Death of the Boos

It is utterly pathetic that people in this town would boo Upton. I dont get it. The guy has a great attitude, and is an outstanding player.

The media and local fans should be embarrassed.

we don’t have to beat around the bush people if BJ was a white guy he wouldn’t get half the boos. He is percieved as the lazy thug and thus people don’t cut him any slack.

I think booing him in any circumstance – barring not running out a grounder – is incredibly disrespectful and short sighted. I am recently obsessed with sabermetrics, but this has little to do with strikeouts being marginally worse than fly outs. It has to do with a double-standard applied to BJ Upton having to do with image/race and a false perception about hustling because he has long strides that look effortless and he’s calm/cool/collected.

I am in strong favor of booing Dioner’s attempts to block pitches.

his labrum still isnt quite right i think and its probably because he gutted it out for this team last year, without BJ we dont make the world series

But your love for him clouds your views and actions in the opposite direction. He almost never receives significant criticism on this site and when he does there is always an excuse attached. it’s to the point that whenever you write about Upton I have to take it with a grain of salt because its likely to be biased. When he sucks you should be crapping all over him just like you did CC last year (prior to comments he made about not wanting to play CF).

And they have also booed Navi, Kapler, Kaz, Maddon, Percival..

Don’t ever call yourself a true blue, die hard fan of any team if you are going to boo them or anyone on that team for any reason. Yeah, I know, you pay your money you can say what you like. If booing the home team is what you do, that’s fine, but in my book you just lost every right to call yourself a supporter of that team. Nobody likes to be booed. These players work very hard at their craft, but even great players have bad streaks (some longer than others), but they almost always come out of them. And when BJ comes out of his and gets hot again, he’s going to remember those boos. Like the article says, when his contract is up and we want to resign him, do you think he’s going to want to stick with a fanbase that didn’t stick with him, or go to another city who doesn’t boo their players when they’re having a tough time. Just something to think about.

The player knows when they are stinking up the joint. Plus what can booing accomplish? It isn’t going to make the player perform any better. All it is going to do is alienate the player with the fans. All risk and no reward.

Although my tune when it comes to players being lazy is a whole different spin. I expect players to give 100%. So when BJ was “lazy” he should have been booed.

Although truth be told BJ is definitely not the only Ray to jog here and there. Every single player did the same thing at certain points. The only difference is certain people in the media singled BJ out which caused Maddon to act on it.