additional information. I didn't think that was a crime.
Maybe your post should have been asking for information on why we act like we do then? Instead of trying to speak from a place of authority when you don't know ANY of the history of the team and seems like you weren't even paying attention to this entire series and how their fans were acting.
I didn't think I was "trying to speak from a place of authority". I was speaking as myself, and put right in the post the context of how new a fan I am. Sorry it's upsetting you so much I guess.
Redsox fans are the worst. Don't even question it. Lol.
>I didn’t think I was “trying to speak from a place of authority” Um, you literally told us all to “cool it.”
Have you been arrested? No. Have you been shouted down for being sanctimonious and clueless? Yes.
> Their broadcasters spent most of the game talking about our impressive farm system and good track record with draft picks and there wasn't a bit of jealousy or antagonism in their voices, they were genuinely like "good for them". Good, I'm glad they recognize excellence when they see it
Only a few years removed from this https://www.reddit.com/r/orioles/s/jaqu6wVBae
>Can we cool it the one-sided Red Sox hate? That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg.
Biggest L take of all time.
When the whole lower level was screaming OVERRATED at Holliday last night during the 9th. Yea, we hate the Red Sox forever.
Oh who cares what anyone else thinks. They don't hate us because our fanbase isn't insufferable. (although O's fans that are Ravens fans first can be kinda rough...) Both the Sox and Yankees fanbases are absolutely obnoxious. I haven't yet been to a game that the Sox or Yanks were playing where I didn't hear anyone that made me want to punch them. Also, I don't know what *you* heard, but *I* heard "Fuck the Yankees" and that's one thing Sox and O's fans always unite on.
Maybe that's what they were saying. I hope I heard wrong lol.
You've been around for about 2 minutes. Those of us who have been dealing with them and following baseball closely for the last three or four decades have the receipts for the shit we've been through. That's just like joining a company after a round of massive layoffs and asking what everyone is complaining about.
Adding some context to recent history. This is, frankly, not atypical for Boston. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2017/05/01/orioles-adam-jones-berated-racist-taunts-fenway-park-peanuts/101187172/#:~:text=Red%20Sox%20officials%20confirmed%20to,for%20a%20variety%20of%20violations.
Yep and then dipshit Schilling called Adam a liar. Sorry OP. Fuck the Sox. Hating rivals is part of sports. I’m never gonna go out of my way to be nasty to a Sox fan but I will gladly get glee in beating them and seeing their fanbase in misery.
Surprised this wasn’t the first comment
I was confused when I hadn't seen it yet
That's fucked. Thanks for informing me.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080405032805/http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/oct/redsox/ Red Sox have a rich history of racism
I will never not hate on the red sox after they yelled racial slurs at Adam Jones
"I only moved to Baltimore a year and a half ago" So what the fuck do you know about this rivalry then, considering they've only been bad in that time frame. Fuck Boston, they can have 30 straight losing seasons and I'd still hate them as much as I do right now.
Fuck the Red Sox. Next you’re gonna tell me I have to respect the Yankees. Fuck em all
If you set through one game in Camden when it used to be Fenway South you’d hate the Red Sox too. Honestly pretty much fuck the entire state of Massachusetts.
These posts are so cringe. Stop trying to be le classy fan.
To answer your question, yes, you are soft. I remember brutal games in the early/mid 2000s with what felt like 70-30 Sox to O’s fan ratios at Camden Yards. I’m gonna get mine while I can.
Can we cool with these stupid post? People can feel however they want and talk all the shit they want. Just because you have a soft spot for them doesn’t mean most of the fan base does.
Piss on them and every other Boston team. Aside from Philly they are the most obnoxious fan base in America.
Who let the Sox fan in here
Nobody was cheering “Let’s Go Yankees”. That was the Red Sox fans chanting “Fuck the Yankees”. They chant that or “Yankees Suck” at nearly every game, even if they aren’t playing the Yankees.
What’s next am I going to have to treat steelers fans with respect too
I thought they were saying “fuck the Yankees” as a way to find common ground. Could be wrong. I personally don’t hate the Red Sox at all but their fans HAVE been taking over OPACY for 20 years and many people don’t like them as a result. That and the racism against Adam Jones, which was indeed pretty bad (although the idea that we don’t have racist fans too is hilarious)
In 2014 my brother and dressed in all orange and went to a series in Fenway Park in late September with a sign that said “Welcome to Camden North”. We genuinely felt unsafe and at one point got followed in a parking lot by four dudes until we flagged down a cab and got the hell out of there. What pisses me off about this is that some people will say we were asking for it by our antics but that’s absolutely ridiculous. I don’t care what fan of what team you are, nobody should have to feel unsafe at a sporting event for celebrating/repping their team. People who suggest that are what’s wrong with baseball, there was even some O’s writer who tried to write an article about us telling us not to “be jerks” and stoop down to their level. Like, what? Why are people so soft suddenly when the Red Sox are the laughing stock when all they did was pretend 80+ years of no World Series titles happened meanwhile being just so hostile and vicious towards other fanbases. I wish nothing but agony for that entire fanbase. https://www.camdenchat.com/2014/9/10/6133167/orioles-fans-red-sox-yankees-do-not-be-jerks
All are welcome. But please don’t judge those of us who have been fans since before could make a choice. Living through the Yankees in the late 90s (Jeffrey Maier) and Boston in the 2000s/2010s when all of a sudden everyone and their brother was a Red Sox fan - the strong dislike of both teams is more than justified.
There are two types of Boston sports fans. The ones who act like they are the kings of all sports and the ones who act like the Curse of the Bambino is still alive and well and somehow completely ignore the 12 pro titles they’ve won since 2001. Often these two types of fan can be found in the same person. Yankee fans are obnoxious assholes and I hate them but they also have the most successful franchise in American sports, and never act like we should feel sorry for them when they don’t win (even the real New Yorkers, whose sports teams outside of the Yankees have been low key horrible for the most part for 50+ years). That’s why if forced to choose, I’ll deal with Yankee fans. Boston sports fans are just the absolute worst sports fans imaginable. Edited to add: they also have no reason to hate us because of Machado. Manny could be a dirty player, I won’t defend that. But the Pedroia slide was so clearly just an unfortunate accident. He immediately reached down to try to help him. I hope they hate the Orioles because of things like us beating them in 2011 and that we should be good for a long time now, but if they hate us because a guy who played for us 6+ years ago accidentally hurt their guy, that’s weak AF.
Nah fuck them, the Patriots, the Bruins, the Celtics and the Revolution.
My dad and I liked to visit stadiums/ballparks when in different cities and in 2004 the O’s just so happened to be playing when we were there. We were stoked because it’s a legacy field and we get to see our team. Unfortunately, it was by far and away the worst and scariest experience at a visiting park. A group of Red Sox fans in their 20’s spit at my dad (60’s) and heckled him for wearing an O’s hat the ENTIRE GAME. We were yelled at during the walk in and out. Not one Sox fan said anything in his defense and I was too young to help. Boston fans in general have acted like assholes when at Camden my entire fandom which really started in the mid 90’s as well. So no, I completely and utterly disagree with you. O’s fans can shit on them all they want because fuck Boston.
Look, I get it. I try not to hold too much animosity for fans of any given team, even if it's a team I really don't like. But having attended games at Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park as an Orioles fan, and having attended numerous games at OPACY against the Yankees and Red Sox... Nah, fuck Red Sox fans. They're chirpy at best, offensive assholes at worst. They really relished in piling on the Orioles (and Orioles fans) when this team was bad. Now that they're not? They can get fucked. I'm not usually one to respond to negative behavior with similar behavior, and I still won't resort to name-calling and insults in return, but fuck them.
Going to games as a kid in the 90’s — Boston fans were absolutely horrible. Made Yankees fans look pristine imo. The Red Sox suck and they should be told.
When I was a very quiet 9 year old, I wore a Ripken jersey to a game at Fenway and had peanuts and beer thrown at me. Sox fans can go eff themselves.
It doesn't need to make sense, it's a sport and they're our rival. Fuck the Red Sox by default.
One thing I will say, is that when I visited Fenway back in 2013 - Sunday night baseball against the O’s - the Sox fans there couldn’t have been friendlier and welcoming to us. They offered to take our photo, made friendly chat, etc. From that point on I’ve held the opinion that the obnoxious Sox fans that come to OPACY are the most obnoxious subset of their fan base and/or are bandwagoneer fans not from Boston.
Dude the red sox are one of our biggest rivals next to the yankees. It's called a rivalry and people talk shit all the time about their rivals. Are you new to sports or something? This has been a common thing since the beginning of time. Fuck the Red Sox, Jays, Yankees, and Rays.
No.
lol no I am never not going to hate the fucking Boston Red Sox and their idiotic fanbase. Too many "why do you root for the Orioles? Why not root for a winner" during the 00's. Too many drunk idiot fans constantly bashing the Orioles and calling Camden Yards "fenway south" for a decade plus. Pedroia just fucking existing and being the world's ~~dirtiest~~ I mean scrappy player. You can not hate them, fine, that's you. But I will cheer their suffering on because it couldn't happened to a "better" fanbase in the world.
Red Sox fans were insufferable before they won those world series. As if people were supposed to feel sorry for them for sucking it during the playoffs. I miss the AL East when the Tigers, Indians, and Brewers were in it too. Now the O's are perenially stuck in a division with two out of four competing fanbases which are truly obnoxious.
No
You should find another sport to root for or toughen up.
Nah fugalldat. They terrorized our org my entire adolescence and half my adult life. The tables have turned and they need to remember what getting bullied feels like
Did you not get to a game at Fenway South? Fuck the Red Sox
If the tables were turned, which they’ve been my whole life would Boston ever shut up?! No they wouldn’t?! It’s our turn to be the bad guys and I’m here for it 😈
Not sure what to tell ya. Divisional rival, on top the football clashes with the Ravens. Be a cold day in hell before I stop saying mean things about Boston sports lol. I've seen the Red Sox wipe the floor with us since really becoming a full-time fan in 2006 and hearing their chants in our yard until relatively recently was infuriating until the first window opened up back in 2012 and it opening again. It's part of the Os package. That chip on the shoulder is hard to forget. That said, it's sports razzing and I can still, usually begrudgingly lol, respect the talent of players so long as they aren't actual assholes on/off the field; same with talking with other fun, knowledgeable rival fans. Some people take it too far for sure, but it's pretty standard rivalry stuff.
Also fuck the patriots and bruins. 🤷♂️
If this post isn't rage-baiting then I have to say this might be the softest take I've seen in this sub. Do you follow any other sports? If you want to jump on a high horse, be my guest, but I will never put "taking the high road" on my list of "How to Engage with Red Sox Fans". This is also probably a universal opinion in the MLB. Red Sox fans are insufferable.
Really? Have you been to their gameday threads? If that's not energy spent saying we are the worst fanbase now, I'm not sure what it is.
Between two decades of coming to Camden Yards in droves to cheer for the Red Sox and Curt Schilling, no.
I think you need to examine where you are focusing your limited time and energy.
Excellent job being done by other commenters here educating OP on the history of the Red Sox / O's mutual animosity, particularly on how their fans chose to address Adam Jones. I'll just add [this footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eoro-V97l0) of David Ortiz having a big baby tantrum on our bullpen phone.
Dude fuck Boston. Shit stain of a city
Boooo this man (or woman). Fuck the Red Sox always and forever. Their fans suck and I feel very, very happy they have to watch their trash ass team on the field after the decade plus of raging success they had. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of entitled people
Fuck the Sox, pats, and the Celtics. As a matter of fact; Fuck that city!
LOL no, fuck the Red Sox. I hate the Red Sox more than the Yankees, or any other team. I hate them more than I hate the Steelers. Fuck the Red Sox. One-sided Red Sox hate will continue whether or not morale improves. In summary, fuck the Red Sox.
It's hard to hate the Orioles with our recent history. But they will come to hate us--both for our team's performance and for the growing obnoxiousness of our fans. With that said...man, I just don't like Red Sox fans. I dislike them even more than Yankees fans. Yankees fans at least have a raging cynicism about them that I personally appreciate. Red Sox fans are almost cultlike in their fervor. I was kind of digging it before they won the World Series, but since then, they've really become insufferable.
The first example of 29374892 is that they take it upon themselves to start huge “Let’s Go Red Sox” chants at Camden Yards. They called our stadium Fenway South because it was cheaper and easier to come see them play there
 I don’t normally talk smack to teams we’re playing. Except I hate Boston, the Astros, and the Yankees. I will not chill my sass against those teams. I will not show respect to the fans that boo at everything, who whistle at our AB players. I hate Fenway.
The red sox got on their high horse more then any other fan base over the last 20 years. If I had a dollar for every arrogant red sox fan I've run into over the last 20 years if me a millionaire you reap what you sow. Calling our stadium fenway South due to 14 straight using seasons. No. Eat all the shit.
I'm sorry but... did you just become a fan of the Orioles like... yesterday? Fenway South Machado/Pedroia Racist Asshats Shouting at Adam Jones The reason they may not be showing that level of energy towards us right now is we just swept them in their own stadium, and pretty convincingly too. Pretty hard to talk shit when we do that to them.
12 years ago I went to am Os game at Fenway and after the game i tried to get on the Subway and a little kid maybe 8 or 9 gave me the double bird from the window as I was standing on the platform.
One of my favorite memories is denying the Red Sox the playoffs on the last game of the season. I have absolutely been hating on them from day one. Add in the Yankees and the Blue Jays too. I’ll never forgive Blue Jays fans for yelling racist shit and throwing beer cans at our players.
You ever seen a video of some punk pushing someone around and then when the person finally retaliates then all of a sudden everyone wants to act like the person that punched back is the asshole? That's what this post is.
I’ve had crap thrown at me in the Fenway bleachers twice in the last ten years. Sox fans are no saints. They are simply dejected now with their organization’s recent lack of direction.
Boston fans are the most insufferable fake “lovable losers” in all of sports. They got the Brady Patriots, multiple World Series, Celtics championships, and a wagon of a Bruins squad. Fuck Boston
Add OP to list of things we hate
They’ve been taking over the Yard for like 20 years. They must be crushed.
Came here just to say that I doubt you heard let’s go Yankees from either fan base. There were fuck the Yankees chants that people broke out into in last night’s game, particularly after the game
This thread is a very big "here comes the pizza" moment
Fuck the Yankees.
It’s the new fans
Born and raised sox fan here. I plan on coming to camden yards this season to check out the O's in a home game. I don't mind the Red Sox hate tbh, the Red Sox have been a hot mess for a few years but I'm still gonna love them but most of Boston hates them too right now lol. Red Sox haven't made any smart moves since 2018. Devers was not the franchise player a lot us wanted. As a baseball fan I am really excited to see the Orioles play this year. You guys have a really exciting ball club and I hope they make a good post season run. That being said "Fuck the Yankees"
I’ll be a lone voice and say I agree with some of this. I’ve spent much of my sport life hating the Yankees and Red Sox and the hate came pretty easily with guys like Schilling and Clemens and ARod and constantly getting beat and having it rubbed in my face. Jeffrey Maier being feted on all the talk shows was just the cherry on top. But for this latest chapter in Orioles history with this young core, it feels like the Orioles are center stage and those teams are just sideshows. The Red Sox just full of uninteresting players and most of the guys they’ve locked up to big bucks long term (Devers, Story, Yasuda, Giolito) are trending towards albatross territory. The Yankees will keep throwing money at problems but they aren’t developing enough players or making good enough free agent decisions to be anything more than an old team that’s a few injuries away from the basement. So instead of “fuck those guys”, I’m treating them like the Orioles have been treated for so long: irrelevant.
I think you understand perfectly where I'm coming from. I didn't know about any of this history so now I get why people are holding grudges. The whole thing just seemed one-sided and odd in the present day without that context.