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Irish Elk expresses its appreciation to Paul Lukas of Uni Watch who links here from his latest ESPN column. He's not down with the Boston Bluestockings, either.
I agree…about the bad mojo on the new uniforms. Dump em ! Baseball is a superstitious sport, and we like it that way. Burn those awful yankee-looking new uniforms, and our troubles will vanish too. Also agreeing…on the BLUE SOX. What a travesty !! It is a horrible pox on our beautiful Red Sox team to wear those ungodly blue sox in a game. What was management thinking ? Do they want to know what we think ? Really ? Then I will ask around at the games and get quotes and opinions, like pollsters do - but I bet most fans hate them.
For those of you on Facebook a new group has been launched that has the right idea: Ban the Boston Blue Sox