Since 2001 NO city, I mean NO city has Come Close To this City's Teams.....
THERE CAN BE NO LEGITIMATE DEBATE ABOUT IT....BOSTON IS TITLETOWN.....
Let's give Detroit it's due...the Red Wings and Pistons are awesome teams....but let's be clear....Detroit has NO claim to being title town....Hockey Town ----probably but that's it....the Tigers suck, the Lions are worse and the Pistons won only one as that team is presently configured....
How about New York....the Giants deservedly won their Superbowl but beyond that let's see....the Yankees are a good team with an aging but still powerful lineup and NO pitching staff. The Spanks have not recovered from the single most humiliating defeat in organized professional sports history....you may remember that 2004 ALCS....I know all of you suddenly quiet Yankee fans remember it don't you?...how about those Knickerbockers.....they may well be the worst franchise in organized team sports given their money and the absolutely horrible teams they have paraded onto the Garden floor...oh wait...how can the Knicks be the worst franchise ever when they play in the same market as those Mets....the second highest payroll in baseball and they lay all of the blame for their '07 colllapse on a manager and not the dipstiick who overpayed Pedro, Santana, Glavine (we know he's gone but he took a lot of $ while he was there and didn't do ####), Beltran, Delgado and that ace Wagner....wanna fire someone who IS to blame....schedule a 3:00 a.m. meeting with Omar while you still have a fan or two left....and then there are the Rangers and who really cares...
How about L.A.? Well the Lakers had a nice run until they played a complete team and they promptly crapped out....I remember just two short weeks ago a lively interview with Kobe and Stephen A. Smith where Steven A. pressed Kobe as to why it wasn't fair to compare Kobe to MJ and at the time I wrote it off as a good reporter just asking the questions because many many people had started to believe that Bryant deserved such a lofty comparison....and maybe Kobe will still someday be able to be compared to Michael...just not at this time....Kobe was so outplayed by the Celtics trio of Pierce, Allen and Posey that he was barely the best offensive player on his own team....he was clearly out played, out hustled and outschemed by tthe Boston Celtics to the point where his legacy has been tarnished to a great degree..Michael Jordan would have carried his team to a win over Boston this year, there is NO question about that...but back to my point...LA is never really eligible to be Title Town without a real baseball team and without an NFL franchise....Christ even Charlotte and Jacksonville have teams.... what? you say that the Dodgers are a real baseball team because they signed Joe Torre? To that I say, grow up...as good a manager as there is in the game does not make the Dodgers are real team. Fans don't care, teams NEVER win (Kirk Gibson ain't coming through that door kids) and did I mention that people in LA have NO passion for sports....How many titles have the Dodgers won? Nah, LA is not close to a candidate for Title Town USA....and what did Shaq say...."Kobecouldn't do it without me...." Love it, LA blows.
How about Chicago....although the Blackhawks such #### and the Bulls are a disgrace, and the Bears are moving backwards again. They do have the White Sox who have won a World Series and the Bulls of Michael and Scottie were all world....but what have done for me lately....you KNOW the Cubs will screw up somehow and someway and while Ozzie will probably get the Southsiders a legitimate playoff shot...even if they win they really don't matter...even in Chicago...what's that old line...."there's nothing lonlier that being a southsider in a city of northsiders"....so The ChiSox are not given any credit here until their own city backs em just a bit....so Nyet to Chicago...and Philly, Saint Louis, Dallas, San Antonio (one team sports towns just don't count), Saint Louis, Baltimore, Tampa Bay, Miami, Cleveland, Cincy, Oakland, KC, New Orleans, Houston or Seattle....nope not one of these cities can say that they have won world champioships in Football (3) Baseballl (2) and Basketball (1) since 2001....only one place on the planet can say that and that's Boston.
Oliver Wendall Holmes once called Boston the "Hub of The Universe" because the city is the eductaional center of the Country with no fewer than 100 colleges in the city and its thriving suburbs....and those colleges include Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Northeastern, Emerson and Boston College to name just a few. Add to that an extremely low crime rate, a bevy of world class hospitals, four gorgeous seasons and the birthplace of our democracy and you have a city that is truly the best place to live on the East Coast.
It is almost unfair that the Red Sox are by far the best team in baseballl over the last 5 years, that the Patriots are still the best team in football and that the Celtics have now resumed theiir rightful place atop the NBA and won their 17TH title....a feat that no other team has ever topped....to put that in perspective.....that is 17 more titles than Cleveland, Denver, Charlotte, New Orleans, Dallas, Utah, LA Clippers and New Jersey Nets have combined to win....
Then there are the Red Sox....again in first place, again with the best rotation in the game, again with out any hole in their entire lineup, great manager, great closer, sold out EVERY game for decades.... wealthy and committed owners and a fan base that dwarfs the Yankees...if you doubt that for one minute try to buy a single game ticket for next season from the Red Sox ticket office....it will take an act of Congress and a great bit of luck. Then go to Baltimore (AKA Boston South) and see how the BoSox fans outnumber O's fans ...they have utterly destroyed the Yankees who simply will never recover from the beat down they took in '04....manager's gone, owner's feeble and his nit wit replacement is managing the team, they hired a manager who is so obnoxious that he got himself fired in the same year as he was named Manager of the Year in the NL and then there's the GM who must bear reposnibility for Kevin Brown, Carl Pavano, ElDugue, Alphonso Soriano, Roger Clemons third comeback tour and the whole notion that Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes were legitimate major leaguers....what you ask have the Red Sox done with young talent???? Jonathan Papelbon, Dustin Pedroia, John Lester, Jacoby Elsbury, Jed Lowrie, Clay Buckholtz, Justin Masterson, Manny DelCarmen, Craig Hansen are ALL playing and the team won last year's Fall Classic by destroying the Rockies....are you kidding me? It is amost unfair....the Red Sox are still in firts place and Curt Schilling is out, David Ortiz is out, Daisuke Matsuzaka is out...Manny is out...Coco is out....the Cubbies lose Zambrano and they WILL collapse....This is the most talented team of young players to play in 25 years....
I will not offer any excuses for the Patriots....they lost and they deserved to lose to a team that is now a long shot to return to the playoffs. The Pats are again favored to return to the Superbowl and only a fool like Tom Jackson would seriously question that...they have quietly reloaded a secondary that was not very good last year and they picked up three solid linebackers in the off season...anybody wanna wager with me? I say they win 12-14 games and retuirn to the ALCS where they will beat Indy, or Jacksonville....as usual.
Now there are the Celtics who have a real small window because they have not shown that they can figureout how to draft NBA players from the lower end of the first round....but...for noow they will likely return to the Conference finals next year and unless Cleveland can figure out how to win on the road the C's should return to the finalls to face NO, Utah or San Antonion...it won't be the Lakers...Kobe will see a lot of Tom Thibodeau's defense next year the way that Kurt Warner got figured out after Bellichik figured him out in 01....Let's face facts...Luke Walton, Vukocic, and Radmanovic are not legitimate NBA players....they were useless in the Finals and then their is the quickly aging and slowing Dereck Fisher and the riddle that is Lamar Odom....plus can someone tell me why Pau Gasol gets such high praise....he's is everything we expect from a European player...he no like hitting...him no like physical ball....him no play defense.....so the Lakers won't be having to worry about another Boston Beat down next year....if New Orleans gets a better 2 they will be the team....or at least I hope they will.....
So my little pinheads....Boston simply rules the sport's universe and yes I did not mention College sports because there is not a single college team that can beat even the weakest professional team at anything so it don't count.....
Good stuff, Boston is a great place to be for sports fans right now.
I wouldn't concern myself with the comments of three drive-by knuckleheads that don't even make the effort to write a complete sentence,never mind a blog post.
The Haters will be coming out from under their collective rocks. They will lash out at you and then slink back into hiding like the cowards they are
Be strong my brother Bostonian and take solace in the fact that you live in the worlds finest city.
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"yes I did not mention College sports because there is not a single college team that can beat even the weakest professional team at anything so it don't count....."
If I'm right, a lot of those Boston area championships came from people whom also played college.
I stopped reading when I got to the part where it says LA fans have no passion. You've obviously never been there. Just more mindless drivel from a homer who thinks Baaaaahston is the center of the universe. Enjoy your lucky 5 year run while you can. Until your city can sustain CONTINUED excellence over DECADES of sport, you haven't a leg to stand on when you call Baaaahston titletown. And college sports don't count? More fans attend college football games per event than any other sport in the country except NASCAR. Just because Baaaahston sucks at collegiate athletics doesn't mean you have to put it down. Oh wait, you guys are good at hockey...whooptie #### doo.
Oh and LA doesn't have a real baseball team? The dodgers may be in the midst of a 20 year drought right now but hey, sure as hell doesn't compare to 86 years. And the Angels won the world series in 2002. Good work on that one, space cadet.
this guy is a joke!!.. one of the worst blogs i ever read!!..
no real baseball team in L.A.??!!.. then i guess they're all made of plastic dummys and nobody goes to dodoger or angels game??!.. L.A. fans dont care??!!.. red sox fans have certainly not been selling out for decades!!.. you guys averaged 1.5 million a year for most of the 70's and 80's!!.. Dodger games have been averaging 3 million fans since around the same period!! THATS SELLING OUT!
and i guess u forgot about 2002 when lakers and angels won that year!!. .huh??.. maybe that wasnt real either huh?...
boston titletown? not for those three superbowls they were won half way between the r.i. state line and boston.i'm a pats/red sox fan and have been since the 60's.but i also know distances from pawtucket to foxboro and foxboro to boston.although i have to say boston is or was party town.park the car and you are within walking distance to some of the best bars and restaurants.but the best meal for the buck was a trip up to hill top steak house in saugus.oh yea it sure was partytown but can't be titletown.well til the pats move back to boston and i don't see that happening anytime soon.
Great post. I'm a fan of a lot of Teams/Towns and I see no reason for others to wear you down. I think the Red Sox AND Celtics have proven for decades that they do indeed belong in that title of Title Town, just like LA, New York. I'm from the Midwest and I guess I call it like I see it.
Ahh...I figured the most heat would come from New Yorkers....LA has what baseball team? The Dodgers are and have been HORRIBLE....the Angels do not sell out playoff games, I know because I was out there for four years.....LA is not a sports town, you not only do not qualify as "Title Town" you don't even qualify as a sports town....games are empty after the sixth inning, you could not support TWO football teams, were the Laker fans really into any of the three games at the Staples Center in the Finals? Yeah, keep convincing yourself that you can hang...like I said....three superbowls...Two WS wins, NBA Title...when you can say that...we'll talk....oh wait you have no football team and no real authentic Major League Baseball Team...the Dodgers play like their fans watch...half assed....yuk yuk.....
#### Bahsson! I wouldnt want to live there and pay your exhorbatent taxes. Enjoy living in the land of liberalism...a place where all social problems are solved by raising taxes! You also have the most embarassing senator in the world, esp. considering how great his brothers were.
College sports dont count? You are the educational mecca of the world as you just stated but all your NCAA teams suck!
The Patriots? They have been disgraced on a national stage! Your cheater of a coach walked off the field like a big baby pouter! Wahhh, we got beat after starting 19-0...PRICELESS!!!
You losing liek that proves that there is a God and that justice will some day come...it took a few years, but he was exposed for what he is...a cheater
RedSox - best team in baseball, but 5 years ago you were still a joke up their with the lovable losers, the Cubbies.
Celtics - thanks to another David Stern publicity stunt to make sure his big market teams became contenders again...you got KG for squat! Enjoy your win cuz this core of players wont last more than a year or two
Marty, the Red Sox didnt win any titles till recently!!! How can you say they have proven for decades that Bahston is a title town?
Also, the Celts havent been contenders since 1987! Thats 2 decades! The Bulls won 6 titles during then, Detroit won 3, the Lakers have won 4, Houston - 2!!!
RIGHT ON! he is exactly right no other city even comes slose to Boston as far as sports teams go.
By Boston I actually mean all of new England which (of course) includes the Patriots, If the New Jersey meadowlands Jets can be considered the "New York Jets" then tyhe New England patriots should be considered a Boston team.
I'm from new Hampshire and consider myself a Boston Teams fan because there are no Professional teams North of Boston within the New England states. Actually come to think of it, there are no Hartford Whalers anymore so Boston is indeed the location of all New England sports teams.
The only misfiring plug is the Bruins, and it HAS been 3 years (in a row) that the Patriots have not won the Superbowl, but that streak will end shortly enough.
Boston is the ONLY place to be a sports fan lately. I feel sorry for the fans of LA teams who have the most expensive market base in sports but still can't seem to put together a championship team in ANYTHING.
Go dude...give 'em hell
Nice blog... good reasons for your line of thinking... except that Green Bay will remain the NFL's Titletown until another team earns more championships (the Pack have 12). It wasn't just Superbowl 1 and 2 that earned Green Bay that title... it was the fact that they had a total of 5 national championships in the 60's. They are the only team in the NFL to be national champions 3 times in a row... and they did that TWICE in their history.
I agree that Boston is the NBA's Titletown... the 60's Celtics secured that for Boston. As for the Red Sox, 2 world series championships in the past 90 years hardly earns them that sort of consideration in MLB. That glory would have to go to your favorite team to hate, the New York Yankees. Sorry, I know that hurts as a Red Sox fan!
Enjoy your ride Boston because it will soon end. Here's why.
Red Sox: Man Ram and Big Papi are getting older and Schilling's done. All those years of 130+ games behind the plate will catch up to Varitek at some point. They're BARELY the best team in their OWN DIVISION. They won't repeat this year. Too many other good teams that are gunning for the Sox.
Celtics: the Celts have MAYBE two years before they have to rebuild. They'll be losing some key free agents once they decide they want to get paid. And the East will be tougher this coming season.
Patriots: the Pats won't win a Super Bowl WITHOUT a solid running game and defense. Their defense is old, aside from Jerod Mayo. They have a suspect secondary at best. Maroney has durability issues. He's talented, but is often injured. As good a QB as Tom Brady is, he NEEDS a competent running game. When they were ripping off Super Bowls, they had a SOLID ground game, first with Antowain Smith, then Corey Dillon. And who knows when Randy Moss will go off the deep end like he did with the Raiders. As the old saying goes, "You can't change a zebra's stripes." I halfway expect Moss to go off the deep end at some point this year.
Quoting your bio: I am an avid sports fan who gets a little tired of the same old same old from bloggers and media clowns alike. Let's be honest and take a look at sports without the homervision goggles on.
If this blog doesn't smack of homerism, then the word should be taken out of the dictionary. This blog SCREAMS homer!!
The city of Boston definitely deserves their due. It's their time definitely. Enjoy it while it lasts.
But while you chowder heads act like this has never been done before and your city is setting new heights...get a grip.
I see you guys have 6 titles for the decade. Very nice and respectable.
While here is something to shoot for.
Los Angeles during the 80's: 9 World Championsips
Lakers-5
Dodgers-2
Raiders-2
Looks like your current amazing decade run is 3 titles short of Los Angeles. And I don't think any teams or organizations of LA during that time had their titles tarnished by being caught cheating. Good Luck catching LA!!!!
Its high time the Bostonians had something to celebrate! Winnning superbowls is great, but taking the world series, then the NBA championship is Icing on the cake!. NOW lets see if the BRUINS can come up with the CUP!
Umm, the LA sports area has 5 major sports championships for this decade (Lakers-3, Angels-1, Ducks-1)....and this doesn't include the Galaxy, Sparks, or the numerous NCAA championships this city crowns year in and year out. Boston being titletown is like saying Jamaica is a great bobsleding nation! Give me a break!
...just pull up any almanac and see how many Football championships USC has or how many NCAA Basketball championships UCLA has. If college doesn't matter, I guess ESPN shouldn't have included the numerous college towns like Lawrence, KS, Gainsville, FL, etc.
Dude, your blog is a joke! Your facts are terrible! Your justification is mindless! Maybe you should go to college.
Here's the deal...I am a lifelong Bostonian and have suffered more than most of you can understand with decades of Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins futility...so please spare me the nonsense about my bias....I am more critical of Boston teams than I am of your sorry assed teams but when things are going like they are in Boston I may gloat just a bit....don't like it....don't read it.
