Boo Birds

I've got to stop quoting Bill Simmons, but baseball is on my mind as the season ends and I rather liked this paragraph from a recent column about booing players on your favorite team, in particular the way Red Sox fans treat JD Drew. It's gotten so bad that team captain Jason Varitek has made statements asking fans to stop booing.

Here's Simmons' quote:

But just for the hell of it, let's say Boston fans took Varitek's advice. Let's say they cheered Drew every time he came up, and every time he killed an inning, they reacted like Little League parents and shouted things like "Keep your head up, buddy!" and "Don't worry, we didn't need those runs!" How long could that show of faith last before they turned on him again? A week? Two? Can you ask 35,000 loyal fans who are paying as much as $312 a ticket to sympathize with a $14 million-a-year guy who has killed more rallies than the National Guard? Probably not.

"Killed more rallies than the National Guard" ... that's just so wrong, but so damn clever.