Do I boo? I know I have booed. I am pretty sure I booed at the football game I was at last fall. I am also pretty sure I heckled Yale about a year ago. It felt good to heckle Yale but I really couldn't tell you what the point was. Why do we boo?
"In a place like Seattle, they say you're humble and nice; in a place like New York, it's phony and disingenuous. Same guy, nothing's changed." Rodriguez was incredulous when told that fans sometimes booed Schmidt the way they booed him. "Booing Mike Schmidt?" he said. "That's really weird. How can they boo Mike Schmidt" O.K. - here's the question that I have for you: is it the kind of booing where we want you out of here and we want somebody better than you? Or is it, we want you, but we want you to do better? It's a fine line between those two."Would I boo A-Rod? I would boo the Yankees, I am sure of that. But would I boo the extra boo that A-Rod gets booed?
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ry - March 11, 2007 8:32 PM
Would I boo A-Rod? Hmm. Maybe if he ended the series by striking out. Reggie, Mr. October, was an Angel in the twillight of his career and stank up the joint often. We didn't boo.
But NYC is NYC. And I'm glad I'm not a NYer(sorry gr, nothing personal).
portland - March 12, 2007 5:03 PM
i was at an expos game once and pregame i yelled at one of the dodger players. he turned and looked at me, would've signed something, answered a question, anything.
hey so and so, i yelled, yer a bum! all my pals laughed. so and so jerked his head back straight and kept going. sure he gets paid a lot of money to be the bad guy. sure i dont want him to win. but he didnt need that. i've never booed anybody since.
al, i even feel bad about that guy at the triple a game who i gave such a hard time, the guy who wanted to use wallach at first. poor guy. it's enough that he has to bear his own human stupidity. that's enough for us all.
i'm against booing a-rod. swing batter batter batter swing batter batter batter swing batter batter batter swing is totally different though.
ry - March 13, 2007 3:13 AM
That's not booing portland. That's heckling. I'm not much for heckling either. When I went to a Cubs game last year I booed Bonds every time he came to bat, along with just about everyone else at Wrigley that day. That's different. Heckling can easily get outta line. Remember Albert Bell when he was in Cleveland? Jawing at a guy like that is outta line. But simply and literally booing the opposing teams best player?
What's wrong with using Tim Wallach at first? At the end of his career he wasn't much of a third baseman anymore. what time of his career are we talking about?
He was family friends with the Townsends, a family I went to school with. He's an OC boy who made good---like Mark Grace(Tustin).
cm - March 13, 2007 8:47 AM
Back when Eddy Balfour played for Chicago (I think), I saw him play at the Gardens. The guys in front of me kept yelling "You're a bum, Balfour" and to this day I can't think of Eddy Balfour without thinking he's a bum.
ry - March 13, 2007 5:46 PM
point well taken ry.
tommy ? took over the expos and wallach was in the primne of his career. he had somebody he wanted to play at third and so just sent wallach over (if you can play 3rd, you can play first). he treated everybody like they were in the army. he was a horrible manager who didnt last the year and wallach was back at third in a month's time.
never cared for wallach. he could never get the big hit.
Alan - March 13, 2007 5:49 PM
Judging from the previous comment's font and cadence, according to scientific output provided by passing it through the font-o-grometer, it was authored by portland and not ry.