Let’s be honest, country music is terrible. Tonight, Kenny Chesney gave me yet another reason to blindly dislike an entire genre of music.
Former Red Sox first baseman Kevin Millar tweeted the picture below of himself, Secretary of State John Kerry, actor Mike O’Malley and country music star Kenny Chesney all sporting Red Sox gear at Fenway Park for game six — well except for Millar, look at the hair. Kerry and O’Malley are Massachusetts natives, Millar was on the 2004 World Series championship team and Chesney, well, he’s just a guy who’s from Tennessee wearing a Red Sox hat at a World Series game.
In fact, Chesney was born in Tennessee, he graduated from Gibbs High School in Corryton, Tennesse and attended college at East Tennessee State University.
Chesney apparently became a Sox fan while watching “This Week in Baseball” as a kid. At least, that’s what he told the Boston Herald.
The Sox are World Series champions and it’s fans like Chensey, from Tennesse or Severna Park or Dover, that will be back in full force at Camden Yards in 2014.
They should just change their name to Boston Bandwagoneers.
Isn’t Chesney gay?
What an informative article. I’m glad to know where you stand on the genre of country music – I think all sports reporters should be so forthright with their musical influences. Though unrelated to music genres, I prefer band wagoners to haters myself.
Speaking of haters, maybe you should go get your sports feed somewhere else. This is a great site with great writers. They write to inform as well as to strike up conversation. Haters need not reply.
Word, Sandy, word.
Kind of like how Mark Teixeira grew up a Yankees fan and wore his Yankee hat to Camden Yards.
I think he literally meant “this week.”
Red Sox “fans” are going to be absolutely unbearable next season. Like roaches, they’ll crawl out from everywhere… with their tales of questionable connections to the team.
OK, I get it: they went worst to first in 2013. Now it’s the Orioles’ job to start them on their journey from first to worst, starting on March 31, 2014.
Why so crotchety?
Zach… Zach… Zach… My nephew born to my best friend… I have to jump on your case about a comment you made… And this is like the first time I’m getting on you… Country music is great… It’s songs about me, songs about loving and living and good hearted women and family and God… Listen to it for awhile and you will see… Check out “Kiss My Country Ass” and “Boys Round Here” by Blake Shelton. Listen to the lyrics… I’m disappointed in you that you would jack slap my country music…
Or he could have, you know, been a Red Sox fan for years, as evident in this 2008 article where he says the same thing. Haters. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20212810,00.html
So Chesney was a Sox fan in 2008 — after they won two World Series in four seasons.
Oh, thanks for pointing this out. So Chesney has been a fince since WAY BACK in 2008. Man, that’s nearly FIVE years! Gee, we should have never jumped on him. He’s been a fan for a very looooooong time!
Is that all you’ve got!