but it’s well past it’s prime and for someone who is well over 6’, it’s hard to sit in a lot of the seats

I like Fenway, despite its oldness. Some people I know were at this game, too, ironically. It wasn’t pretty for KC, though, that’s for sure. Tony Pena Jr. is horrible, and they’ve just traded for (sigh) Yuniesky Betancourt to play SS.

Bruche Chen. Argh.

I recently had a situation not unlike that. I went to the gold cup matches last week at RFK to watch USA/Honduras with the undercard Grenada/Haiti. I picked up a Haiti flag on the ground and pretended to have a serious routing interest for Haiti.
Nobody called me out on it until I got off the Metro and one of the Metro workers saw my flag and came up to me to shake my hand and reveal he was from Haiti and had seen the match. He asked if I was from Haiti, and I said no, but I have relatives there, which makes me look like a complete liar because a. I’m white and b. I’m Jewish and really look the part too. Now, I figure there is a small minority of white people i Haiti and probably a miniscule amount of them are Jewish, so if I was telling the truth I really was quite an oddity, which I wasn’t.
He asked me If I spoke French and I said ‘yes, but it’s very spotty’, which was another lie. By that time I was out on the street and politely said ‘good night’ to him. I thought I handled it well but I felt pretty guilty about the entire thing.

Anyway, anybody else got stories of white lie allegiances?

I don’t recall of anytime I experience something like this, but I don’t think I’ll be attempting to root for some other team anytime in the near future. :D

But just think- this must be how PHN and MFY “fans” feel at all the games they attend. “Uh, yeah, I love JETER. And, uh, sure, my Dad’s from Boston! Uh-huh!”

To root for the Royals if I saw them on the road(other than OPACY or Philly obviously).. I live next to Wilmington and the Blue rocks have been a Royals affilate since the begining(12 years) So I could’ve always used that one if they happened to be the team I saw at Fenway..
 For a few yeas till they became free agents, most of the Royals were old blue rocks! (Beltran, Damon,etc) and they still have a great blue rock in Zack Greinke(SHOCKED they still do and he hasn’t been traded yet..)
Anyway, glad to hear you enjoyed yourself! Great Story!

A few times I have turned the tables on other team’s fans before a game. Just casual conversation if you happen to be next to them in a bar or restaurant before a game.

I can tell you from experience that if you see an O’s fan wandering around Boston while the O’s are in town, you can be pretty damn sure they are genuine. I’d suspect that is the same for Royals fans as well since they too don’t have much of a bandwagon.

I am a huge fan of shenanigans and I approve of this story!

but does anyone know where i can get a good nick markakis poster? (preferably online-i don’t exactly live close to any o’s team stores)

I’ve impersonated a Phillies fan many times. I got a Phils hat the first time I went to the Vet with my girlfriend (now wife), who is actually a die-hard Phillies fan (and accross-the-board Philly fan), and when we had our 10 game plan at the Vet I’d sometimes wear it, but a lot of times I’d wear O’s stuff, too, and as football season approached I’d wear Eagles stuff (growing up in York, the O’s were my local baseball team, but the Colts disappeared before I really had an interest in the NFL. I latched onto the Eagles. It’s been a rough ride, but I’ve never looked back.)

I rooted for the Phillies, but I never claimed to be the biggest Phillies fan in the world. When the O’s played at the Vet in interleague, there was no conflict of interest at all — I was always in black (and orange) and proud of it.

Except on a road trip to Yankee Stadium in 2001, I did become a die-hard Phillies fan. I bought a (very, very cheap) Phils jersey and cheered my ass off for the Phillies (who blew a big lead and lost), and high-fived people I didn’t know. Of course, all that deep hatred of the Yankees was accumulated as an Orioles fan.

One particular interleague series kind of ruined the Phillies for me. It was at Camden Yards, and as the mediocre Phils pounded the hapless O’s for 3games, there were 30,000 Phillies fans and 10,000 Orioles fans. It was as bad as a Red Sox game, and I was kind of annoyed because during that season if you went to a game at the Vet, there’d only be 20,000 people there.

I think this story lends further credence to the idea that the jerks who come to Camden Yards for Red Sox games are largely bandwagon fans and not some traveling pack of loyalists. I get tired of hearing the myth about all the fans traveling to Camden Yards from Boston because it’s cheaper, easier to get tickets, etc. Perhaps a few fans do that, but it’s a small fraction of those who invade Baltimore for each Red Sox series.

Granted, there are plenty of jerks in Fenway – just look at all the drunken Red Sox YouTube videos or revisit Sawx & Dogs’ blistering of Luke Scott for talking about crude fan behavior in Boston – but the bandwagon jumpers, who feel the need to be louder than everyone else to prove their loyalty, are the biggest clowns.

Glad to hear you avoided the clowns and were able to fake your way through conversations with the friendly fans.

To go to Fenway or to pose as anything other than an Orioles fan, but hey thats just me. Being a Eagles fan, I miss the Vet as shitty as it was. Maybe this fall you could go to the Linc as a Cowboys fan and see how well that goes over for ya. I don’t think you’ll come home with such pleasant memories.

There is definitely the makings of sitcom in there somewhere. Glad you enjoyed yourselves… LIARS!!!

I was actually in Boston this past weekend. I went to Saturday Night’s game against the Royals. The Red Sox won 1-0 on a Pedroia double off the Monster in the 8th.