I am by no means complaining, I'm just curious as to why this always happens. In Boston, whenever a player blows it. Whenever they ruin a season and lead us to our doom, the fans always seem to forgive them, or for the next season at least.
In 87 Buckner was well recieved by the fans, after making that error. (side note, do you know he had 2715 hits in his career?). Last year Wake gave up the homerun to Boone and no one has any hard feelings against him now. In fact, we are all far from it. We praise him at every chance we get. (read this article: http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSo...?articleid=771).
Anyway, aren't we supposed to be a ruthless bunch in RSN, not tolerant of mistakes and unwilling to forgive. Sure Buckner takes a whole lot of flack now for what happened, but not from me. That game wasn't truly his fault, and he was a great great great player.
What is it then? Why aren't we the stereotypical assholes that we are supposed to be?