Albert Breer wants proof about the n-word at Fenway

Rhody, that guy's story is exactly the kind of confirmation you were looking for earlier in the thread.

 

In what other MLB markets would this story have a similar level of plausibility? Plausibility isn't proof, but the reaction from the WEEI crowd seems to be not only that it never happened, but that the perception of the city is completely out of line.

 

Totally agree. But now it's looking like that source wasn't there. So back to square one.
It probably happened. I still hope it didn't. But is "probably" good enough to print nowadays?

@DanielSimpsonDay - it's plausible in every market. Can you think of one place that doesn't have an ugly racist history or an area within its city where people wear racism like a badge of honor? This could happen in any MLB city and I think most would just say yep, that happened.

 

I've been to every kind of sporting event Philadelphia has to offer, and I'd bet my life savings I heard at least one racial slur at every single one of them.

 

You defending Boston by saying other cities are just as bad is the most predictable result ever.

 

Boston is notably racist and always has been. Ain't no accident that they were the last team to integrate. In surveys of American cities' segregation, they are always at or near the top. And ... most of us have probably seen this, but it is one of my favorite news photographs ever. From the school busing controversy, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1977:



"Everybody's racist" is the new "everybody cheats."

 

Ive always wondered why that is. Like what factors made it so? It's a town that's rife with college students. Is it it a class thing? Like the working class locals resenting the liberal elites? Like what factors separate it from Cleveland, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago or other northern cities? It's always puzzled me, but there's no denying it.

 

LOL. Read "Common Ground." Boston liberals supported busing in word but not deed.

 

Instead of sending me off to read a book, maybe ya could summarize your LOL.

 

Only difference between the working class and elites in Boston is the latter could afford to move when the policies they fought for got too close to home.

 

OK, but how is that different than other cities? what is the unique factor about Boston?

 

That's a good question, Boogie.