On hearing boos every at-bat: “I don’t ever remember that happening. But hey, man, that’s New York for you.”
Did you scale back interaction with the Creatures?: “Last night was pretty big. A lot of people saying a lot of things that I’ve never heard before. Prime example; I missed that ball in the lights and the next thing you know, I’m the reason that Jeter got hurt. It’s kind of frustrating. They were saying it was my fault.”
Lackluster salute during roll call?: “That’s the last thing that I ever thought would be in this ballpark, that people would get on you that bad. Especially your home, where your heart is, where you’ve been battling and grinding all year long. It’s just frustrating, man. You never want to be in that spot. It’s not like you’re trying to go out there and do bad on purpose. It’s just tough, man.”
Disappointing?: “It is. It hurts. Sometimes I’m a sensitive guy and some of the things people say, they get under your skin a little bit. I’ve been lucky to be here for the past four years, bro. We’re not going to go out like this. We’re going to go to Detroit and give everything we’ve got.”
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1. Rants Mulliniks (formerly Cold Prosimian) Posted: October 15, 2012 at 08:02 AM (#4270736)But Nick Swisher's effort in the field and on the bases just looks spotty. Last night, when he reached on an error by Infante, he played it like a jackass. He walked out of the box because he assumed his liner would be caught in the air. That was a bad read, it was going to be tough to play in the air. Then he started jogging when he realized there would be a force. Then Infante misplayed it and he started running. You can't be doing that #### in the playoffs.
On defense, he often looks half-assed. It might be whole-assed effort that reads half-assed, but sometimes the outcome looks so silly it's hard to trust him.
That thing that Ichiro does with every fly ball where he sort of runs around the ball and snatches it out of the air would look pretty nonchalant if he ever missed one.
"Often" does not mean every single play.
You really shouldn't do that anytime; run hard on all of them, because you never know.
It might be if it is a beat or two after the ball passes by you and if you could have reached it without diving.
Mind you, I'm not saying he isn't trying - I tend to think players get blamed too much for lack of effort. Playing badly LOOKS like it's low effort. But I grade exams - I see kids wrench themselves in knots and then score 27. Effort =/= success. But that dive he made at that one ball cannot, by itself, be used to justify his effort. The dive looked, to me, like he realized he'd wiffed so he better make it look good.
I said in the chatter, and I'll stand by it, he needs his eyes checked. He's missing badly at the plate and taking bizarre routes to balls and sort of stabbing at things in the field. I suspect his eyesight has changed a little bit and it's screwing him up.
ARod, Swisher, Cano, Granderson doing absolutely nothing. That much suck all at once has to be mental.
The funny thing about Swisher is he actually still looks decent at the plate while choking. I've seen the Granderson choke before (three straight hacks at breaking balls in the dirt), e.g. David Justice in the 2011 WS (2 for 12, 9 K's) and Alfonso Soriano in the 2003 ALCS (4 for 30, 11 Ks).
But the Swisher "look like you still control the strike-zone and make contact, but they're all easy outs" is a new one.
If it doesn't make sense boo when they suck up the joint, then it doesn't make sense to cheer when they do well. If failure isn't at all their fault, the they aren't responsible for success either.
Ray? Is that you?
What if you just think that booing is not polite?
I think the fact that MLB is a pretty parity-heavy league right now is part of it. There are no teams out there that aren't flawed in some ways and when those flaws get exposed it feels inevitable and frustrating.
OK. I just think it's part of baseball. Personally, I both cheer, and boo much less than the average fan.
I enjoyed parts of the season, as a Tiger, Brewer and Pirate sympathizer and Dodger hater. It's been very up and down. As for my actual favorite team, at least we had Erik Kratz.
Concur. Also, a flawed play-off team is fun when it comes from out of nowhere (e.g. A's and O's) but, when you're a favorite (e.g. Yankees, Tigers, Braves, etc.) and your team ends up worse than you expected, it's not so fun.
My caricature of Ray would argue that booing and cheering are only tiny sample sizes of a person's affect over the course of a lifetime, and therefore not worth noting. After all, is "cheering" a person's true emotional level? Is "booing"? If one cannot project cheering or booing going forward with any consistency then they must be cast aside as flukes of feeling.
Accompanied by the erudite Red Sox fan base in action, and a group of typical Braves' fans tailgating in the parking lot.
Oh come on. Red Sox Nation absolutely gives you more than ample opportunity to find photos of Sox fans acting douchey and the best you can do is a well known photoshopped picture?
This would have been better.
As a Reds fan, this season was hugely enjoyable up until Game 3 of the NLDS.
'The page you requested does not exist'....was it 2011 Red Sox playoff tickets?
As for RSN in action...you will never find a gif or clip to compare to the ten or so on youtube of the Bleacher Creatures tormenting some 12 year old with "Why are you Gay?"
For me all four of those links go to "Sorry, the page you requested was not found. Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you're having trouble locating a destination on Yahoo!, try visiting the Yahoo! home page or look through a list of Yahoo!'s online services."
Oh well, I must have done something wrong. Anyway, the first three were the same kid in varying jerseys (Manchester United, Carolina Hurriacanes and Yankees) and the one that would have been better...I just can't describe it adequately. Fat guy with "Yankees suck" written on his bare chest. Naked Albright would have been better to look at.
So does that mean the picture of the kid's legit?
Wit and classiness, as we all know, are regional. If only the thousands of these shirts could wave their arms and dance.
I've seen pictures of the kid in just about every imaginable uniform but I do wonder what's the legitimate one? It certainly wouldn't shock me if it was at a Sox game though my guess is it's a soccer game somewhere.
Montreal Canadiens fans are well-known for their booing of the home team when they are playing poorly (i.e. showing a poor effort). They are also universally acknowledged as the most knowledgeable fans in the league. I think booing the home team has its place, but in baseball its often misplaced.
I almost never boo my teams but I will boo the opponents and when I do that I actually do say "boo." It's dragged out though so it doesn't sound like you're trying to scare a little kid.
I will freely admit that I enthusiastically booed Bobby Valentine the last couple of weeks of the season.
Thanks!
I rarely boo, though I defend the right of fans to do so.
I usually just scream random profanities, either at the field or the TV, e.g. "You F***ing suck ARod/Granderson/Swisher".
I defy you to say that fast 3 times.
Luckily Girardi spreads them out in the batting order :-)
I was saying 'Boo-urns.'
Blame the Pants Pissers - although once confined to Sox Therapy, they have leaked out and infected all of BBTF. Except moi.
I've had a good time this season, and this postseason. Ichiro did that Matrix thing last round, and people I like (like Kuroda) have done a great job. CC's Game 5 was - seriously - a performance for the ages.
But negative moments make positive ones better. If my team joylessly stomped a series of anonymous opponents on the way to winning multiple titles, it would lose its luster and all run together. The first two games of the 1996 World Series, the despair of winning that series at that time, and the way it made me feel made the eventual outcome all the sweeter.
When I boo, it's a rumble from my throat. I don't think my lips move at all. I just kinda find the bass and fill in the crowd's noise like I'm in the Whiffenpoofs or something.
This is how I boo
[clears throat]
"BOOOOOOOO!
"I AM BOOing YOU, KEVIN YOUKILIS!
"B! O! O!
"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
[sips beer]
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