Comments on: Look, over there! On Deadspin! Or: about last night http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/12/look-over-there-on-deadspin-or-about-last-night/ Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:27:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: sonomasox http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/12/look-over-there-on-deadspin-or-about-last-night/#comment-32532 sonomasox Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:55:28 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2007/04/12/look-over-there-on-deadspin-or-about-last-night/#comment-32532 The comments you get over on Deadspin are akin to the treatment Renteria got in his year and you're not even a first timer at the blog. The Fenway "faithful" are tough but some of those comments rank up there. I was at the 21-9 playoff game against Cleveland in '99. I remember being up something like 14-3 and the Sox went through 4 pitchers in the 5th or 6th. The tribe closed it to 14-7 and it felt like at a funeral. The whole place went all this is the apocalypse, accept it silently. Of course, the bottom of the inning resulted in 3 or 4 more runs and we were all back at the carnival. The suffocating psychosis of fandom is tough. <i>I don't even read the comments. I've learned my lesson -- when people comment on places like Deadspin (or even Slate), for whatever reason they tend to me more vitriolic than you might expect. But I can imagine. I'm sure there are plenty of quips about my name, also... -- Seth</i> The comments you get over on Deadspin are akin to the treatment Renteria got in his year and you’re not even a first timer at the blog. The Fenway “faithful” are tough but some of those comments rank up there.

I was at the 21-9 playoff game against Cleveland in ‘99. I remember being up something like 14-3 and the Sox went through 4 pitchers in the 5th or 6th. The tribe closed it to 14-7 and it felt like at a funeral. The whole place went all this is the apocalypse, accept it silently. Of course, the bottom of the inning resulted in 3 or 4 more runs and we were all back at the carnival. The suffocating psychosis of fandom is tough.

I don’t even read the comments. I’ve learned my lesson — when people comment on places like Deadspin (or even Slate), for whatever reason they tend to me more vitriolic than you might expect. But I can imagine. I’m sure there are plenty of quips about my name, also…

– Seth

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