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During every Mariners / Red Sox game that I have ever attended, the pseudo Boston masses have taken up the chant, “Let’s go Red Sox.”  It’ s a cutting edge, complex, and beautiful chant.  Lets go….. Red Sox.  For most Mariner fans sitting around this, it is just annoying.  It’s not offensive really, only tiresome.  We certainly aren’t going to take up the Mariner flag and start shouting back at the Red Sox fans.  Not until we get that written apology in the mail about that whole Sexson/Bavasi debacle.  Basically we are just counting down the seconds until it ends. 

But you know who takes offense to this chant?  Kids.  Sadly, kids are not savvy enough to know that the Mariners are probably the worst run team in the majors right now.  They don’t know about the huge payroll, lack of production, failure to develop talent, or attitude problems that plague the team.  Unlike the rest of us, they are not embarassed at the sight of the hometown 9.   So, whenever the pro-Boston chant gets started it is promptly countered by 25-100 incensed 10-year-olds who respond on the exact same intellectual level of the adult Red Sox fans with, “lets go Mariners.” (note the subtle differences.  Where there once was “Red Sox” there is now “Mariners”). 

 Not to be outdone, the adult Red Sox fans raise their voices, attempting to drown out and overpower the children.  No dice.  The kids are too smart for that and know that if they just keep chanting, “lets go Mariners” over and over again, that sooner or later, the Boston fans will run out of beer and/or have to go take a chew.  The end result is 100 idiots chanting “Let’s go Red Sox,”  100 kids chanting, “lets go Mariners,” and 100 adult Mariners fans considering leaving in the 3rd inning.

This cycle will happen roughly 45 times throughout the course of one baseball game.  It makes all Mariner / Boston games an absolute delight. 

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