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I went back a few pages or so, to try to catch up in my blog reading and I found a gem from Jester, "Hey bring it Bandwagoners!!" If you haven't read it, you should. It is a GREAT blog!

After I read it, I realized there had been a few down votes and his blog was down to 50 some percent. I don't know if there is just some people on here that just dont like him or if possibly there are people taking offense to being called "bandwagoineers". If the later is the case, please consider this.

I'm taking some liberties here, Jester, so if I mischaracerize you (or THe DON) please let me know ( I know you will !LOL)

Here's the way I view "bandwagoners". They're new fans who WON'T listen to their elders (in this case, elder refers to a fan-elder not necessarily an age-elder). At any rate, what we have been thru (and some even more than me) is astounding! It isn't something you can define on paper or look up in a dictionary. It isn't something that can be written from one fan to another one one day and then that 2nd fans knows it the second day. It isn't even an experience that can fully be comprehended, only appreciated...and appreciated over a very long time. It doesn't happen overnight. It's a process.

It happens over time. It happenes over conversations where the 'elder'  tells the newer about the history of the game, the players, thru his own eyes. Thru the eyes of someone who was there. Giving his own, unigue perspective of someone who was on top of the world one moment and torn, the next. Thru the eyes and experiences of someone who truly had their heart broken, deeply, only to leave building blocks of memories of the tears and of the heartache for 'next year'. Imparting wisdom that cannot be gotten from the stats. Imparting the wisdom that will sustain you through the bad times so you are around for the best times.

The 'bandwagoner' fans DON'T listen to all these stories! It is extremly frustrating to give of yourself, only to find that the newer fan didn't stay around long enough to get his 1st Fenway Frank because he couldnt stand the loss..because he/she didn't listen while his/her elders were doing them a favor.

If you are a newer fan but DO listen to stories from elders, like being around a perverbial campfire, then I ASSURE you, it isn't YOU he is talking about. It is FOR you, that he speaks. Let them know you have respect for what they are telling you. And if they happen to say something that may offend you, you may want to cut them some slack. Most likely, they will help you even more.

The love of a 'Jester' or a 'Don' for that matter, is neverending to another fan..one who truly 'wants' to know about the Sox and we would be a sad sad  world if we didn't have people like that around..