After reading Daniel Rubin’s column entitled Enough Already! A fan defects, the only thing I could really think is how much of an idiot this guy is and after reading the comments section of other Philly fans agreeing with and defending him, there is only 1 conclusion I can come to. Philly fans just plain suck, and are jealous of not only New York, but now Boston as well. Their inferiority complex has reached a new high (or is it a low?)

Let’s dissect this idiot’s arguments one by one and see if he is really making any sense at all.

…some clown in a backward Boston ball cap and an over-stuffed Big Papi jersey chanting on the subway: World Series champs! World Series champs! “This isn’t the Green Line, pal,” I found myself muttering, advising him he was about to arrive in South Philly, not Kenmore Square.

OK, so we open by pretty much saying, the entire basis of this column is based on one drunk guy in an Ortiz jersey on the Subway. Way to pick some concrete evidence here! And you know which fans are way more obnoxious at road games? Phillies fans at Fenway.

A Phillies fan next to me tried to be helpful as well: “If you guys win, you be careful on the subway ride back.”

So you’re annoyed by a fan on the T, and are happy when someone threatens to start a fight? Not too responsible I’d say.

Later, he goes on to talk about how he wants out.

Now I want out. I sensed something had happened to me on the subway Tuesday and then in the stands when Boston bandwagoneers started chanting “Beat L.A.” as if neither baseball nor Philadelphia - championshipless since 1983 - mattered.

How many times have I heard chants of “Let’s go Eagles” in the middle of June at a Phillies-Sox game in Fenway? The answer is All of Them. Like I said, aside from Yankees fans, Phillies fans are by far the worst out of town crowd who know more about the alcohol content of the beer they drank than the starting pitchers. That is neither timely (football chants in June?) nor even meaningful, since the Eagles lost to the Pats the year they actually made the Super Bowl. If we are still saying Beat LA when we meet up in the World Series (Cole Hamels said that, not me), then we can talk. But until then, the Celtics are awesome and I’ll stop saying Beat LA when the Celtics aren’t in the SportsCenter headlines anymore.

I watched them stand and cheer when the Sox did something well, then I started to enjoy it as the Phillies fans booed them down, like dogs spraying their turf.

Again, you are blaming Sox fans for cheering when their team does well? When should they cheer? Or is the rule no cheering unless you’re cheering for the home team? Are we to take the lyrics of Take Me Out to the Ballgame literally? (root for the home team, if they don’t win its a shame?)

Winning has made Red Sox fans losers.

To this statement, I will simply laugh. A total oxymoron is not evidence of anything and only hurts your arguments.

Add the three Super Bowl victories by the Patriots and this week’s Celtics championship, and enough already. It’s not title town. It’s entitled town. And smug is a hard sell.

Smug, or confident? This is not smug, its what happens when you win. You are even saying this in your article. Smug would be thinking we’re better simply becuase we’re from Boston - but that isn’t it. We’re better becuase WE ARE better. Our team won, yours lost. Thats how sports work - winners talk trash to losers. The fan base’s willingness to go to games, wait in line and buy $300 jerseys is how you build a winning franchise. Without the fan base, there is no team. Fans are as much of a part of the team as any other aspect, and to portray the passion of Red Sox fandom as a negative is just plain silly.

“Are we in the Red Sox section?” my son asked as the whole row in front of us erupted. So did those to our left and behind us. We sat quietly, alone. And I had the feeling that I was without a country.

But who’s fault is that? You couldn’t actually buy Philly tickets without buying a package or winning a lottery. Most of those fans that were cheering bought their tickets from Philly fans. So if Sox fans are so passionate that they will actually travel and pay extra money just to see a team that their own fans have no interest in, how can you hold that against us?

Me, I’ll have to move to Cleveland. They haven’t won a championship since 1964.

So in the end, all you are really saying is that you want to sit in a quiet stadium where nobody is winning so that way fans are more subdued. You know, when you get old and cranky like this there is this great alternative to going to the park to see a game. Its called television. If all you want to do is sit quietly and watch a game, try watching it on TV.

As far as berating fans for traveling with and watching their team, you have no argument. And don’t judge me, as a Sox fan, becuase of some drunk on a train in Philadelphia. He doesn’t speak for all of us. And to answer his ultimate question - How do I renounce my Red Sox Nation citizenship, well Dan, I’m pretty sure that with this column, you just did.

Make sure you never cheer for Papelbon, Pedroia, Buchholtz, Lester, Youkilis or Ellsbury again, becuase like you said, we just bought a winning team like the Yankees, right?

Stumble it!

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