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Whenever Gagne gets back, I hope he realizes he has lost all credibility and should switch his entrance song.
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What the...
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]lurkey turkey hahaha
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I don't think there will ever be less discourse regarding booing, at least not on this site. Whoever takes this site over after we all die will still be carrying on this argument, making the same points on both sides that have been made here for years. Just with different player names.
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I thought he was a bit of a baby yesterday. His feelings got hurt, so he wouldn't wave at those meanies who hurt his feelings. ______________________ This argument boils down to two simple ideas to me: Pro-booing (booing fans speaking): You make millions of dollars to play a game. Get the fuck over it and ignore the boos if they hurt your feelings. Anti-booing (players speaking): I'm trying my best. Booing is not going to help. Get the fuck over yourselves and find some other way to express your rage and jealousy without trying to bring me down. _____________________ Both have merits.
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JA-SON isRING-hauSEN
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Bret Sabermetric wrote: The fans' job is to provide a background of rude, ignorant grunting noises to suggest that some anonymous and powerless people might feel differently. It's Beltran's job to figure out what these mixed messages mean. Because without this feedback he wouldn't know what to do the next time he gets up? He won't try to break out of a slump without the boos?
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I've never figured out how to do the chant (in my head) for a name with more than four total syllables.
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Soupy, everything you say is nice and logical. Probably is true for you. But seriously, how many of the booers are doing all that thinking? When someone is shouting "YOU FUCKING SUCK!!!" is he doing for the reasons you cite? I'd guess 90% of booers are doing it because they're pissed off that someone made an out, and are "discharging their emotions", as Bret puts it. From what I gather from Bret's posts "discharging their emotions" is a euphemism (read: bullshit) for "losing control of their temper in a fit of rage and loathing."
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]Not booing (which is my actual practice) is kind of lame and passive aggressive, doncha think? "I hate the way this player performs but instead of getting to discharge my emotions, I'll just keep coming until I no longer want to, and you'll never have a clue as to what I found dissatisfying about the experience." By all means, discharge your emotions. Increase your emotional well-being by decreasing someone else's.
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They might not be sure that they're in the frame, so they lean closer to each other?
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metirish wrote: I was going to mention that if you want to piss Elster off then call Jacobs Jake Monster...dude be carefull saying that you'll bomb a house, never know who's snooping on us. Good point. No bombing will be performed. My apologies to anyone who was offended. (Though if anyone was offended, they need to lighten the fuck up.) Reminds me of when Kevin Garnett went on a hilarious rant before a playoff series saying he was loading up the weapons, getting out the rocket launchers and chains and bats....and the media ripped into him for it.
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If anyone refers to Mike Jacobs as Jake Monster I'm going to bomb his/her house.
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All-Purpose 2006 Where Have You Gone... Former Mets Thread
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I don't think they would give up Cabrera for Nady, Diaz, and Milledge, but we should at least ask....assuming we can reach a long term deal with Cabrera.
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It's too bad that this discussion is going to get buried in the IGT Archives. OTOH, we've had this same "Booing - Yay or nay" discussion at least 50 billion times.
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]why the hell would fans of the team want to pile on this guy? Some loyal fans are saying "Hey, it's getting kind of old to keep cheering shitty-to-mediocre baseball year after year and finishing out of the money. Get your shit together already. If you keep spending money on players who can';t play, if you keep trading away those players who maybe can and hanging to those who definitely can't, and tripping all over yourself to pay them top dollar for underperforming, and charging us good money to see these fraudulent results, I'm going to find some more satisfying ways to spend my time and money. If you think the sound of my voice booing is bad, I think you'll find the complete absence of my voice around here even more annoying." ________________ Yep. Still looks ridiculous. (to me - I don't want to disparage anyone's feelings)
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="Frayed Knot"]First he goes out there with the bat, and then starts the 'Lemme at 'em' charge precisiely at the moment that he's grabbed by two sets of hands and knows there's no way he'll ever reach his target. I hate this too. The absolute definition of a pussy.
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Here's one reason not to get a new stadium. I'm not going to like telling people that I'm headed to Walmart Stadium. Maybe they can just suck it up and spend the extra dollars and not sell the name.
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If I had been there yesterday, I probably would've gotten sucked into the "CAR-LOS BEL-TRAN" chant. But I hope that type of chant doesn't happen regularly at Shea. Even though I think it's cool.
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] I think Edgy is beginning and ending with the assumption that booing translates into something very like "You suck, I hope you die soon, I hate you and I hate your children, and I wish you to suffer eternally." If that were the case, I can see where Beltran would feel all put-upon and victimlike and such. For many out there, I'd say this is what "boo" translates into. Didn't booing originally start with booing the villian in theater?
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Samuels is assuming a little too much authority with that whole thing.
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I had forgotten for a day that there was still a question about Zambrano's health. NY Times: ]Victor Zambrano threw about 55 pitches in a bullpen session and said he expected to start Sunday's game against the Florida Marlins.
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]Now, turn to the person to your left and say 'I love you.' Now turn to your right and say 'I love you too.'" How did this work? If they all turned to the left at the same time they would be looking at the back of the next person's head.
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Babe Ruth Mike Scioscia
