Only trans people I know are on CFC, so I don't get too much exposure to normal trans people (as opposed to crazy people on TV, etc). So on that note, no, you're not talking too much about it. In fact, I'd rather like regular reminders about the topic, whenever you feel you want to post something.
Ok, going to use this as a carte blanche to rant on a topic that means a lot to me but I highly doubt means anything tk even contre or cheezy. It really happened a few weeks ago but it resurfaced today due to a new development and I really need to get this kff my chest since trying to talk sports to IOT is a fruitless endeavor.
The first team I ever followed as a kid was the Boston Red Sox (the love probably started around 2000ish to be exact!). Even if I don't like it as much anymore, baseball was the first sport I really got into, and I have a lot of shirts and hats and other memorbillia of the early to mid 2000 Red Sox. For people who don't know or care about Baseball, they are a professional level team in the American Leauge, playing for the East Division. The Yankees-Red Sox rivarly is
the biggest rivarly in North American sports; and in a border region between the two teams territories, like in Albany, it is a huge deal. To get into the gritty details of how this rivarly formed is beyond the scope of this, but as a tl;dr the Red Sox and Yankees dominated the early years of the leauge. After their championship in 1918, the Red Sox traded arguably the greatest baseball player of all time, Babe Ruth, to the Yankees so the owner could fund a musical. This marked a downward spiral if the Red Sox franchise, combined with the start of numerous Yankees dynasties, in what became known as the Curse of the Bambino. After 1918, the Red Sox could never manage to secure a World Series, even after usually starting strong in the World Series, well, series. Hence, a curse.
In 2004, the real competition were the Red Sox and the Yankees. The Yankees were in their twilight years of a late 90s dynasty, and were easily the best team in the leauge at that time. The Red Sox had a terrible first half of the season, but won a lot of their later games after an unirthodox trading strategy which led to the team being called "the Idiots" due to how mismatched and untested the line up was. The championship game for the American Leauge, was, as typical as it was for the time, the Red Sox vs the Yankees in a secen game series.
The first game was initially Yankees blowing the Red Sox out, before an almost come back that never fully happened. Second game was even less close, and the third game was just embarrassing for Boston. The series became 3-0 Yankees, and everyone was writing off the Idiots. The 2003 Red Sox team was far better, it was argued, and they couldnt even beat the Yankees. Then the magic happened. In Game Four, it looked like the Yankees would win a hard fought match, but Boston scores at the last possible moment to force it into overtime, where they win. Game five was even more magical, going into 14 long innings (the longest post season game ever at the time.
Game Six, however, is the important one, the one I am even bothering to write about,the reason why the 2004 ACLS is remembered as one of the greatest series ever played. It was here when Curt Schilling, a pick up from Boston on,ybthat gear, would go down in the annals of Boston history. The Yankees were done playing around at that point; they were back in New York after playing three games in Fenway. Maybe it was a fluke, the fact that Fenway is a pretty odd stadium that Boston clearly has more experience playing on. But it was finally time to put those upstart Idiots in their place.
Schilling was injured in the foot when he played in the series against the Angels in the previous round; the injury was a decding factor in game 1 vs the Yankees when he started against them. Yet, they decided to play him. He was literally on a foot crutch the entire game, yet pitched the game of his life. I remember this game so goddamn well. His tendons started to tear through the stress and yet /he kept on playing/, his sock turning bloody red from the stress. Schilling was pyhsically limping when he had to move off the mound but /kept in playing/. He had to be pulled for the final inning, but even that shows just how determined he was to make sure the Yankees didnt geat the Red Sox yet again. It was, well, it was a special monent for me to watch, especially since my dad was a Yankees fan and I was watching it with him and oh my god honestly I'm tearing up irl even recounting this game which kills me for why I am writing this
So to finish the story in 2004, the Red Sox would win game seven in a 10 to 3 blow out, tobecome the first team in baseball history to be down 3-0 in a series to come back and win the next four. They'd then sweep the Cardinals in the World Series, with the final game being even played under a blood moon. The 86 year curse was broken, under circumstances that woukd had made Hollywood blush. The Idiots did it where no one else could.
And why does Curt Schilling and this bloody sock matter? Well, a few weeks ago, Curt posted some very transphobic stuff on his social media account, as his two cents over the North Carolina bathroom bill. And I can't lie; a part of my childhood died that day. That game meant a lot to me and just to hear him say that stuff... I'm literally crying its really hard to formulate my thoughts.
So, he had a job as a sports analyst in ESPN. He was fired over those comments, so that should be the end of that story right? No. So apparently ESPN aired their 30 for 30 special on the 2004 ALCS, and for whatever reason, they decided to completely omit that Game Six from that broadcast. Just completely pretended it never happened. To put it into context, itd be like doing a documentary on the Eastern Front and ignoring Stalingrad completely. Like pretending it never happened at all. It was the climax, the height of a fanbase's hopes and dreams vs the evil empire (yes that is what we seriously called the Yankees at the time, they were that undefeatable and hated) and it was just.... Not there.
Of course, this caused a huge backlash on social media, as ESPN is being accused of being too SJW and trying to rewrite history, and the frustration over the whole debacle has led to sone really nasty transphobia come from the fanbase and... Im getting too emotional over this now im going to call this acwrap on this post.
So um, thanks for listening over having one of my fondest childhood memories ruined after the fact. Really appreciate someone listenng, asits really hard to find an auidence that cares about me being trans and sports at the same time.
) and walked into my dorm and changed back into shorts. This is because I was planning on going to the school store to pick up some of that new Mountain Dew Pitch Black (I HAVE WAITED A DECADE FOR IT TO RETURN. IT BETTER WIN THE VOTE TO STAY >:c), and I would have felt awkward going in there in a skirt.
