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Related: About this forumWelcome to New York, Frankie!
Restless Mets fans won’t stop booing Francisco Lindor
https://nypost.com/2021/04/28/restless-mets-fans-wont-stop-booing-francisco-lindor/?utm_source=email_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
Less than a month after signing a 10-year, $341 million extension with the Mets, Lindor’s honeymoon with the fan base appears to be over as he was the subject of more boos during a 1-0 loss to the Red Sox at Citi Field.
Lindor went 0-for-3 with a walk and two strikeouts, sinking his batting average to .203 (14-for-69) through 19 games. There were boos after each strikeout Wednesday: enough to hear it in the third inning and then a much louder chorus in the sixth from the sellout crowd of 8,051.
“It’s interesting and it’s funny and it sucks,” Lindor said before Wednesday’s loss, reacting to hearing the boos for the first time the night before. “It doesn’t feel right, for sure. Interesting, because this is the first time that it happened in my career, and funny because I’m getting booed and people think I’m gonna go home and think about why I’m getting booed. I get it. They’re booing because there’s no results. That’s it. They expect results, I expect results and I get it. It’s part of the job.
“I just hope they cheer and jump on the field when I start hitting home runs and start helping the team on a daily basis a lot more than I’m doing right now.”
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Welcome to New York, Frankie! (Original Post)
Diamond_Dog
Apr 2021
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luvs2sing
(2,234 posts)1. It's good for the character.
And I’ve been a Frankie fan since he was in the minors.
brush
(59,420 posts)2. Too bad. Should've stayed with my Tribe. He'll come around though.
Diamond_Dog
(36,473 posts)3. All of a sudden, he's facing a lot of pitchers he's never seen before.
I think he’ll come around, too.
Nikossitti
(332 posts)5. Nothing in the world I'd have liked better
Nothing better than for Frankie to stay with our Tribe, but unfortunately, baseball is all business.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)4. I'm just agog at the salaries of these folks.
Yes, I understand that they have a shorter career span, but WOW, $341,000,000 over 10 years.
How much did Babe Ruth get paid?
brush
(59,420 posts)6. Don't feel bad for the Babe. He got paid way more than anyone else.
His top salary with the Yankees was $80,000—huge in those days and more than Pres. Hoover.
When told this, Ruth famously said: "But I had a better year than he did."
And of course he did. Most had better years than Hoover.