[White_Orpheus]

Afraid people are going to jump on the band wagon? Boo hoo. Who cares if other people like your team? Shouldn't you be happy about it? I live in San Francisco and practically no one cares about the Giants here. When we have a surge of bandwagon fans (i.e. during the 2002 season), we see it as a blessing that people are starting to care about the team. I think part of Red Sox fandom is feeling sorry for yourself. It seems that Sox fan's relish the part of being such an "underdog" and if the mainstream starts to care about their team, they see it as contamination of the sacred Red Sox self-pity. I think having the Red Sox win wouldn't be a blow to the fanbase because there are posers, but it definitely would deplete a lot of the the old fans simply because they couldn't whine about not winning a series in years.