If my team that's sposed to be centered around 'speed n defense' plays slow, shitty defense leading to an inside-the-park homerun off errors, I will boo. A lot. But if it's just one error that leads to one run and it's not that massive of a bonehead mistake, I won't boo. Unless it's Ray Durham. I dislike Ray Durham...

i can definitely see the seagulls becoming a fixture in late innings this year

I voted yes - but not to boo (non-Benitez) individuals, but to boo the TEAM, playing bad. And mostly, by extension, the crack management team that assembled it.

I'm fine with booing Giants players so long as they suck. I don't think I've actively heckled a Giants player - at least while they played for the Giants. I was living in Chicago when Neifi Perez went to the Cubs, so when I was at Wrigley, I may have said a few choice words about his skills.

Actually, once I went to a game between the Giants and Diamondbacks - I think it was 2001 - that went 18 innings, and the Giants lost 1-0. In extra innings, I snagged a seat in the right field arcade as the place was starting to empty out. Around the 15th inning, I loudly offered to pay Marvin Benard a dollar to hit a home run. He laughed. It was too good-natured to really be heckling, though.

I booed Deion Sanders when he was playing with the Giants at the same time he left the 49ers for the Cowboys. He could have waited 3 days til the end of the season.

There has to be accountability for the crap that the Giants are putting out on the field this year. Since Sabean and McGowan don't take the field, we can't boo them. But heckling Rich Aurilia or Dan Ortmeier because they have no business being starting first basemen isn't within my interest. The guys in charge need to know we don't approve. Boo everyone over 30, every time they're announced? We can still cheer when they perform well. And shout words of encouragement every time Velez or Lewis makes an error? I don't know how to convey that I want a real rebuilding effort through booing.

I was at a Giants game in the Polo Grounds, 1952, the year after Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run. Thomson came to bat with the bases loaded and one out. He hit into a 6-4-3 double play and was loudly booed. The next time up, with the bases empty, he lined a double high off the left field wall and got another chorus of boos. When I asked the particularly vehement guy sitting next to me why he was booing Thomson for hitting a double, he snarled back, "Why didn't the son of a bitch hit one the last time, with men on?" I remember thinking in 1958, when the Giants moved West, how much better off the players would be with San Francisco fans than with the ones in New York.

Don't boo the players. Not Bengie Molina's fault management is asking a #7 hitter to hit cleanup or Dave Robert's fault management is asking a man with gray hair to leadoff. Don't boo Sabean, because he would've gotten rid of Bonds years ago if it were upto him and built the system the right way, by "spending money" on prospects.

Boo Larry Baer. If I hear that guy get on the radio and talk about the fans' optimism (almost 3 million tickets already sold!!! The people are fired up!!!!!) on more freakin time, I'm going to come through my radio. Hey Larry - read the blog. We're not optimistic. Go to Costco, look around. Go to stubhub, look at the prices. In 2 months, try to find a scalper on 3rd St. BOOOOOOOO!

Sitting peacefully or cheering for incompetence accomplishes little when a team is in Franchise Free Fall. And I'll argue that overall fan passivity at AT&T is one reason the Giants have underperformed since 2005.

Like Goofus says, sometimes it's easy: Booing a bozo like Blownitez became a popular art form. Others, like Bonds at the plate or Omar in the field, are off-limits. But there's been a whole lotta gray and bland sprinkled liberally all over the park for many seasons now.

Sabean finally took action because of the outcry against Armando, and dumping him turned out to be a team highlight in the otherwise dismal year of 2007. Thank the baseball gods for vocal and dispeptic fans, say I.

If booing an unproductive Aurilia -- a guy we couldn't wait to get rid of in 2004 -- helps to motivate the front office to action or Bochy to make a change, I'll increase the decibel level.

Besides, I don't have the arm to hit the owner's box with a sloppy Cha Cha Bowl.

But I very much believe in booing the management of my team when they are so clearly screwing up and lying about it to boot. If we boo the team as a whole for being bad and not individual players for specific bad plays then we are doing on of the only two things we can do to show management that we are not buying the BS they are trying to sell. The other option is to voice our outrage with our dollars. i plan on doing both. i will be at far fewer games and I will be booing the team as a whole as much as possible.

but never a kid

I do reserve the right to "Boo" though. A player blatantly dogging it, terrible ump calls, that kind of thing. I have been know to heckle opposition players . Especially when I was younger. But nothing from their personal life though, only inside the lines stuff is fair game. I also brought up if the other side makes a great play you tip your hat as well. Just no were near as loudly as a good Giants play however.

As for Aurilia last night I think we expect more scrappiness out him then last nights play. Its how he won our regard in the 90’s when he came up. No one confused him for an elite level SS but we all felt he would do every thing and anything to help the team walk a way with a win. Last night seemed at odds with that.

Brian sucks. Brian sucks. Brian sucks.

Not booing Aurelia because it isn't his fault is like not booing Sabean because Magowan and Baer make the rules. It would be great if every time every sub-MLB Giant screws up the chat was Brian sucks.

If you need to dis the Pres, do it like the way they used to do that listless "Dar-rel" chant for Strawberry:

Peeeeter. Peeeeter. Peeeeter. Peeeeter.

And Baer can get the same treatment: Larrr-rry. Larrr-rry. But I think Baer is too obscure for that to catch on despite his half-billionaire swagger -- arrogance that makes his whipping boy Bonds look like a whipped boy. Let's not talk about his total baseball dumbitude.

It is only about marketing and cornerning the market on Mission Bay for these guys. If you think they care about this baseball team, you are so 2000. They have moved on. Moved. On.

I feel like I performed a heroic civic duty during the great boo-athon of '78. If 60,000 really unhappy fans hadn't made Candlestick a profoundly unpleasant place for everybody in the organization for weeks on end in November and December (3 hours of Joe Must Go! -- I'm talking heroic, if we hadn't fed off our own energy, no way we could have kept it up), no way does Eddie D fire the guy who convinced him to come into the NFL in the first place (Joe Thomas) and bring in Bill Walsh. Yeah booing! Magic elixir that turned the worst organization in the sport into its greatest! Can't say the alchemy will work as well for the '08 Giants, but we can't tell if we don't try.

Of course I boo. But there has to be a good reason. Aurilia was asleep, the Giants were playing Little League ball. I booed.

It's a new era for Giants baseball. Maybe now I'll boo with an accent.