Why did Philadelphia boo an injured Ryan Howard? (Reading: live, prices)

[Phillyboy9088]

Maybe because Ryan Howard, who made $20 million this year, batted .105 in the postseason?

[FindingZen]

Originally Posted by TVandSportsGuy

But why not cheer a great season instead of booing???

With four all-star quality pitchers and a (theoretically) potent offense, there were high expectations to say the least. It was "supposed" to be a matter of not if we would get to the World Series but how many games would it take to win it.

[Lucario]

Originally Posted by TVandSportsGuy

But why not cheer a great season instead of booing???

Because losing in the first round of the playoffs isn't exactly a great season.

[rotodome]

It's disappointing, but never forget why everyone hates Yankees fans, thinking they're "supposed to win" every year. They booed Jeter a few times too.
I'd like to think that years of cheering for a losing team built better character in (non bandwagon) Phils fans.

Ryan Howard is great, and we're going to miss him and this group of players when they've moved on.

[phillies2011]

Originally Posted by TVandSportsGuy

But why not cheer a great season instead of booing???

what are you from the midwest or something?

The season was great and they got plenty of cheers along the way. There was NOTHING worth cheering about in that game. That didn't stop myself and thousands of other people from cheering non stop the entire game hoping to spur them on to victory.

Once the game was over people booed, and booed loudly. And deservedly so. Those in attendance(myself included) paid a lot of money and took time out of their busy lives to come and cheer them on, and we could not have been more thoroughly disappointed. It's one thing to put up a great effort and come up short, but to lose like they did was awful.

Fair or not this team was expected to win a championship. Or at the very least, compete for one. Myself and others who have bought hundreds of tickets over the years, watched thousands of games have put tons of money into this franchise and we are the ones who made the exorbitant salaries of these players possible. With high compensation, comes high expectations, and this team clearly did not meet them.

And so they were booed, not only because they lost, but because their effort was so abysmal, because they performed so below their expectations, and because they in no way earned the money that was paid to them(with very few exceptions). We booed because of poor decisions the manager made. We booed because of the mental errors that our players made. We booed because in a game where people need to rise to challenge, not one single hitter did so. Most of all though we booed because we for some reason care a lot about this damn game and our team thoroughly disappointed us and so we took out our reasonable frustration with a hearty boo, and yet you and others for some reason have to take umbrage with this perfectly reasonable response.

If there's ever a basketball season and the sixers make it to the playoffs, as long as they put forth a good effort I'll cheer them on even though they'll likely lose. But the expectations for the sixers and the phillies are on two entirely different planes and if you don't understand that then you're not a philadelphia sports fan.

besides what do you care? shouldn't you be racking your brain and polling the greater Philadelphia area trying to figure out how to walk a few blocks for a crappy cheesesteak?

[Angus215]

Probably because he's turned into Pat Burrell, part 2.

[pman]

Originally Posted by TVandSportsGuy

But why not cheer a great season instead of booing???

This seems like a silly question. You boo.because of the pathetic offensive showing. There was no fight in the phils. A great season is wonderful but more or less expecyed for that payroll. And howards takes the brunt because he gets paid 25/ mil a year.

[Angus215]

Originally Posted by pman

This seems like a silly question. You boo.because of the pathetic offensive showing. There was no fight in the phils. A great season is wonderful but more or less expecyed for that payroll. And howards takes the brunt because he gets paid 25/ mil a year.

this team is starting to remind of of the Bobby Abreu era. they act like they were all taking bong hits before the game. but the real problem is the way they try to hit the ball. they try to hit a HR with every swing, and never hit to the opposite field. i don't know if it's Manuel or Gross, but something needs to change.

[BPP1999]

Maybe because Howard is so much like the 2011 Philadelphia Phillies (and Mayor Nutter for that matter):

He had so much potential, but he's so terribly disappointing.

[gwillyfromphilly]

Originally Posted by phillies2011

Yea that or perhaps it was because that final out was the most pathetic sight in the history of sports. and for the record people were booing the fact that we had just been eliminated... i mean honestly, who would hear the boos and automatically assume they were directed at an injured ryan howard? We had just been eliminated from the playoffs, we can't boo? Also when he finally hobbled of the field, people actually cheered... even though obviously no one felt like it as we were just eliminated... but of course this act of kindness is ignored. only Philadelphia gets targeted like this. absurd.

I blame ESPN also for keeping the old sterotypes of Philadelphia sports fans alive. Whenever the Eagles are on Monday Night Football I still hear a reference or two about the whole "Santa Clause and Snowballs Thing".