October 22, 2004
Sox in NYC?
I know it may be too much to ask this question of a New York blog, but are there any Red Sox-friendly bars in New York? I want to watch them play in the World Series with some like-minded Sox fans!
- Johnny D.
Yes, you can find Beantown exiles gathering in New York to cheer on the Sox. In fact, there is a special group for Red Sox fans in New York called The Blohards. Check out their website for events and sign up for updates. Redsoxconnection.com recommends several Sox-friendly bars in New York City, including the Riviera Cafe and Sports Bar (West 4th st. and Seventh Ave), Hairy Monk (3rd Ave/25th St), Harrison's Tavern (Amsterdam Ave/77th st), and Lion's Head Tavern (Amsterdam Ave/109th st).
Check out Bambino's curse to learn more about the alleged Red Sox curse.
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i think it's safe to say freddy's bar in brooklyn (485 dean) is sox-friendly.
one of the worst moments of my life as a sports fan was when i had to walk by riviera after game seven. brutal.
What about a Cardinals-friendly bar? I'm from St. Louis and would love to have a place to watch my hometown team!
We only have 23 days left, anyway, ti'l the universe ends.
In the film "Donnie Darko," you'll remember that the Tangent Universe opens up at midnight, October 2. After the clock hits 12 a.m., Donnie steps into a parallel universe in which anything -- subject to his growing realization of his powers -- is possible.
Last Sunday night, at exactly 12 a.m., Kevin Millar walked to lead off the bottom of the 9th at Fenway Park against Mariano Rivera. Until that moment, it was clear that the Yankees were on their way to a ALCS sweep, as is entirely consistent with the course of recorded Red Sox-Yankees history.
And yet, at midnight, it all turned wrong. After that, the impossible occurred.
It is my belief that we are now in a Tangent Universe, subject to the control of some Donnie Darko-like individual, who managed to negate all of baseball history -- and probability -- with the events of the last five days. And of course the Red Sox will win the World Series, stunning us all. How can the laws of nature be reversed like this?
Who this individual is -- I'm betting it's the batboy for the Sox -- will probably never be known.
As a Sox fan, I'm not quite if I approve of this bargain. But I'll be at the Riv anyway. I'm the guy in the bunny suit wearing a Trot Nixon red uniform top. Buy me a beer if you see me.
I've been to Hairy Monk's and I think it's the best. Riviera gets totally filled up over an hour before game time. Hairy Monk's is a little out of the way, so it's not quite as packed. Being there for the final out of Game 7 vs. the Yankees was one of the best moments of my life as a sports fan!
i think its safe to sat that EVERY bar in the city aside from the Rod Sux havens will be StL friendly
I call B.S. on sp - there are soooo many Boston transplants in this town, and so many people all over the country love the Sox because they represent lost causes. I would guess they are the second most beloved team in the country and the third most beloved in NYC (the Mets, remember them?) so basically every bar in the city will a little skewed toward the Sox given that most pure Yankees fans (you know, the ones that bother to hate the Sox) will probably still be licking their wounds (or the bottoms of their bottles of Jack). While many people like the cards, they just don't have the same level of popular support in the city as the Sox - and while there will be a lot of Yanks fans cheering on St.L. - yeas are always louder than nays. In addition - 1020 on Amsterdam all the way up on 110th is a good UWS place for the Red Sox Nation - considering the Lion's Den really, really blows.
They are actually closer to being the second most loathed team in the country than second favorite, because of all their small-market posturing when in fact they have the second highest payroll in the majors. The only reason anyone has any sympathy for them is because they are the Yankees' biggest enemy, and since everyone hates the Yankees so much, they benefit greatly from the "my enemy's enemy is my friend" philosophy.
While there are indeed far too many Sux fans in the city (most of them being Dominincans who only root for the Sux because they are essentially the D.R. All Star Team), I am standing by my prediction that our friend from StL will not have any trouble finding a place to cheer for his team.
I don't like, okay, I can't stand the Red Sox.
And I can't stand, okay, I hate the rowdy people whose dangerous behavior caused the cops to think they needed to use pepper spray to control parts of the crowd and killed the Emerson College student. And what kind of denial and desire to not face ugly reality are those people in who object to the Herald Tribune's printing of the sorrowful photos of that heartbreaking tragedy.
The newspaper should also print any photos they can get of those people engaging in reckless and criminal behavior that night in "celebrating" the team's division win over the Yankees.
All I can say, only Red Sux fans could make one yearn for the bridge-and-tunnel crowd! Why does Park Slope seem a little more Brookline than Brooklyn these days? Wednesday, we fled Freddy's to go to O'Connor's only to encounter even meatier heads rooting for the Red Sox. Guys actually hugged when the 27th out was recorded. What a bunch of Chowderheads! I should have known something was awry back on opening night in April when I saw Sox fans gathered at The Lighthouse Tavern.
nobody here calls it beantown.
nobody.