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I've been known to get popcorn and peanuts thrown at me when my family (diehard Red Sox fans) are at a baseball game and they're all screaming at the umpire and I'm defending him.
Frankly, as for MLB, maybe because I knew or know enough of them from my days in pro ball...it makes it pretty hard for me to boo and or yell at them. Its always easier to yell at a stranger than someone you lived and traveled with for 6 months, or who was in your umpire class, or was in the same minor league as you or was your teacher/mentor at umpire school and after.
In all my time in pro ball there was only 1 guy who I couldn't stand and in whom I found no redeeming qualities...we nearly came to blows one spring...but while I hope to God he doesn't get promoted from the reserve list ahead of some other persons on that list...I still can't bring myself to boo him.
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