Sunday, April 03, 2005
Evolutionary failure
Yankees fans booed tonight when David Wells was pulled. They booed because they don't like David Wells. Red Sox fans also booed. They booed because Wells sucked tonight. Both teams' fans booing does not make sense.
The human race needs to develop another guttural sound to differentiate hatred from disappointment.
I recommend sticking with the 'boo' in cases of disappointment. The Sox fans, in this case, were right to boo Wells. He sucked. Boo! You suck!
Yankees fans should not boo. Wells didn't disappoint them. But they also shouldn't cheer...because cheering could be mistaken for 'I like you!' And even though the Yankees may have liked Wells in that moment, they do not 'like' him.
So, there needs to be a third alternative here. That alternative should be screaming a nasty word in German...SHIETZENHEIMER! Or, something to that effect--something that makes you think Hitler. That way, Sox fans could boo and Yanks fans could yell SHIETZENHEIMER and we'd be able to tell who's who.
The human race needs to develop another guttural sound to differentiate hatred from disappointment.
I recommend sticking with the 'boo' in cases of disappointment. The Sox fans, in this case, were right to boo Wells. He sucked. Boo! You suck!
Yankees fans should not boo. Wells didn't disappoint them. But they also shouldn't cheer...because cheering could be mistaken for 'I like you!' And even though the Yankees may have liked Wells in that moment, they do not 'like' him.
So, there needs to be a third alternative here. That alternative should be screaming a nasty word in German...SHIETZENHEIMER! Or, something to that effect--something that makes you think Hitler. That way, Sox fans could boo and Yanks fans could yell SHIETZENHEIMER and we'd be able to tell who's who.
