Oh the beautiful rights of spring.  Sunshine and baseball, the crack of the bat, the cheers, the boos, and the fly balls syringes I mean.

San Diego fans are supposed to be laid-back. Constant sunshine does that to people, we fight it here in Arizona all the time. Not today though, fans booed Barry when he was introduced and whenever he batted, caught a fly ball, chased down a single or pretty much anytime they saw him, but that’s ok.  I think booing is a part of the game, if you can’t stand the heat get out of the fire and all that hooey.  Throwing syringes is a step too far though.  In San Diego no less, where they are so laid back they are virtually horizontal, this is amazing. 

Even the Padres players were stunned by the classless reactions of their fans.

“That’s a little bit much,” said Giants enter fielder Randy Winn, ”If you want to heckle, that’s one thing. But throwing something like that on the field, that’s taking it a little too far.”

Thank god the Red Sox aren’t on the schedule this year.  If fans in other towns treat Barry the way the fans in San Diego did, we are all in for a long and painful baseball year.

Imagine if Barry was in the NFL what would Raider Nation fans do? Use a flamethrower?

Heckling Barry is great as far as it goes.  Throwing syringes is dangerous and stupid.  Let’s hope the less laid back areas of the country can show more class.