Red Sox fans can't take a joke

"Because, son, your team does suck."

The kid is 10 not 1. He knows what the word "suck" means in this context and I'll guarantee he's said it himself. You are acting like this kid has been in only two buildings in his life, home and church, and this is his first experience with the real world.

 

Oh for God's sake. So when you were 10, you smoked a pack a day, rode a Harley, and knew everything you needed to know about everything? THE POINT IS THAT THE KID REACTED, AND THE PARENTS DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING. Jesus Christ. If this kid were a Royals fan, you people would be stringing Duncan up from the nearest fucking tree.

 

I have an autograph of Jim Bouton that reads "Fuck You Shakespeare, Jim Bouton".....maybe i should have complained to my parents back then too--kids need to toughen up

 

And he's going to be used to kids saying "Red Sox suck" or whatever. But probably doesn't expect it from adults. Certainly not in this situation. So somebody, like a parent, should have talked to the kid, that's all. Only here would the 10-year-old in this situation become the villain.

 

I hate how vulgar the fans at baseball games have become. And Duncan's joke may have been more appropriate, if at all, for someone half a decade older. And maybe the kid and his parents were truly bothered by what Duncan wrote.

But given that these are the fans who constantly chant that A-Rod, Jeter or the Yankees suck and who wear t-shirts that A-Rod or Jeter are gay, it's seems a little disingenious for the Boston crowd to be righteously indignant about what he wrote.

 

It's more than a little disingenuous. But I just love how the logic goes here, "the kid went to Fenway, so he now has hair on his chest and a refined sense of irony, as well as the ability to discern bullshit from a real insult. If he doesn't, he's a pussy."

 

It's not like Duncan taught the kid a new word or anything. So big deal.

And now the kid will probably be on The View and Good Morning America this week, and the uproar will exceed all common sense.

 

Possibly true. But not the kid's fault.

 

No, I actually would have loved if this had happened so I could go to school and show it off. Duncan actually personalized the autograph and the kid will remember it for years. This kid is in for a lot worse if this type of things upset him.

 

Exactly. The kid reading the word “suck” suddenly equals smoking, drinking and riding motorcycles. Perfect analogy there.

In order to ascertain this autograph the kid had to walk past a t-shirt stand selling shirts with the words “Yankees Suck” and “Jeter Swallows” but, of course, the kid “doesn’t expect” it to come from adults. What a load of shit that is.

It isn’t the kid, it is the parents. Their dumb-ass called the paper. Their dumb-ass couldn’t tell their kid that it was a joke. Their dumb-ass dressed their kid head to toe in a Red Sox uniform for a picture for the newspaper.

Pathetic.

 

Exactly. It's the parents' fault. They're milking this for everything they get from it. Greedy, lying bastards.

This kid isn't 'damaged' by any of this. They just want to see what kind of compensation they can parlay from this event.