It’s been three days since the massacre that Ohio State endured and already so-called “Buckeye fans” have jumped on the “FIRE TRESSEL” Bandwagon through forums and blogs. If your team eats shit game after game after game and the only bowls you’re seeing on a regular basis are the ones you eat your cereal out of, then yeah, petition to fire the head coach.

But this is an elite program that has struggled with other elite programs as of late. That’s what happens when you’re one of the best. You play other great teams and by God, let the best team win.

To the posters on the following forums and blogs: GET OFF OF TRESSEL’s NUTS!

FireJTressel

Bucknuts

TheMaddenlab

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Please, just stop.

I’m borderline embarrassed to be a Red Sox fan these days — almost to the point of saying, “I miss Dan Duquette’s (non-existant) marketing staff.”

Eric Wilbur of Boston.com (ironically, the birthplace of Sox Saturate: Soxuration) eloquently described what the force-fed ‘Red Sox Nation’ has cultivated into, much to the despise of our non-bandwagon generation of fans — pre-2004. Fathers, mothers, aunts, cousins- everybody. They relish all of it. They love to flash their fancy World Series merchandise, talk about Jacoby’s cuteness and buy into becoming an ‘official’ bandwagoner.

It’s the sole reason why the Red Sox went from most beloved to most despised in just a mere four years.

It’s a capitalistic cult, saturated beyond the boiling point.

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