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I find booing your own team pretty lame. Suck it up. Be a fan.
I completely disagree. In any other workplace, if you do poorly, you get "booed" figuratively. You get written up, or talked to or put on a performance improvement plan. It is very, very difficult getting on a professional sports team. These are the best of the best. Sure, everyone has bad days. Players have errors, foul, etc. But when poor play is consistent, the amount of support and kudos can and should wane. There's only so many "aw shucks" and "maybe next year" some fans can tolerate.
I completely disagree. In any other workplace, if you do poorly, you get "booed" figuratively. You get written up, or talked to or put on a performance improvement plan. It is very, very difficult getting on a professional sports team. These are the best of the best. Sure, everyone has bad days. Players have errors, foul, etc. But when poor play is consistent, the amount of support and kudos can and should wane. There's only so many "aw shucks" and "maybe next year" some fans can tolerate.
On post#15 one eyed jack makes a good point about teams who haven't won a championship in 35 years, namely the Detroit Lions. Their last NFL championship was in 1957. 50 years without a Lombardi trophy has to wear on the season ticket holders. When Barry Sanders abruptly retired in 1999, it was no secret that he questioned the Lions commitment to winning after Wayne Fontes was shown the door. When a club goes that long and continuously make boneheaded decisions, the media and the fans are going to let them have it.
In Philly, sports fans are quick to boo a player if he doesn't hustle hard or whiffs on a clutch play. But they're just as quick to cheer him on if he does the opposite.
I completely disagree. In any other workplace, if you do poorly, you get "booed" figuratively. You get written up, or talked to or put on a performance improvement plan. It is very, very difficult getting on a professional sports team. These are the best of the best. Sure, everyone has bad days. Players have errors, foul, etc. But when poor play is consistent, the amount of support and kudos can and should wane. There's only so many "aw shucks" and "maybe next year" some fans can tolerate.
Even more reason to boo them is because youre paying their ATROCIOUSLY high salaries. If theyre not gonna play the sport on the level youre paying them, then screw em! When there is no effort put forth into a team's play it just makes it that much easier to boo them. Khabibulin gets booed all the time at Hawks games, he's given up goals that a 6 year old couldve blocked. You gotta voice your displeasure sometimes. And here in Chicagoland, were all too familiar with teams with record-breaking losing streaks. Ive fricking had it!
In Philly, sports fans are quick to boo a player if he doesn't hustle hard or whiffs on a clutch play. But they're just as quick to cheer him on if he does the opposite.
I figured Philly would be mentioned in this thread at some point. Philly fans are real fans, they demand effort for their money. Which isn't a bad thing in my opinion. Which is why guys like Bobby Abreu were not really well-liked in Philly despite his good stats....he's not hard-nosed and wasn't exactly a guy who would run out a ground ball or crash into a fence to save a game......while guys like Aaron Rowand, Jim Eisenreich, Jim Thome, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, etc etc have been Philly fan favorites since they play the game all-out and will push themselves to make big plays and they play the game the right way. Aaron Rowand ran into a fence and broke his nose to make a potential game-saving catch....I've even heard the New York media, since Abreu has been with the Yankees, say that Abreu plays the outfield like the fence is on fire...he won't go near it.
Abreu might bet booed in Philly, but when Jim Thome returned with the White Sox, he got a standing ovation. I'm positive Rowand will get a standing ovation as well when he returns to Philly this year as a San Francisco Giant.
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I completely disagree. In any other workplace, if you do poorly, you get "booed" figuratively. You get written up, or talked to or put on a performance improvement plan. It is very, very difficult getting on a professional sports team. These are the best of the best. Sure, everyone has bad days. Players have errors, foul, etc. But when poor play is consistent, the amount of support and kudos can and should wane. There's only so many "aw shucks" and "maybe next year" some fans can tolerate.
I guess the difference is that I grew up in an area without many pro teams. Therefore, we all grew up on high school and college sports. I wouldn't boo teams on those levels, and I guess I carried that sensibility to pro games, too. I don't get any joy out of booing, and could do without lines of drunk dudes behind me screaming expletives at their own team, as well. Just a matter of personal preference. I guess I'm down with solidarity when it comes to sports.
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But they're just as quick to cheer him on if he does the opposite. 
