He was an A, now is a Yankee...does he really not get it? It seems if people dont like the yankees, they REALLY dont like them and therefore boo....

Gosh, I can't imagine how getting emotional about it in public could possibly make it worse next time.

KILL YOURSELF YANKEE SCUM!

Booing former A's who are currently Yankees is a time-honored tradition in Oakland. It's called getting Reggied*.

*I just made this up, but Reggie got an earful in Oakland back in the day.

edit: Oh yeah, and hanging in! It just doesn't seem to matter who the A's throw out there it's the same. The rotowire snippets on every A's pitcher seems to be the same--"Not great stuff but keeps getting results..."

I also don't really understand why people boo Swisher. He never badmouthed the A's and was traded as opposed to leaving as a free agent. He was great for the A's (unlike Johnny Damon who I will boo every chance I get ever). I mean, sure, the guy is a Yankee and therefore evil, but cheer him and boo the truly despicable Yankees like Jeter twice as hard.

I totally agree with #4. I've never understood why Indians fans booed Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez after they left. They both played great baseball in Cleveland, led the team to two pennants, treated the fans and management fairly, and both did the right thing for themselves and their families when they left. You don't boo those guys, you pat them on the back, thank them, and wish them well in their future endeavors.

Albert Belle? Well, he was kind of an ass. I won't defend him personally, but he was a helluva hitter. Feel free to boo him if you want.

and wish them well in their future endeavors.

Unless their future endeavors involve the Yankees. A's fans like to boo Yankees, there's nothing personal about it. As soon as he leaves the Yanks they'll stop booing him as A's fans don't dislike him or Chavez. I think you guys are taking this too seriously.

So will that Yankee blogger now call for a fatwa on Athletics players, too?

So will that Yankee blogger now call for a fatwa on Athletics players, too?

Can the average Yankee fan name ore than 2 players on the A's? I don't mean that as a slight on Yankee fans as even I barely know who these guys are!

I totally agree with #4. I've never understood why Indians fans booed Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez after they left. They both played great baseball in Cleveland, led the team to two pennants, treated the fans and management fairly, and both did the right thing for themselves and their families when they left. You don't boo those guys, you pat them on the back, thank them, and wish them well in their future endeavors.

Indians fans boo those guys because this is a NFL town and people have no idea how MLB contracts work. They think we should have offered them both $200 mill with 65 guaranteed and just cut them if they sucked.

Did Rickey ever get Reggied?

Did Rickey ever get Reggied?

Oh yeah, he did.

Booing former A's who are currently Yankees is a time-honored tradition in Oakland. It's called getting Reggied*.

Or Catfished, or Holtzmanned, or Campied, or Rickeyed. Or Marised. Or Collinsed. Or Home Run Bakered. Or Pennocked. To be an A's fan--from any of their incarnations--is to live on the precipice of your talent being sold or traded off to a bigger market team. It's in an A's fan's DNA.

You'll also know that you'll get a year or two on the tail end of a star's or quasi-star's career: Billy Williams, the Alou brothers, Kingman, Karros, Cepeda....too many others to mention. The yin and yang of being an A's fan. They are not booing Nick Swisher, they (we) are manifesting the insecurity that goes along with rooting for the A's. They are booing the inevitability of "Batting fifth for the [2016] Yankees, center fielder Yoenis Cespedes."

Swisher is getting booed because he is killing the A's. He's got at least 10 hr's against them and seems to have no problem driving in RISP every time he is at-bat so yeah he probably should get booed.

Swisher is getting booed because he is killing the A's. He's got at least 10 hr's against them and seems to have no problem driving in RISP every time he is at-bat so yeah he probably should get booed.

You ain't kidding. 11 HR in 38 games. An OPS over 1.000 (best among AL opponents) against Oakland. Damn right you boo the A's-killing SOB.

Booing former A's who are currently Yankees is a time-honored tradition in Oakland. It's called getting Reggied*.

The All Used-To-Be-A's-Now-Yankee team, by best season for the Yankees:

C - Wally Schang 1921 - 4.1 WAR*
1B - Jason Giambi 2002 - 6.7
2B - Mike Gallego 1993 - 4.2*
SS - Joe Dugan 1923 - 1.6***
3B - Frank Baker 1918 - 4.6
LF - Roger Maris 1961 - 6.7**
CF - Rickey Henderson 1985 - 9.8*
RF - Reggie Jackson 1980 - 5.8

SP - Catfish Hunter 7.7*
SP - Ralph Terry 3.7*
SP - Bob Shawkey - 7.4*
SP - Joe Bush - 4.2
SP - Herb Pennock - 7.5*

CL - Ryne Duren 1959 3.7*

* - career year
** - not career year by WAR, but I'm not passing up 61 HR
*** - played SS for A's, but 3b for yankees

unlike Johnny Damon who I will boo every chance I get ever

If you read this, I would like you to please start booing right now. If someone asks why, you know what to tell 'em.

When I was at a Yankees A's game at the coliseum Swisher got booed by the guys in front of me and I told my non-baseball fan girlfriend that I liked him and wouldn't boo him because he was traded rather than signed as a free agent. But if you are a casual fan and don't care that he brought us Gio Gonzalez (who I also wouldn't boo if he ends up on the Yankees) then boo away.

EDIT: If it takes that long of a sentence to decide booing or non-booing then people should be free to boo.

The All Used-To-Be-A's-Now-Yankee team, by best season for the Yankees:

My parents grew up in KC as A's fans (Mom named her dog Finigan, after Jim) and they both adopted the Yankees as their second-favorite team, mostly because of all of the A's players they liked who went to New York as soon as they showed any ability. This is a very good example of the Stockholm Syndrome in action.

My parents grew up in KC as A's fans (Mom named her dog Finigan, after Jim) and they both adopted the Yankees as their second-favorite team, mostly because of all of the A's players they liked who went to New York as soon as they showed any ability. This is a very good example of the Stockholm Syndrome in action.

You should have been taken away.

The All Used-To-Be-A's-Now-Yankee team, by best season for the Yankees:

Now make the All Used-To-Be-Giants-Now-A's team, by worst season.

My parents grew up in KC as A's fans (Mom named her dog Finigan, after Jim) and they both adopted the Yankees as their second-favorite team, mostly because of all of the A's players they liked who went to New York as soon as they showed any ability. This is a very good example of the Stockholm Syndrome in action.

You should have been taken away.

Naaah. Sold to the Yankees.

I was at Giambi's first game in Oakland after he went to the Yankees. THAT was some booing. Last night? Swisher doesn't know from booing.
And it wasn't just booing - there was a HUGE guy sitting next to me in the RF bleachers, and after Jeremy G. singled in the first, the Giambis were standing next to each other at 1b. HUGE guy started bellowing, "DON'T TALK TO HIM! DON'T EVEN LOOK AT HIM!" I'm fairly sure you could hear him in the parking lot.

Not to mention that this is his 4th year with the Yankees which will equal his playing time with the A's. So the fact that it took them 4 years to start to boo him is pretty good.

Now make the All Used-To-Be-Giants-Now-A's team, by worst season.

This is turning into a dangerously fun speculative exercise. Would Ernie Riles make this squad? Kelly Downs? I'm probably overlooking somebody obvious, but I can't think of too many significant Giants-turned-A's since 1990. Gil Heredia?

#### his phony ass.

Swisher is a clown, so I could see booing him. But they booed Chavez?

Swisher is a clown

If he stayed with those sad-sacks in Oakland he'd be a clown in a no-ring circus.

Instead he's a guy with no fingers, but one ring.