For starters, the sellout streak in fenway started with the new ownership group and in 2003 and it has been a long time since attendance at fenway looked empty.
Last I checked your team won by 2 games for the AL east, and won a close game 7 to go to the world series. So how the

are they over rated. The sox had a lot more injuries then the rays did. You had kazmir out for a couple weeks, crawford and longoria for about a month. Percival (who is old and has injury history) was on the DL 3 times. Pena missed about 2 wks Those were your key injuries. The sox had beckett gone for over a month, dick k for almost a month, wakefield for several weeks,schilling was our # 3 going into the season and didn't pitch. and our 5th starters was a revolving door of players that got hurt between clay buckholtz and bartolo colon. That is just our pitching staff. Lowell missed over a month, ortiz was gone almost 2 months, jd drew missed almost 2 months, lugo (who sucks but was our starting ss) spent almost 1/2 the season on the DL. So to go threw those injuries, to go into the playoffs without lowell, and a injured beckett how the

are they overrated when they go to a game 7 and that doesn't even count the bitch we had to deal with manny "I don't want to play here anymore" ramirez.
We have never had a 150 million payroll, get your facts straight. We were 4th in the mlb with 133 mill. Assuming we don't sign any big free agents we will drop to close to 100mill and be close to the middle of the pack (a tad ahead, but it depends on what some other teams do this offseason)
So please oh wise one explain to me how they are over rated. Most analyst picked the rays to win, and it was about 50/50 for game 7. Where the

is the over rated espn bullshit you claim.
I keep hearing about people bitching about sox fans, but really where are these sox fans that have there heads up there ass. I am very critical of our team and players. Most of the people that post here are fairly critical of the team. It is the nature of fans in the new england area. Is it our fault espn focuses on the sox/yanks. They get ratings, so why the

wouldn't they cover them. Without a doubt I am aggressive in defending my team. That is solely from going to college in the mid 90's and dealing with my best friend (who is now a DA and loves to argue) who was a diehard yank fan like yourself with the rays before they went on a string of great seasons. I also don't like listening to blanket statements or incorrect statements. IE 150 million payroll, over rated team, fans with head up there asses, the fact that ratings are going to be up this year even know tv viewership is down, and baseball is down even more, the fact that you claimed that game 7 was the highest ALCS ratings wise, which was only true if you consider tbs numbers and not include fox/abc/nbc/cbs numbers. I debated with you a year or 2 ago about the rays. You will all high and mighty with your offense and elija dukes and dimitri young. I agreed you had a good team, but didn't have the depth of starting pitching with a weak bullpen. Your team fixed those area's dramatically (including a

ing steal of garza and bartlett for young) and that is why your team will be in the running/favorite for the al east for the next couple of year. Stop throwing bullshit out and I won't call you on it.