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Booing Still Unacceptable
During today’s game (as of this point, it’s still the 6th inning), the Diamondbacks committed four errors. They were silly errors, by players who normally don’t make them. Let’s admit it, while these are not the first errors by Augie Ojeda, Mark Reynolds, Justin Upton or Stephen Drew, it’s also not normal for them to make this many errors in one game.
All these errors resulted in runs by the Angels. The Chase Field crowd started to boo. Mark Grace said he understood the booing. While I agree with Mark that it isn’t fair to the fans, and I certianly agree with the frustration, I do not accept the booing. Period. It you are going to come to my ball park and boo my team, stay home. I don’t care if the Diamondbacks are supposedly your team also, if you’re going to boo them at Chase Field, stay home. Period.
Booing Unacceptable
I know that fans of some teams seem to think that booing your own team’s players is acceptable, and even amusing. I disagree. I think that in general Arizona Diamondbacks fans have class and in general behave better than fans of almost ever other team out there. During the team’s 2007 playoff run embarrassed Diamondback fans were quick to point out the fans at Chase Field whose abherrent behavior in throwing items onto the diamond is probably all the National viewing audience will remember about the game. Even the announcers pointed out that wasn’t the usual sort of behavior you would expect from Diamondback fans.
With the team now having an extended rough patch I have noticed some fans at Chase Field booing our own players. This is not the first time and unfortunately will not likely be the last time. I’ve even heard a few players state they understand the fans booing. I, however, do not. I was embarrassed one day last season when a young man who had just moved into the Phoenix area hopped on to the same Red Line bus I was riding on after a game and mentioned how it had bothered him to hear some of the Diamondbacks players get booed by their own fans.
This is not Philadelphia or Yankee Stadium folks, this is Arizona and we do not behave like this here. It is, in my opinion, unacceptable to boo your own players and your own team. Yes, I understand the frustration; I’m frustrated myself. However, just because you spend money on tickets and refreshments does not mean you need to boo these guys. It seems like the better a team does the more idiots come out of the woodwork to criticize everything a team or athlete does; and the same is true of when a team is performing badly. They need our support. Most of these guys are trying very hard and are just as frustrated as the fans are and maybe more so. Sure we all want to win, but as long as the players are putting in the effort they do NOT deserve to be booed.
If you don’t like how the team is doing and feel it’s necessary to boo the players over it, stay home. We don’t need you out at Chase Field.
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