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Phillies Fans Were All Over Fenway Park Just One Week After Dave Portnoy and Fat/Bald WFAN Hosts Said We’re Not a Real Sports City

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: May 15th, 2026 · 10:39 AM EDT

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Got a good laugh out of this one:

The crowd at Fenway is pretty lean tonight given the weather, but it’s impressive how many Phillies fans traveled. Pretty loud cheers for Bryson Stott being ruled safe and bringing home Bohm there.

— Charlotte Varnes (@charlottevarnes) May 15, 2026

I kept scrolling Twitter looking for reaction from Dave Portnoy, or fat/bald/convicted felon* WFAN radio hosts. But I saw nothing. Crickets. Didn’t they just spend the last week telling us how Philadelphia isn’t a real sports town? Because a Sixers team that nobody cares about was swept by the Knicks, and their fans took over the building. So we’re the worst, right? We’re no longer one of the big sports cities, allegedly.

Yet here we are on a Thursday night, the Phillies and Red Sox are both middling teams that recently fired their managers, and yet you could hear Philly fans all over the broadcast. There were entire sections full of Phillies fans. You could hear and see them reacting to the late Schwarbomb. And there were audible boos when J.T. Realmuto was plunked in the 8th.

Here’s what the Bostonian Portnoy had to say recently:

“The Knicks took your building over, took your face, put it in poop, and rubbed it around. You may never be able to recover from that! I am so sick of these Philly fans, acting like they’re a real sports town. If you can’t protect your home building, you’re not a real sports town.”

I am sure the Massholes will respond with something like “well the Red Sox aren’t that good, and fans don’t really care right now.” They want ownership to sell the team. Funny enough, that’s exactly how we feel about the Sixers! But we wouldn’t say some dumb shit like “Boston is not a real sports town.” Boston is one of the best sports towns in America. It’s a great city, too, really similar to Philadelphia. There’s a lot of history, good food, walkable, etc.

New York City, however, is a dump.

Carry on.

*The rule at Crossing Broad is that we only attack people for things they can control. You can control being fat and being a convicted felon. Just get on a treadmill and don’t defraud investors in a Ponzi scheme. But hair loss kind of falls into a gray area. Technically, you can’t control balding, unless you to go to Istanbul to get the hair plug treatment. Currently, we are “workshopping” our editorial stance on bald jokes.