Jeff Francoeur Returns To Turner Field: Will There Be Boos?

Finally. Finally, the Atlanta Braves fans can hear the words, "Now batting, Jeff Francoeur" and not feel obligated to scream and holler and clap and cheer for their hometown hero. Finally, the young ladies in the stands can tear off their Francoeur t-shirts and replace them with the screen-printed bleached hair of Nate McLouth. When Francoeur returns to Turner Field this weekend as a New York Met, I can't promise you that he'll strike out three times or hit into four double plays. But I can promise you one thing: there will be boos. Not simply because he's a Met or because of the apparently unwritten rule that you boo former players after they've left, but because we've been waiting to boo him for years. Atlanta is not New York or Philadelphia—we don't like to boo our own players.  We like to encourage them, let them know that no matter how worthless your playing has become, that you're still our boy and we will support you. But that ...