I always find it's enlightening, entertaining and often quite humorous, to take a stroll through the InterWebs once in awhile and hear about teams and players you may not frequently see or read about in your own home market. As much as I purport to know just enough about a lot of sports stuff to spew unsubtantiated opinion around, one can never truly know a team, player or organization better than the die-hards who follow them day in and day out. This is perhaps most evidence in the case of baseball -- which stretches out over a 162-game campaign. This is all a long-winded way of saying we got a huge kick out of a recent post and quote via esteemed Kansas City Royals blog Royals Review. It's easy as a fan to find a single player to whom much of your frustration and venom is directed. Sometimes the burying of the player is warranted, sometimes it's not. Regardless, we could totally empathize with the casual suggestion made by this Royals loyalist in the fan posts section of Royals Review. We've included the title and our favorite excerpt below:
Can we Boycott Farnsworth?
by cmkeller on Apr 20, 2009 12:26 AM EDT 17 comments
"Is there any way, by internet and word-of-mouth, to get noticeable masses of Royals fans to exit the K whenever Kyle Farnsworth enters a game? Trey and Dayton can't possibly be stubborn enough to keep pitching the guy in the face of a full fan revolt, can they?"
Perfect. I love it. It reminds me of exactly how I felt with Armando Benitez during his time in Queens. Same with Braden Looper come to think of it. Farnsworth is another who seems to have that special combination of great physical tools, an intimidating mound presence and a consistent and powerful degree of flappability that is exactly the opposite of cool, calm and collected. This rare gift translates into a demonstrated ability to be the-opposite-of-clutch time after time causing fans from the Windy City to Motown to the Big Apple - and now KC - to cringe everytime the bullpen doors open and Mr. Farnsworth heads in the direction of the slab.
On a related note, how awesome would it be to see a player boycott? Unprecedented?
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