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Originally Posted by dauls

I have just heard that Fenway Park may host a pre-season football friendly on 21st July 2010 between Scotland's Old Firm rivals Glasgow Rangers and Celtic.
It'll be war and Boston needs to be prepared for the fans' post-match fighting.

Yes, this was reported yesterday by The Boston Globe. According to the president of the Fenway Sports Group, Sam Kennedy, "The reason why we are so interested in this game is because of the matchup ? Celtic and Rangers is a rivalry like the Red Sox and Yankees, a 100-year rivalry, and the unique thing is they have never played off Scottish soil. We wouldn't be interested in just any soccer match or event. When we go after games, we are focused on the blue-chip nature of events."

Also, said Kennedy, the Fenway Civic Association (the association of neighborhood residents and businesses) "received the proposal very, very well" during a meeting Thursday night. Apparently, the post-match fighting Dauls mentions didn't come up.

From my perspective, this is yet more proof that baseball is the greatest sport humans have invented. The evidence this time is that the football (soccer) teams are interested in "trading up" to play in a Temple of Baseball, but you don't hear any baseball teams expressing interest in playing, say, in Wembley Stadium.

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The Jays bullpen decided to lay a huge ing egg! Romero pitched an excellent game, giving up 2 earned runs in 7 innings(the Jays had a 3-2 lead at that time). The bottom of the 8th was horrible. The final ended up being 9-3 for Tampa Bay. Damn it!

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Bunting 101.

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[caldo2806]

Originally Posted by smc

Yes, this was reported yesterday by The Boston Globe. According to the president of the Fenway Sports Group, Sam Kennedy, "The reason why we are so interested in this game is because of the matchup — Celtic and Rangers is a rivalry like the Red Sox and Yankees, a 100-year rivalry, and the unique thing is they have never played off Scottish soil. We wouldn't be interested in just any soccer match or event. When we go after games, we are focused on the blue-chip nature of events."

Also, said Kennedy, the Fenway Civic Association (the association of neighborhood residents and businesses) "received the proposal very, very well" during a meeting Thursday night. Apparently, the post-match fighting Dauls mentions didn't come up.

From my perspective, this is yet more proof that baseball is the greatest sport humans have invented. The evidence this time is that the football (soccer) teams are interested in "trading up" to play in a Temple of Baseball, but you don't hear any baseball teams expressing interest in playing, say, in Wembley Stadium.

ahahaha mate shut it baseball the greatest game invented lmfao its your baseball teams that want rangers and celtic to play at their grounds because of the amount of fans we have in the usa. Glasgow Rangers Champions 2010 53 and counting we are the people. oh and the OLD FIRM is a much better rivallary than the yankees and red sox it is the best rivallary in football and is probably the best in the world out of all sports.

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Originally Posted by caldo2806

ahahaha mate shut it baseball the greatest game invented lmfao its your baseball teams that want rangers and celtic to play at their grounds because of the amount of fans we have in the usa. Glasgow Rangers Champions 2010 53 and counting we are the people. oh and the OLD FIRM is a much better rivallary than the yankees and red sox it is the best rivallary in football and is probably the best in the world out of all sports.

Turns out the football teams came looking for venues in the United States. And as for the quality of the rivalries, well, isn't it wonderful that we're all entitled to our own opinions?

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am pretty sure it was a baseball team or an american company that proposed the idea to the clubs.

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The latest word is that Boston is competing with Baltimore to host this match. But let's get this thread back to the greatest sport, baseball. There's already an English Premier League thread, and if someone wants to start an Old Firm thread that would be fine.

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aye kl sorry if for being a dick over this haha

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Originally Posted by caldo2806

aye kl sorry if for being a dick over this haha

No apology necessary. I don't think there is anything bad about what you wrote.