With me Kirk you have cemented your reputation of a typical “Boston Hack” aka as a yellow press reporter, why don’t you just go to work for Rupert Murdoch, he loves those low life writers that are in the Super Mkt Scandal Sheets, that’s where you belong, I promise I’ll never read you again.

I totally agree!

Wrong.  It was a big mistake to boo an injured player.  It should never be done.  And by doing it, it’s adding to the idea that Boston is a bad destination for a player, something that could hurt the franchise for years.  Only a very short time ago, Boston was considered a great place for a player to be.  When Jason Bay left, he didn’t want to leave.  Victor Martinez loved his time here and wanted to stay.  Adrian Beltre loved his time here and wanted to stay.  The emphasis was on the tremendous support players got and the fact that there was a full house at Fenway every night.  Look how all that has changed.  By creating an environment where players don’t want to be – and that environment is created by the mess in the front office, by having the manager call out a player like Kevin Youkilis who busts his balls with every single pitch, by having fans boo injured players, and by having sites like these attract commenters that want to get rid of any player who enters a slump.  David Ortiz would have been gone years ago had the blog commenters and radio talk show callers had their way.  And Clay Buchholz would have been demoted to the minors earlier this year rather than being allowed to end his slump at the big league level.  The Sox would have zero chance to make the playoffs without Clay.

Dude!! What is up with all the Minihaters? This guy cant print two words without a bash party. Beckett isn’t a fat, useless malcontent all the sudden? Have you watched this guy pitch the past two years? Hate on something inaccurate kids and get your friggen heads together. And Doug, “aka” stands for also known as, so you don’t have to follow it with the word as, you moron. Please watch a youtube video on how to write a sentence before making your comments public. This is why America is last in everything.

fans should boo themselves for paying money to watch these overpaid bums !

You are one complete moron for even posting this .This is why Boston is what it is ..people like you.
Go find a hole and sliver out every once and awhile to see there is a world outside yourself.Azzhole.

I would have been booing, too, had I been there.

So I guess we won’t be seeing your intelligent comments here eh?  What a devastating loss to the readers.  Sad day indeed.  PLEASE reconsider Dougie.  You WILL be missed. I for one am shattered.  

Pay them and they will come.

Hey there’s a plan!  Sheer genius.

Yeah.  What HE said.   Whoever “he” is.

This is a tough one. Hard to agree with the fans for booing an injured player and at the same time it’s hard to fault them. Beckett has zero currency and those boos were the culmination of a years worth of frustration. Not much to say about it, “it is what it is”

When you say “we’re told” Beckett doesn’t care, who’s “telling” us?

The media.  They — and — particularly reporters like you, have done more to create this impression of Beckett the pariah than Beckett himself.

I couldn’t agree with Kirk any more on this one.  He’s just writing what we are all thinking.  Beckett is a bloated, overrated D-Bag who doesn’t give a crap about anyone but himself.  He does that ridiculous interview with Braford and whines that he’s not wanted, blah blah blah and then basically gives the fans the finger by leaving the game with a little back discomfort.  The fans should boo his a** off the field and they should boo the owners and gm off the field as well.  To not jettison his trouble making, poor example butt off the team just shows the ownership of this team is completely out touch with their fan base and refuses to recognize that Beckett’s stuff is in free fall and his attitude is getting worse by the day.  Do they really think things are going to be any better the next 2 years?  They can’t be that dumb or oblivious can they?

Sorry Kirk but that is just low. I dont care how much someone has frustrated and upset you, you dont kick them when they are down. It just isnt right. Show some class.

 It just goes to show the true nature of the generic “fan”.

Josh Beckett, 2 words, “You Suck”, nobody likes you except your buddies Larry, Ben and Robert Bradford. The team is better off, you in the disable list!!

Troll

“cry me a river” Is Chubby cheek pitcher getting his feelings hurt, by the fans booing him!! I make millions of dollars sitting around eating Fried chicken and drinking beer with my bed buddies Lackey and Lester. “Whahhhh” Take a z-pack(6-pack) so your back gets better Over-rated, Over-paid cry baby.

I was under the impression Beckett had the best ERA of the Sox rotation last year. I hate Minihane’s writing because he seems to think he speaks for all of us with his outlandish opinions. I don’t see how he can keep putting all the blame on Beckett for last September and this year. No one would’ve booed Lester if he came out of a game with an injury? I would! Lester is a whiney cry baby. Lester wants to be treated like he’s Tom Glavine in his prime, when he pitches more like Steve Avery

Amen, Kurt. Nobody can really agree with a nandy-pandy like DOUG can they? There is nothing in this article, Doug that is even close to inaccurate.

Beckett is fat, out of shape, and useless. Glad we still think Beckett is the 2007 version. Oh that’s right I forgot we are taking the Duquette and Chiarelli mentality with Beckett leading the league with 10 quality starts. “More days in first place”,Only team to make it to the second round then anybody else”
Kirk keep up the good work.

Fans have THE RIGHT to boo, but that does not mean it IS right!

It is time to dump Beckett. I think he is the bad apple in the clubhouse.He is always hurt or playing golf. I also say give Bigpapi a 2 year contract. He is the only one giving 100 percent. He is carring this team. Let him end his career in a red sox uniform not a yankee one.
The sox have one good run left in them.
GO SOX

Fans pay a lot of money to go to games.  Josh Beckett gets a lot of money to perform.  Fans don’t have a right to try to do anything physically damaging to anyone, but they do have every right to be vocal about their pleasure when someone satisfies their love of the game and their displeasure when they don’t.  Beckett has underperformed his worth for a considerable part of his contract and deserves all the criticism he gets.  He makes excuses when things don’t go right.  Perhaps some people are too hard on him, but he appears to bring it on.  If he had more of an attitude that people are paying a lot of money to see a good performance and feels an obligation to win and contribute, I suspect there would be a lot less venom coming his way.  Compare the Sox and the Patriots.  Fans seem more tolerant of Patriot failures because there is never doubt about the effort put out.  That cannot be said of what we see from Beckett.  Sometimes its there, often it is not evident.  He had a great start the other night, then “got a bad back”!  What’s up with that?  Work out properly and things like that are far less likely to occur.  Or is he too old already and washed up?  Too bad we’re stuck with his contract.  There have to be others who are more hungry to play the game.
 

nicely put. you hit the nail right on the head.

Thanks Kirk for putting into words exactly how I (and I think much of RS Nation) feel.  I appreciate what Beckett did in ’07 and he gave us a couple of good years, but he is an arrogant entitled jerk who isn’t delivering and working to his potential and that attitude deserves to be booed anytime.

Well said

I couldn’t have said it better!