So, apparently these people love the Red Sox
Saturday marked the union of Brookline residents Danny Goulet and Laura Holway, two diehard Red Sox fans whose devotion to the team and its related charity – the Jimmy Fund – is only surpassed by their devotion to one another.
I get it, people love the Red Sox. Apparently some people love them just as much as they love one another. It is something I guess I will never fully understand myself. I mean, I love the Beatles, but I didn’t show up to my wedding dressed as John Lennon (though in hindsight, I guess I may have looked a little bit like Ringo).
I was prepared to make fun of this wedding because it seems to be a delusional event ripe for ridicule. I mean, they don’t play for the Red Sox, they watch the Red Sox. These, I hope you understand, are two different things. But I understand the allure of Red Sox fandom and I would never begrudge a couple who combined their wedding with a charity event to raise money for the Jimmy Fund. So I will set aside the ridicule for another post. Probably something Dracut related.
But I have to say one thing….this picture is from their backyard. A backyard which looks like this…all…of…the….time. Seriously, resisting the urge to just make fun of them mercilessly is making me use strength I didn’t know I had.
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Without that white dress, I would have assumed she was the Green Monster.
You guys realize that’s a wiffle ball field right? Awesome.
Is it awesome?
how you resisted the urge to make a total mockery of this wedding is beyond me. what a joke, and what a lame way to have to remember your wedding day for all time. i guess the only redeeming factor is that they were also raising money for charity, but really they could’ve done that anyway without looking like a couple of morons. i am all for fandom and having a passion you can’t live without (my personal obsession of choice is U2), but like Scott said he didn’t dress up like Lennon on his wedding day, and I didn’t make my husband dress up like Bono on our wedding day (though some days I am sure I wish he looked a bit more like Bono). I just don’t get people who take their personal obsessions so far as to let them infiltrate every fiber of their lives and being.
Scotty,
That’s awesome on so many levels. I don’t know where to begin.
Exhibit A of why Red Sox fans have morphed into the biggest douchebags across the 4 majors.
Dang, judge much? They look happy, and the combined their wedding with a charity event? Jeez, what douchebags. I’m sure they’ll regret enjoying themselves and helping others on their wedding day, instead of blowing huge wads of cash on themselves in a manner very similar to 87% of the rest of Americans. I’m sure glad I can bond with other married men – ‘oh hey, you wore a tie too? We should totally hang out together.’
Timmy, my wedding reception was in a pub…so I can judge the shit out of this.
…not the charity part. That was a nice touch. But since you have the 87% stat in front of you, why not look up how popular charitable donations have become in lieu of center pieces and some of the other redundant bs.
Timmy, if you are calling me out, read the post again. I said I was going to ridicule them but held off because they are doing something for charity and I also said I understand some people are FANS. So the douchebag comment is pretty unwarranted. At least in this case it is.
Scott, not you, the post was fine, more Gisella and peterican (am I reading that right)?
Look, I read the article. They apparently bought a house with a mini-fenway whiffle ball field in the backyard, have a charity event every year revolving around a game played in the field…a charity event in honor of friends lost to cancer…and then decide to get married during one of these events. Maybe I’m a sucker but that seems pretty damn stand-up and, well, nice.
So judge away if you want to, then I’ll judge you for judging, etc etc. Good times.
But calling them douchebags or morons? Can I curse on this blog? Because those are the only words I can think of at this point.
We prefer that people do curse. It gives us some street cred.
Peter- No way are real Sox fans bigger DB’s then Skankees fans (ever been to the Bronx?) or those reh-tard’s in the Black Hole in Oakland.
Pink Hat wearing, wave inducing, Sweet Caroline singing, drunk on a cell phone “am I on NESN” db’s aren’t fans. They’re at the most expensive outdoor bar in Boston. There’s a difference and they are the reason I don’t go to more Sox games.
My brother, who now lives in Texas, seems to think that the problem with Red Sox fans is that too many of them are women. Women he adds that don’t really know much about sports but act as if they are experts.
It is a theory I think that has some valid points.
Scotty I’ve sat next to what I like to call “Peter Gammons illegtimate child” a few times. She’s got a pink hat on, she’s got the red sox logo tramp stamp, she’s memorized the stats spewed from today’s big show on the ride in. She’s double fisting Sam Adams. She won’t shut up. She sucks at life.