Booing? Fine if the time is right...

What is wrong with booing if it is justified? What is wrong with saying that someone's job is on the line if you lose?

Honestly I think booing Roger Clemens last night was fine...

I think the Boss didn't say anything that wasn't obvious to everyone, including Joe, the players, the fan and the media.

Anyone who thinks the opposite is softer at heart than any Yankees fan should be because teh Yankees are all about winning and not about smoothing over uncomfortable truths.

Roger Clemens came back at the age of 45 and said I can be worth $28m for a season, I can pitch in teh post season and I can win it for you guys. That is quite an ego there and there is nothing wrong with that as long as you deliver. But if you hold out that you are worth $28m and then deliver what Roger has done this season you deserve to be booed. You put yourself in taht position. If he instead had said "give me $1m/year but if I deliver give me incentive bonuses that bring it to $30m" he shouldn't have been booed for trying.

If it had been Mussina being booed that would have been wrong. The money we are paying him is part of the deal we did in 2001 and whether we like it or not that has been a fair deal.

Booing A-Rod this post season is ridicolous because this year he has delivered the goods and has been worth all his $27m and more, he was as good as he and Scott Boars held him out to be 7 years ago...

Roger Clemens said "I'm still great and I'm worth $28m" so booing him is fair game

That is why I think booing Farnsworth is fair game but booing Edwar isn't.

As regards the Boss? Everyone talks about how hard it is to manage in Bronx but the Boss has bought Joe so many toys, so many 200 game winners, so many All Stars look at the line up!

Joe has always know that if you don't win it all in October it is a failure. If you sign up for that you know the score - nothing wrong with it...

Assuming we lose to the Indians we will have lost 5 of the last 6 post season series. That is not what you pay $200m to get,Joe knows that, Joe know he has been a failure given the premise when he signed up for.

Think of it this way, if we here at Pinstripe Alley are unhappy when we are about to lose, imagine how the Boss feels. He has every right to complain and I don't think it made the team any weaker. Probably didn't make the team any stronger either, but at least the old man got a chance to voice his frustration. I think he deserves that