Rachel Maddow should lay off bashing New York sports teams

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

I've been a daily listener of hers since Air America began. Her attitude towards NY teams is making it difficult for me to listen to her recently. Yesterday she wouldn't even refer to the Giants by name. She just called them the team that beat the patriots and actually play in New Jersey. Sour grapes does not become a woman of her stature and intelligence.


Rachel - I love you but you're alienating this long time listener.

[swag]

1. I wonder what her problem is.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

4. She's a transplant to New England as well

it's just sports for f's sake

[WyLoochka]

She lives in Massachusetts

at least on the weekends. That's where her heart is.

I never heard any of my relatives from MA or RI have one kind word to say about any team from NY or NJ - and vice versa - the NY relatives never say anything nice about a Boston or New England team.

I don't understand the expressions of perplexity here.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. she's from San Francisco originally

but whatever. I have nothing nice to say about Boston teams - though I liked the Celtics when I was very young. But I'm not a jerk about it.

[allthingsimportant]

2. lighten up

it's funny, she is a patriots fan. it is called sports..........

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. No I won't

but thanks

[Ian David]

3. It's only a fucking game. Give it a rest. Geesh! n/t

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. No I won't

but thanks

[Ian David]

8. I have no problem with New York sports teams.

It's the New Yorkers themselves who suck giant monkey balls.



:P

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

15. Ah - I see

very good

[Ian David]

17. Just giving you a hard time. n/t

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

19. I know

it's all good

[HuskerDU]

7. I have gained a new respect for Rachel Maddow. Well, she

was already high on my list but the fact that she is a sports fan makes her even cooler in my book. Yeah, she could be more sportsmanlike and congratulate the Giants fans, but damn all that and a sports fan too?! She's awesome!

And it is true, like it or not, about alienating voters via sport teams. Hillary would be doing a lot better in Illinois if she hadn't switched from Cubs to Yankees. I doubt anyone in NY believes she is a Yankee fan and Cub fans like me say, 'There is no coming back once you leave.' Not basing MY vote on her decision, but I know others have.

[Johonny]

9. I like her

compared to what was on in LA during her time slot before...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. Oh I love her show - it's a shame they canned Kent Jones

but I just hate the attitude she has towards New York sports. It's the ugly side of the NY Boston rivalry

[eleny]

10. A case of sour grapes

[LynneSin]

12. Technically they are the team that plays in the New Jersey

and I wish Corzine would demand that the Giants be called the New Jersey Giants

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

14. Why?

[YankmeCrankme]

16. Because they are based in New Jersey, not New York

Why don't we call the St. Louis Rams the Los Angeles Rams? Because they play in St. Louis NOT Los Angeles!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. I don't hear New Jerseyans calling for them to be renamed. Plus

they play in a swamp just over the river.

[LynneSin]

21. Yeah - go tell that to someone from New Jersey

It irritates the bejesus out of them.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

22. I live in New Jersey. Haven't heard too many complaints

but I don't talk to them much :D

[YankmeCrankme]

34. Many native New Jerseyians don't like it, some don't care.

I'm sure many of the New Yorkers who live across the river in New Jersey because they can't afford to live in New York support them being called the New York Giants, though.

Whether it's just across the river or all the way down to Bridgeton, New Jersey is New Jersey...Not New York. The same goes for the Jets, though no one wants to claim them anyway. Besides those two teams, that I can think of, has a name different from the state they actually reside in.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

36. I think if the stadium was in Newark and not justy over the river in the swamp it would be different

It's still in what is considered the New York Metropolitan area as are parts of CT

[LynneSin]

20. If New York wants their giants back - build them a fricking stadium

That's New Jersey that's been hosting both the Giants and the Jets for well over a decade I believe. It's just as annoying that the Live Earth people said that the US concert was held in New York - it wasn't. It was held in New Jersey. And it was very insultive that every musician (except a few like Bon Jovi) would scream "HELLO NEW YORK" when they were clearly entrenched in the swamplands known as the Meadowlands in New Jersey.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. If they built a stadium in Greenwich I wouldn't care if they stayed the NY

Giants. But that's just me.

[LynneSin]

24. Well perhaps you guys just don't get a shit about your team

Owners of the Eagles attempted to build the stadium across the river in Camden. Season ticket holders threatened to abandon their tickets if they had to cross the bridge. We were able to keep our team in the city.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. I've always had to cross out of state to watch my teams

doesn't mean that I love them any less

[Bluenorthwest]

26. sports fans...

are like opera queens. They don't understand the rest of us don't care about their trivial interests.
When political talkers talk sports, I switch to music channels and never come back. But that's me. I don't even know the rules of the games.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

27. We don't find it trivial

often it speaks of family traditions and regional pride - as well as having fun and being frustrated and nostalgic for childhood and the good old days. You know - human emotions. It's an interest that you don't share. It doesn't mean it's trivial.

[fascisthunter]

28. Then Tell Randi to Stop Bashing the Pats as Well

it's sports.... people take sides. Big deal....

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

32. It's the way you take sides

you don't have to be an jerk about it

I don't listen to Randi so I wouldn't know

[musette_sf]

29. how ya feeling about Eli's "tiny hands" today, Rache?

:evilgrin:

[devilgrrl]

30. New York sports fans should get over themselves

You won the Super Bowl - who cares what out-of-towners think?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

31. As a CT person I care

All teams are out of town for me

New England Patriots my ass.

[B Calm]

33. Sport teams in New York are similar to our politicans. We get the best

that corporations can buy.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

35. meh - whatever. Same with many cities' teams

nothing new

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

37. As a New Yorker and long time Giant fan, I couldn't give a flying

f*ck about her position on the Giants or sports in general.

I love knowing Rachael is there to get the truth out there. You should love knowing it too.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

38. As you can see in my post I am a huge fan and will continueto be

but her sports fan behavior is off-putting at best. It's really unbecoming someone of her class.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

40. As Joe E. Brown said at the end of Some Like It Hot, "Nobody's perfect!" nt

[SoCalDem]

39. Personally, I wish ALL sports talk was reserved for SPORTS stations

There are only about 15,876 of them on the air these days :)

[leftofthedial]

41. she tells it like it is

and the Yank-mes, Mutts, Joints, Nutts, knickers, Reindeers and Icelanders all suck.

Get over it.