Attention Red Sox Fans:

[A Black Falcon]

But they don't do this stuff for every other championship. The ONLY place you hear about it is Sport's Illustrated's "Order now and get a video of Team X's amazing championship season, a team themed ball, and a team chair. These are individually numbered, so get yours now. Plus you get 52 weeks of SI and the swimsuit edition." And they do that spiel for eveyone who wins anything.

And that's because the Red Sox are more popular than most teams, mostly... and because this is the first time in most people's lives that they've won. So of course it's going to be a big deal and, in this society we live in, overdone.

And I still stand by the fact that Padre fans have waited longer than Red Sox fans did. How does that work? Well, since the Pads have never won, it has been forever since they last won. So ha.

Then you've been waiting since the Padres were created as a team... it doesn't go back in time before that. :)

The Rangers have never won either, maybe they did when they were the Washington Senators though.

The Rangers were Senators II -- the expansion Senators. The original Senators did win once, in the 1920s, but that's the team that moved to Minnesota and became the Twins in the sixties (and has since gotten two championships in Minnesota), not the expansion team that started the next year or so that became the Rangers. So no, the Rangers have no wins in their almost-40 year history. Lots of those expansion teams don't have one -- the Expos/Nationals, the Padres, the Mariners, etc...