IGT 5/4 - Pirates at Mets

[metirish]

Yes and Lo Duca talking to Julio after the final SO like he was the closer, lets hope this keeps up, we'll need him in tight spots during the season.

[soupcan]

="Elster88"]If he realizes already how badly he is performing, and is beating himself up more than you ever could, what on earth is the point of your booing? Isn't it (booing) really just to make yourself (the booer) feel better at the expense of how the player is feeling? The two questions in that last paragraph (especially the first in that couple) is the one I'm most curious about finding the answer to. OTOH, we've had this back and forth before.

Yes we have beaten the crap out of this argument but I'll humor you.

If he realizes already how badly he is performing, and is beating himself up more than you ever could, what on earth is the point of your booing?

Maybe the point is expressing frustration and reminded the player just how blessed he is. The player is making $100 million no matter how bad he's doing. Average Joe is busting his ass every day to pay his bills. If Joe doesn't perform Joe doesn't get paid. If the player doesn't perform he still buys another Bentley in the offseason. I'll admit that a lot of it is jealousy. Fans think that if someone is being so well paid to play a game - no matter how poorly they play - that it is unfair, and this is how they express that. In the real world no matter how hard you work if you are not successful you don't get paid. Not necessarily so in sports.

Isn't it (booing) really just to make yourself (the booer) feel better at the expense of how the player is feeling?

Booing doesn't make me feel better or worse. It's just an expression. I for one think that if a player has the balls to sign a contract like that then he is making the statement that he has the intestinal fortitude to overcome any sad feelings he might get if he is booed because he is not performing up to the standards set by him when he signed that deal. If he doesn't have that kind of grit then too bad for his feelings - he shouldn't have signed that deal. He's still going to be retired by 40 and set up future generations of his family for the rest of their lives. Kinda hard to feel bad for a guy like that.

[Elster88]

]Kinda hard to feel bad for a guy like that.

True.

[Elster88]

Part of the post that got deleted is the one soupy responded to. So it will still live on forever in quoted form.

[Centerfield]

Hail!!!!

I mean, Super Hail!!!

[metirish]

ALL Hail the Super Seaver post....

[Elster88]

That picture scares me for some reason. I feel like he's about to throw a BB at my head.

[Elster88]

NY Times wrote: As Nady strode to the plate, Delgado whispered to Glavine that Nady would hit a home run. Nady clocked Torres's third pitch. It kept going and going, and landed 430 feet away, beyond the center-field fence. The television cameras flashed Delgado and Glavine, two cogs in the Mets' strong start, laughing in the dugout, laughing about another soon-to-be victory.

[metirish]

They were hugging each other, and then Glavine gave a sort of fist pump, like a hell yeah some runs to work with.