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	<title>Comments on: Why all of you horrible savages are wrong for booing ballplayers</title>
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		<title>By: schmedley69</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[schmedley69]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Booing is a form of expression. It&#039;s an outlet for fans to show their displeasure for a player or team&#039;s performance. Not all that different from a blog post that criticizes the performance of a player or team.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Booing is a form of expression. It&#8217;s an outlet for fans to show their displeasure for a player or team&#8217;s performance. Not all that different from a blog post that criticizes the performance of a player or team.</p>
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		<title>By: Gonzo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gonzo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#039;t be an apologist, Chris. Philly fans are so very angry, rude and obnoxious.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t be an apologist, Chris. Philly fans are so very angry, rude and obnoxious.</p>
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		<title>By: Gonzo</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gonzo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philly fans get their panties in a bunch whenever someone brings up throwing snowballs at Santa or cheering Michael Irvin. &quot;Let it go, already!&quot;, they say. Yet the fans never pass up a chance to jeer JD Drew and Scott Rolen when they return to town.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Philly fans get their panties in a bunch whenever someone brings up throwing snowballs at Santa or cheering Michael Irvin. &#8220;Let it go, already!&#8221;, they say. Yet the fans never pass up a chance to jeer JD Drew and Scott Rolen when they return to town.</p>
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		<title>By: thehypercritic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[thehypercritic]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a league absolutely filled with devout men of faith, the most demonstrative player who&#039;s made a habit of jumping up and down after every first down since high school just happens to choose an expression of that common faith which calls attention to himself and some people think there&#039;s a difference between what he&#039;s doing and what OchoCinco does?

I have no problem with victory dances and celebrations, I enjoy them, but cloaking his true intentions with the nonsense that it&#039;s about how much he loves the supernatural hero from his favorite children&#039;s book is absurd.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a league absolutely filled with devout men of faith, the most demonstrative player who&#8217;s made a habit of jumping up and down after every first down since high school just happens to choose an expression of that common faith which calls attention to himself and some people think there&#8217;s a difference between what he&#8217;s doing and what OchoCinco does?</p>
<p>I have no problem with victory dances and celebrations, I enjoy them, but cloaking his true intentions with the nonsense that it&#8217;s about how much he loves the supernatural hero from his favorite children&#8217;s book is absurd.</p>
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		<title>By: badmamainphilliesjamas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[badmamainphilliesjamas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Um, actually, you might want to check on what the players have said about Phils fans...mostly high praise, as I recall.

The constant bashing of Philly fans is old, tired and lazy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Um, actually, you might want to check on what the players have said about Phils fans&#8230;mostly high praise, as I recall.</p>
<p>The constant bashing of Philly fans is old, tired and lazy.</p>
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		<title>By: stlouis1baseball</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stlouis1baseball]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I boo Alfonso Soriano on a regular basis.  The guy just grates on my nerves.
Could be the gay little hop he does everytime he catches a pop fly.  I don&#039;t know. 
But for whatever reason (other than playing for the Cubs of course)...he just gets on my nerves.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I boo Alfonso Soriano on a regular basis.  The guy just grates on my nerves.<br />
Could be the gay little hop he does everytime he catches a pop fly.  I don&#8217;t know.<br />
But for whatever reason (other than playing for the Cubs of course)&#8230;he just gets on my nerves.</p>
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		<title>By: stlouis1baseball</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stlouis1baseball]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well stated Anxovies.  Two thumbs up!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well stated Anxovies.  Two thumbs up!</p>
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		<title>By: metalhead65</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[metalhead65]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am surprised you saber metric guys do not have a stat on how players perform when they are booed and how often they are booed. we need to see how this affects their performance so we as fans know who to boo and when to boo them.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am surprised you saber metric guys do not have a stat on how players perform when they are booed and how often they are booed. we need to see how this affects their performance so we as fans know who to boo and when to boo them.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Fiorentino</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Fiorentino]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And when I write OP I mean dcfan4life...I don&#039;t know why my comment didn&#039;t show up under his/hers but oh well.  Thanks for reading kalinedrive.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And when I write OP I mean dcfan4life&#8230;I don&#8217;t know why my comment didn&#8217;t show up under his/hers but oh well.  Thanks for reading kalinedrive.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Fiorentino</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Fiorentino]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s all a part of being put down by the rest of the country sir.  When you get as much of the unfair treatment we get, you can only take so much and you have to go on the defensive.  And when I read the moronic statement of the OP I had to comment.  Sorry if I offended you.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s all a part of being put down by the rest of the country sir.  When you get as much of the unfair treatment we get, you can only take so much and you have to go on the defensive.  And when I read the moronic statement of the OP I had to comment.  Sorry if I offended you.</p>
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		<title>By: natstowngreg</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[natstowngreg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 150+ Nats games over the last 7 seasons, I&#039;ve booed 2 people. One was Pedro Martinez, after he threw at several Nats hitters. The other was Joe West, after a particularly obnoxious performance.

But then, we Nats fans don&#039;t boo much. There was that period mid-last season when Jayson Werth was booed, but not much else. That may change as the front-runners start to return to the Nats Park.

What I find interesting is when visitors&#039; fans boo their own in our park. Victims have included Pat Burrell, Werth (as a Phillie), A-Rod (Yankees fans, 2006), and Tony LaRussa.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 150+ Nats games over the last 7 seasons, I&#8217;ve booed 2 people. One was Pedro Martinez, after he threw at several Nats hitters. The other was Joe West, after a particularly obnoxious performance.</p>
<p>But then, we Nats fans don&#8217;t boo much. There was that period mid-last season when Jayson Werth was booed, but not much else. That may change as the front-runners start to return to the Nats Park.</p>
<p>What I find interesting is when visitors&#8217; fans boo their own in our park. Victims have included Pat Burrell, Werth (as a Phillie), A-Rod (Yankees fans, 2006), and Tony LaRussa.</p>
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		<title>By: kalinedrive</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kalinedrive]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody pats themselves on the back as &quot;the most intelligent and passionate fans in the country&quot; as frequently, or with less reason, than Philly fans.  NOBODY.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody pats themselves on the back as &#8220;the most intelligent and passionate fans in the country&#8221; as frequently, or with less reason, than Philly fans.  NOBODY.</p>
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		<title>By: sleepyirv</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sleepyirv]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we sure they&#039;re not saying Boo-urns?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are we sure they&#8217;re not saying Boo-urns?</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Fiorentino</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Fiorentino]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;I mean if a player goes 3 for 4 with a home run and 4 RBIs but struck out looking with the bases loaded to lose a game, well then only Philly fans would boo him, and they do, all the time, always, for the wrong reasons.&quot;

Typical idiot from around the country who has no clue what the F he or she is talking about when it comes to Philly fans.  Philly fans are the most intelligent and passionate fans in the country.  We don&#039;t settle for anything less than a championship.  Period.  For example, all the morons in the national media who said &quot;Oh, you guys don&#039;t know what you have in Donovan McNabb.  You&#039;ll see when he leaves...&quot; Oh really?  He left, and McNabb sucked while Vick won the division his first year there.  And now...well, now McNabb is out of the league.  LOL.  Same thing is happening with Andy Reid.  All the national morons can say is &quot;He&#039;s a great coach...stupid Philly fans don&#039;t know what they have until he is gone&quot; And when he again doesn&#039;t win a Super Bowl in 2012 and is gone...when they win in 2013 with a new coach, will they give us credit?  Nope.

Yeah, Philly has it&#039;s share of obnoxious fans.  But so does every single city in America.  The only difference is the lazy idiots in the media and fans around the country just like to point out the Philly fans behavior without pointing to people getting killed, maimed and beaten up in cities like Chicago, LA and Detroit.  Shit, when Detroit and LA won titles there was rioting and mass chaos.  In Philly, we turned over a couple planters and broke a window or two.  But we celebrated the shit out of the Phillies and 2008 and there&#039;s a group of 25 guys who will never have to buy a meal in Center City again.  Even Matt Stairs is still beloved.  

See, what people fail to understand is that, when you get as high as we do in Philly for winning, you have to expect an opposite reaction to our lows.  Nobody celebrates victory like a Philly fan.  NOBODY.  But by the same token, NOBODY kills their teams for failing like a Philly fan.  NOBODY.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I mean if a player goes 3 for 4 with a home run and 4 RBIs but struck out looking with the bases loaded to lose a game, well then only Philly fans would boo him, and they do, all the time, always, for the wrong reasons.&#8221;</p>
<p>Typical idiot from around the country who has no clue what the F he or she is talking about when it comes to Philly fans.  Philly fans are the most intelligent and passionate fans in the country.  We don&#8217;t settle for anything less than a championship.  Period.  For example, all the morons in the national media who said &#8220;Oh, you guys don&#8217;t know what you have in Donovan McNabb.  You&#8217;ll see when he leaves&#8230;&#8221; Oh really?  He left, and McNabb sucked while Vick won the division his first year there.  And now&#8230;well, now McNabb is out of the league.  LOL.  Same thing is happening with Andy Reid.  All the national morons can say is &#8220;He&#8217;s a great coach&#8230;stupid Philly fans don&#8217;t know what they have until he is gone&#8221; And when he again doesn&#8217;t win a Super Bowl in 2012 and is gone&#8230;when they win in 2013 with a new coach, will they give us credit?  Nope.</p>
<p>Yeah, Philly has it&#8217;s share of obnoxious fans.  But so does every single city in America.  The only difference is the lazy idiots in the media and fans around the country just like to point out the Philly fans behavior without pointing to people getting killed, maimed and beaten up in cities like Chicago, LA and Detroit.  Shit, when Detroit and LA won titles there was rioting and mass chaos.  In Philly, we turned over a couple planters and broke a window or two.  But we celebrated the shit out of the Phillies and 2008 and there&#8217;s a group of 25 guys who will never have to buy a meal in Center City again.  Even Matt Stairs is still beloved.  </p>
<p>See, what people fail to understand is that, when you get as high as we do in Philly for winning, you have to expect an opposite reaction to our lows.  Nobody celebrates victory like a Philly fan.  NOBODY.  But by the same token, NOBODY kills their teams for failing like a Philly fan.  NOBODY.</p>
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		<title>By: yankeesfanlen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[yankeesfanlen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leave ARod Alone!  Glad I caught this.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leave ARod Alone!  Glad I caught this.</p>
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		<title>By: woodenulykteneau</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[woodenulykteneau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who play golf are elitist?!]]></description>
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		<title>By: Utley's Hair</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Utley's Hair]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#039;re bound to make mistakes from time to time, and that&#039;s all well and good.  But if they repeatedly make the same ones, that&#039;s boo worthy.  The strike zone is the strike zone.  Shoulder to knee over the plate.  The fact that pitchers constantly need to find different zones with different umpires is absolutely preposterous.  The fact that some pitchers need to constantly find the shifting zone with one umpire is even worse.

Now, those who inject themselves into the game for their own purposes...that&#039;s a totally different can of worms.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They&#8217;re bound to make mistakes from time to time, and that&#8217;s all well and good.  But if they repeatedly make the same ones, that&#8217;s boo worthy.  The strike zone is the strike zone.  Shoulder to knee over the plate.  The fact that pitchers constantly need to find different zones with different umpires is absolutely preposterous.  The fact that some pitchers need to constantly find the shifting zone with one umpire is even worse.</p>
<p>Now, those who inject themselves into the game for their own purposes&#8230;that&#8217;s a totally different can of worms.</p>
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		<title>By: mox19380</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mox19380]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am agreeing with a Mets fan but I feel the same way. Booing your own team is essentially condemning them to ruin.  Sure we hope a player is strong enought to ignore it but most people regardless will feel that added pressure of knowing the fans are against them.  It seems counter productive. You&#039;ve essentially conceded the game and assumed the role of hater.

As for other teams and players. I don&#039;t boo nearly as often or loudly as most Philly fans but the opposition is definitely fair game for being boo&#039;d]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here I am agreeing with a Mets fan but I feel the same way. Booing your own team is essentially condemning them to ruin.  Sure we hope a player is strong enought to ignore it but most people regardless will feel that added pressure of knowing the fans are against them.  It seems counter productive. You&#8217;ve essentially conceded the game and assumed the role of hater.</p>
<p>As for other teams and players. I don&#8217;t boo nearly as often or loudly as most Philly fans but the opposition is definitely fair game for being boo&#8217;d</p>
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		<title>By: cur68</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cur68]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You guys should check out the gol blog over at &quot;Golf Talk Central&quot;. Put you off golf for the rest of whenever. Comments section is nothing but a collection if blowhards trying to out elitist each other.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You guys should check out the gol blog over at &#8220;Golf Talk Central&#8221;. Put you off golf for the rest of whenever. Comments section is nothing but a collection if blowhards trying to out elitist each other.</p>
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		<title>By: dcfan4life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Booing an umpire, ref, or official makes sense due to the potential effect on a game. Booing a player makes sense if your booing for the right reasons. I am not going to name a steriod user but instead reference players like Milton Bradley, John Lackey, and A.J. Burnett. These players pushed the limits for big contracts and underperformed them quite badly. They then voice there displeasure with the fan support. Your getting millions upon millions and you stink and the fans cant boo you. You need to understand its your fault. And to everyone here that says booing gets into a players head, well thats just dumb. A player has 60 thousand fans yelling one way or another nearly every game of the season and if they cant handle whats being said and the boos then they never should have made it that far. Thats what being a pro athlete is. And booing is the right of any fan when its justified. I mean if a player goes 3 for 4 with a home run and 4 RBIs but struck out looking with the bases loaded to lose a game, well then only Philly fans would boo him, and they do, all the time, always, for the wrong reasons. Cubs fans boo for the right reasons. 100 years is a long time and when you pay for talent as they tried and get that result, well, id boo too.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Booing an umpire, ref, or official makes sense due to the potential effect on a game. Booing a player makes sense if your booing for the right reasons. I am not going to name a steriod user but instead reference players like Milton Bradley, John Lackey, and A.J. Burnett. These players pushed the limits for big contracts and underperformed them quite badly. They then voice there displeasure with the fan support. Your getting millions upon millions and you stink and the fans cant boo you. You need to understand its your fault. And to everyone here that says booing gets into a players head, well thats just dumb. A player has 60 thousand fans yelling one way or another nearly every game of the season and if they cant handle whats being said and the boos then they never should have made it that far. Thats what being a pro athlete is. And booing is the right of any fan when its justified. I mean if a player goes 3 for 4 with a home run and 4 RBIs but struck out looking with the bases loaded to lose a game, well then only Philly fans would boo him, and they do, all the time, always, for the wrong reasons. Cubs fans boo for the right reasons. 100 years is a long time and when you pay for talent as they tried and get that result, well, id boo too.</p>
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		<title>By: PanchoHerreraFanClub</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see booing as the nuclear option. I rarely boo unless I am in Philadelphia where booing is mandatory to fit in with the crowd (hey, they have been known to boo the Easter Bunny). There is a saying baseball that as long as you buy the seat and come to the game, you have the right to boo.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I see booing as the nuclear option. I rarely boo unless I am in Philadelphia where booing is mandatory to fit in with the crowd (hey, they have been known to boo the Easter Bunny). There is a saying baseball that as long as you buy the seat and come to the game, you have the right to boo.</p>
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		<title>By: nategearhart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello hyperbole, my old friend...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello hyperbole, my old friend&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like when columnists, usually Sox related [cough CHB cough] but I&#039;m sure a Yankee scribe has done it as well, talk about how &lt;i&gt;true&lt;/i&gt; fans will boo the opposing players, like Pedro, Buckner, etc, and instead they get standing ovations.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like when columnists, usually Sox related [cough CHB cough] but I&#8217;m sure a Yankee scribe has done it as well, talk about how <i>true</i> fans will boo the opposing players, like Pedro, Buckner, etc, and instead they get standing ovations.</p>
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		<title>By: xxakshunxx</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boo-urns]]></description>
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		<title>By: ptfu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Booing should be saved for truly douchenozzle-riffic behavior.  Think John Rocker when he first pitched in NY, Clemens throwing a splintered bat at Piazza, Pedro throwing down Zimmer.  Merely having Boras as your agent, or not re-signing with your team, or being A-Rod, isn&#039;t even close.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Booing should be saved for truly douchenozzle-riffic behavior.  Think John Rocker when he first pitched in NY, Clemens throwing a splintered bat at Piazza, Pedro throwing down Zimmer.  Merely having Boras as your agent, or not re-signing with your team, or being A-Rod, isn&#8217;t even close.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are usually only two times I ever boo a player:

1) They IBB someone. I pay to watch Jose Bautista have a few AB&#039;s in a game, not to see the pitcher throw around him to see Lind hit. 

2) Somebody makes a really stupid play. Or drops a routine flyball.

I really don&#039;t like when people boo when former players come back.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are usually only two times I ever boo a player:</p>
<p>1) They IBB someone. I pay to watch Jose Bautista have a few AB&#8217;s in a game, not to see the pitcher throw around him to see Lind hit. </p>
<p>2) Somebody makes a really stupid play. Or drops a routine flyball.</p>
<p>I really don&#8217;t like when people boo when former players come back.</p>
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		<title>By: shawndc04</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Booing has never made a baseball player hit or pitch better; it just makes them press.  I might boo an obvious lack of hustle, but never lack of performance.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Booing has never made a baseball player hit or pitch better; it just makes them press.  I might boo an obvious lack of hustle, but never lack of performance.</p>
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		<title>By: chadjones27</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh yeah, look at that. Totally unintentional. I gave myself a thumbs down for that one.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh yeah, look at that. Totally unintentional. I gave myself a thumbs down for that one.</p>
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		<title>By: scoregasmic</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[scoregasmic]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woah woah woah refs do not get 99.5% right...maybe 40% at the most maybe, I&#039;ve not seen 1 ref place the ball in the right place after a play this year.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woah woah woah refs do not get 99.5% right&#8230;maybe 40% at the most maybe, I&#8217;ve not seen 1 ref place the ball in the right place after a play this year.</p>
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		<title>By: badmamainphilliesjamas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[badmamainphilliesjamas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never Velveeta, unclemo, only provolone for me.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Never Velveeta, unclemo, only provolone for me.</p>
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