Ron DeSantis claims 'Red Sox Nation' has more passion than Florida sports fans
Ron DeSantis may want to Make America Florida. But he’s making it clear that if he could, he’d make Florida sports fans have the passion of those in Massachusetts.
During a Tuesday interview on Boston’s WBZ, the Florida Governor waxed nostalgic about his fandom of the Boston Red Sox when they broke the Curse of the Bambino (incurred when they traded Babe Ruth) in 2004. He described a devotion to the team unlike that seen in the Sunshine State.
“I grew up a Braves fan in the Southeast and then when the Rays came, I was in college, so I was kind of getting into them,” DeSantis said. “But by the time I was in law school, like, I was part of Red Sox Nation, I was rooting for them more than, you...