Comments on: The Pink Hats are Taking Over, Part I

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:27:11 +0000

It is hilarious that people are so outraged. Why are some hats blue with a red B? I know they are “traditional” but blue isn’t one of our colors?

I agree hats should be worn in team colors, but women haven’t been wearing hats that long anyway, and the pink ones are made to fit our heads……………

Anyway, we should be happy we are winning again.

By: Paul D

Paul D — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:28:56 +0000

The real trivia behind the Brunansky catch of Ozzie Guillen’s fly ball is not what happened on the last game of 1990 regular season but the fact that the night before the same situation was at hand. 2 on and 2 out with Ozzie at the bat. Ozzie hit a fly ball to the same exact spot in right field which dropped in for a double scoring the two runs for Chicago who went on to win the game. I was there and was so bummed out feeling cheated that I did not see them win the East that the next night I snuck in by flashing my wallet at Gate B at 5PM as if I worked there then for 2 hours waking around with a cardboard box as if I were working. I sat in the fifth row at the Redsox batting circle the entire game and never saw the Brunansky catch as the right field corner kinks in and the view is obstructed up the line. My memory is of the look on Wade Boggs face after the catch was made. God Bless the Pink hats. The too much Testosterone, all talk, Gerry Callahan, never got bloody knuckles pussies can make them out to be some sort of fad but the ladies of Red Sox nation are the pride of Boston.

By: dd0ck

dd0ck — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:31:16 +0000

You’re right Mike. What’s with this idea you need to earn your right to be a fan of a team? It’s a damn baseball game and if someone wants to watch one game a year, buy a pink hat, and sit there and text her boyfriend the whole game that’s her problem.

I don’t think we run a risk of losing out our die hard fans because the Red Sox has started exploited more sources of revenue. Hell, I embrace it. The more money, the better.

By: Mike M

Mike M — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:24:48 +0000

Pink hats = $$$ = Manny = Ring. “Die hard fans” never got us anything except second place.

By: Liz W.

Liz W. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:27:36 +0000

As a die-hard Red Sox fan, I have to say I hated the Pink Hat when it first showed up. I thought that every girl who wore won was just trying to be a Sox fan. But an aunt of my die-hard Yankee fan husband gave me one as a joke to welcome me into the family in 2004 (she’s also a Sox fan). I wore it every day during the 2004 playoffs and look what happened. I still attribute our win to the Pink Hat - so maybe it’s not so bad after all. But even that experience didn’t convert me to a Pink Hat girl…it only comes out of the closet for the playoffs.

By: John D

John D — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:10:38 +0000

Grab yourself a pink hat there superfan. Tom Brunansky’s great diving catch in the last game of the 1990 regular season (as any real Red Sox fan would know), was against the White Sox, not Toronto. It was a line drive down the right field line off the bat of current White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen.

By: Paul Flannery

Paul Flannery — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:16:03 +0000

Good points, Kevin. And just so no one misinterprets the meaning of the Pink Hat series: It’s not a slam on female fans. Lord knows there are a great number of smart female fans, and just as many moronic male counterparts. It’s not the hat, it’s the hyper-aggressive marketing that plays to the casual fan at the expense of the die-hards, of which there are many, female and male.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:27:35 +0000

I understand that many women that wear pink are diehards that just happen to like pink. It’s also obvious with the bandwagon effect illustrated by the likes of Fox Sports’ Julie Zaleski so eagerly referring to Chicago’s team during the 2005 Playoffs as White Sox Nation, ESPN bringing out Sports Nation and General Mills foods declaring their cereals as part of Whole Foods Nation that the marketing powers that be have watered down our Red Sox Nation into a generic catch phrase that steals away the passion behind the origins of “Red Sox Nation”. Used to be two passionate fan bases that had this insider feel to them- Raider Nation and Red Sox Nation. Bandwagon fans want to be a part of something special, perhaps just to look cute and stylish, maybe attract men in their pink shirts and hats. Again, I’ve met many women and girls that know how to keep a boxscore and still wear pink, but it’s generally agreed Real Fans wear their team colors. So, I created a shirt for SupahFans that adds to the debate: Real Fans Don’t Wear Pink. Discuss.

By: Paul Flannery

Paul Flannery — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:56:22 +0000

Fornya, that’s a very good point and a careless mistake on my part. Go Rock Cats. And yes I know they were the New Britain Red Sox back then.

By: Fornya

Fornya — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:58:50 +0000

Not to nitpick here, but a “longtime” Sox fan would remember that their AA team wasn’t always in Portland, hasn’t been there for very long, and would have more accurately referenced either Trenton or New Britain. The Sox AA affiliate moved up to Maine in 2003, only one short year before the World Series win and the proliferation of the Pink Hat Brigade.