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Conan Disses Tampa?

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

After the Tampa Bay Rays upended the Boston Red Sox for the final wild-card spot in the MLB playoffs - mostly in part due to the Sox choking away a 9-game lead they had in September - Massachusetts native Conan O'Brien tweeted the following to Red Sox Nation:

"Remember Red Sox fans, they still have to live in Tampa."

That drew thousands of angry Twitter replies, to the point that Conan acknowledged it on his TBS late-night show on Thursday night.

"I want to apologize to all the people of Tampa for my last tweet. I'm sure Tampa is a fine place to live... if you're a mosquito."

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/en...apology-after-conan-o'brien's-insulting-tweet

Whether or not Conan was sincere, let's not forget one thing: he is a comedian. I'm sure even the most die-hard of Rays fans who have supported the team since it was known as the Devil Rays chuckled at either of his barbs.
 
Typical Conan humor. Many times, he makes himself and his own show the butt of this jokes in this 'put-down' fashion. People will get upset about the most trivial things. People need to lighten up.
 
Being that the Rays are based in St. Petersburg and the home field (Tropicana Field) is in St. Petersburg, I'm surprised, he didn't diss St. Petersburg, instead of Tampa.

drt,
st.petersburg
(24 miles s.w. of downtown Tampa)
 
But it's not the St. Petersburg Rays, it's the Tampa Bay Rays.
Conan just went for the easiest shot, plus there's the 140 characters or less thing. ;D
 
I guess it would probably be like right after the Super Bowl where the then-undefeated New England Patriots were upended by the New York Giants - at that point, Conan might have tweeted, "Remember, they still have to live in New Jersey." ::)
 
Lkeller said:
Typical Conan humor.
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...tho, in this case, it's simply a retread of Fred Allen's old line about California being a nice place to live if you're an orange. (Of course, Allen and O'Brien both came out of Boston)...
 
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